Posts Tagged ‘Africa’

February 11th, 2010 By Josh Kitlas Posted in Africa

Die Antwoord…fact or fiction?

Everyone’s abuzz about Die Antwoord. I guess VICE was there first, now boingboing, again and again. I’m probably that last one to hear about them (they have nearly 20,000 Facebook fans). Who are they? They appear to be these ‘other side of the tracks’ hipster/rappers/ravers from South Africa + Continue Reading

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June 8th, 2009 By Josh Kitlas Posted in Africa

Intercrap – Strange But True!

Intercrap

Intercrap

I think I’ve seen it all. There’s actually an organization called INTERCRAP. I had to reduce the logo but check to the far right.

It’s a Nigerian organization and I’m really unsure why they have an American flag on their site. The homepage also has a picture of Barry Obama.

Research also shows that inter-crap is defined in urbandictionary.com as:

Inter-crap

A basic combonation of the words internet and crap. Means spam, junk mail, bad websites, eBay-like-websites, things that are just plain wrong on the internet, websites that say they have things but they really don’t, etc…

most websites that have anything to do with a children show is usually a porn sight or a load of inter-crap

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June 1st, 2009 By Josh Kitlas Posted in Africa, Kitlas, Nigeria

Lost Photos


I totally forgot I had these pictures. Great stuff of some kids in a remote village, a school in the same remote village, verdant hills and valleys, some kids in a small town, a few city (Lagos) shots), and me mugging for the camera with a really big beard (which I’ve since kept off). These were all taken around the same time (the end of 2007, beginning of 2008) on a business and vacation trip that took me around Nigeria.

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May 3rd, 2009 By Josh Kitlas Posted in Food, Technology

Down With YouTube, Up With ScreenToaster

A goat

A goat

So I had an excellent video depicting the traditional slaughter of a goat during Christmas/holiday time. I posted it on YouTube. YouTube removed it citing “This video has been removed due to terms of use violation.”. I fought with with YouTube but never heard anything back. The strange thing was that though they claimed it was removed and couldn’t be viewed anymore, I was still able to view it by clicking on the ‘Annotations’ button in the My Account area. Unfortunately I couldn’t download it, but I came across ScreenToaster, which is a FREE web-based utility that will record a screencast. It’s super-easy to use as well.

Awesome. + Continue Reading

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October 14th, 2008 By Josh Kitlas Posted in Africa, Nigeria, Technology

Pambazuka News Award

A colorful stool

A colorful stool

Pabmazuka News is a terrific resource for Pan African news with a social justice slant. They recently won an award (scroll down) and can be viewed online here. I lifted their ‘About Us’ as well as info about the award.

The ‘About Us’: + Continue Reading

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