Welcome to Blog #6. This is the last of the introductory blog post focuses on category – Local Experiences. Blog posting categorized under Local Experiences will be dedicated to a wide rang of things that have happened to me or I witnessed over the years outside of the principle ADEA activities and programs already listed.
This introductory Blog focuses on category – MaKuYa Cultural Museum and Learning Center. The museum is currently our primary project as we aim to ignite the joy of learning and discovery here Mtwara.
In 2006 we at ADEA along with some other expats working in Mtwara, Tanzania had the idea of a festival, one that celebrated culture and fun. In 2008 this idea became the MaKuYa Traditional Culture and Performing Arts Festival. It sparked a renaissance in traditional dance, it bridge the generations, and lifted appreciations for local culture.
In 2007 ADEA partnered with the Pillar of Maasai Development (PMD) Community Based Organization (CBO) in Rombo, Kenya to bring primary school education to Maasai children whose families needed future hope due to devastating loss of land and cattle. In this blog I’ll share dimensions of ADEA’s work with the Maasai: our efforts, successes and challenges. Also, the culture I have experienced and friends I have made.
Under this category you will learn about ADEA’s work with artisans that initially launched ADEA – and thus our name “The center for African Development through Economics and the Arts”.
Welcome to the first of many (maybe hundreds) of very very short blogs from Africa drawn from my more than two decades of working, living, socializing, exploring, and experiencing life in East Africa. These blogs will be diverse in their content drawn from past and present developments of my ADEA