Monday, July 04, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Wednesday, June 08, 2011
23 May 2011
Gay Talese writes about failure. And what about failure? Why can't we celebrate it?
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We woke up and half the tree had fallen. Not just a limb, but a massive branch with its own limbs and foliage, a mini tree lay on its side like a sunbather looking up at us. We had coffee on the porch and watched John chop it up with a machete.
It's raining now and the air is crystal. From the porch, through a picture frame of tree branches we can see the pastel colours and sharp outlines of downtown Freetown across the bay.
On the speakers, PJ Harvey is scratching out an angry nostalgia about England and I wonder if I will ever be at home there. Will it always be a surreal mix of sunny childhood and family stories, mixed-up with memories of TV shows and old songs. Will I always have to pretend?
I spent last week in Makeni, a town in the middle of Sierra Leone where a huge iron ore mine hopes to level the surrounding mountains and develop the country with smiling promises. Photographing for an NGO, I take pictures for people who will never come here, to show them how the project is changing lives. We intrude on the project's 'beneficiaries', people just busy going about living their lives. We make them do things they were not in the middle of doing. Can you sit over there and wash some clothes? Can you chop up some food? Can you look sad? Can you look happy? Can you give us your story? Can we feed your story to our hungry donors?
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Gay Talese writes about failure. And what about failure? Why can't we celebrate it?
*
We woke up and half the tree had fallen. Not just a limb, but a massive branch with its own limbs and foliage, a mini tree lay on its side like a sunbather looking up at us. We had coffee on the porch and watched John chop it up with a machete.
It's raining now and the air is crystal. From the porch, through a picture frame of tree branches we can see the pastel colours and sharp outlines of downtown Freetown across the bay.
On the speakers, PJ Harvey is scratching out an angry nostalgia about England and I wonder if I will ever be at home there. Will it always be a surreal mix of sunny childhood and family stories, mixed-up with memories of TV shows and old songs. Will I always have to pretend?
I spent last week in Makeni, a town in the middle of Sierra Leone where a huge iron ore mine hopes to level the surrounding mountains and develop the country with smiling promises. Photographing for an NGO, I take pictures for people who will never come here, to show them how the project is changing lives. We intrude on the project's 'beneficiaries', people just busy going about living their lives. We make them do things they were not in the middle of doing. Can you sit over there and wash some clothes? Can you chop up some food? Can you look sad? Can you look happy? Can you give us your story? Can we feed your story to our hungry donors?
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Saturday, September 18, 2010
Operation Raise Millionaires
Resurrection Outreach Ministries
presents:
Operation Raise Millionaires
This operation will make you become the next millionaire. The surgeon of all - Dr Jesus Christ - will do the surgery on you. You're therefore INVITED to ATTEND this special operation that will but off Poverty from you life.
Theme: Power for Wealth
Venua: Fatta Rahman Municipal Secondary School
Behind Baycon Field off Fergusson st.
Behind Baycon Field off Fergusson st.
Ministering Rev Ade Beckley and others
Host: Mrs. Augustus J. Bryant
27th February 2010 @ 630pm
Deut 8:18
Friday, September 17, 2010
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
snippet of a freetown evening
at about six pm just as the day begins to darken at the edges, a group of white birds swoop past our third-floor verandah. Every few minutes I catch the flash of their white swooping shape out of the corner of my eye as they circle around again and again.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
keeping the faith
The walls and billboards of Freetown are pasted with posters of Nigerian salvation, promising hellfire, brimstone and popcorn. At the stadium last weekend there was a revival - the Fire for Fire Crusade, full of women wearing yellow Battle Axe Ministry t-shirts and African print skirts. There was ice-cream, popcorn, drinks and dancing. A music festival for Jesus, everyone bopping around happily. A woman with a huge headwrap was singing on stage like a blues star. Just forget about your troubles; Lift your voice and wash your heart; Sing the song from your heart; You are the Only One.
Battle Axe Ministry International
Presents
Jericho Hour Celebration - Storming the Kingdom of Darkness!
Theme - Walking in the Power of The Holy Ghost.
Prophetic Breakthrough Seminar
Every Jericho Wall Will Crash land
6pm Daily
1 to 7 March, 2010
Flaming Bible Ministries
PROPHETIC DOMINION
Exchange your tears for Joy,
Weeping for Laughter
Living Word of Faith Outreach Ministries International
Women Fire Convention 2010
No More Crumbs,
Matthew 15:27
with Rev. Veralina Sam Jolly
PROPHETIC DOMINION
Exchange your tears for Joy,
Weeping for Laughter
Living Word of Faith Outreach Ministries International
Women Fire Convention 2010
No More Crumbs,
Matthew 15:27
with Rev. Veralina Sam Jolly
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