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Bahman Keramati is an Iranian who has lived a decade in Africa. He's mostly lived in Nigeria and Tanzania. He's also visited many other countries in Africa. I asked him:
This 29th episode of the WanderLearn podcast is just 30 minutes long.
This show was sponsored by Health Access Sumbawa. In 2014, Jack Kennedy founded this nonprofit that is helping bring malaria control and healthcare to remote, impoverished communities. It started on the remote island of Sumbawa, Indonesia. Visit their website to learn more and to donate: https://healthaccesssumbawa.org
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To learn more about Vacasa, listen to WanderLearn podcast #19 where I interview Thaddeus Hansom Vacasa's Head of Global Partner Programs.
In this episode, I spend 15 minutes walking through a Vacasa home in Arizona. This $1 million home has 5 bedrooms and 4 baths. There's also a pool.
It would have cost me $2,000 to rent it for 3 nights, but I got to stay for free.
Unlike other travel bloggers, I don't lose my objectivity just because I stay somewhere for free. I still give you good advice on when and when not to use Vacasa.
This show was sponsored by Health Access Sumbawa. In 2014, Jack Kennedy founded this nonprofit that is helping bring malaria control and healthcare to remote, impoverished communities. It started on the remote island of Sumbawa, Indonesia. Visit their website to learn more and to donate: https://healthaccesssumbawa.org
You can post comments, ask questions, and sign up for my newsletter at http://wanderlearn.com.
If you like this podcast, subscribe and share!
On social media, my username is always ftapon. Follow me on:
Claim your monthly reward by becoming a patron at http://Patreon.com/FTapon
Rewards start at just $2/month!
If you prefer to do a one-time contribution, you can send it to my PayPal at [email protected]
If you prefer sending me cryptocurrency, then please send your support to one of my favorite wallets (in order of preference):
Anamaria is a Tanzanian who has lived 7 months in South Africa. Since many people think that all African countries are quite similar, I asked her to compare the two countries.
We also delve into:
We do a deep dive into witchcraft.
My wife, Rejoice Tapon, chimes in occasionally on the show.
This show was sponsored by Health Access Sumbawa. In 2014, Jack Kennedy founded this nonprofit that is helping bring malaria control and healthcare to remote, impoverished communities. It started on the remote island of Sumbawa, Indonesia. Visit their website to learn more and to donate: https://healthaccesssumbawa.org
You can post comments, ask questions, and sign up for my newsletter at http://wanderlearn.com.
If you like this podcast, subscribe and share!
On social media, my username is always ftapon. Follow me on:
Claim your monthly reward by becoming a patron at http://Patreon.com/FTapon
Rewards start at just $2/month!
If you prefer to do a one-time contribution, you can send it to my PayPal at [email protected]
If you prefer sending me cryptocurrency, then please send your support to one of my favorite wallets (in order of preference):
Jennifer Peedom is a mountaineer and filmmaker who made my favorite documentary about the mountains. It's simply called Mountain. It's free for Netflix subscribers or you can rent it for $4 on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2viG9XnS1g
The Mountain documentary has four elements and Peedom hits a home run on all of them:
You can watch this interview on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euoQNBcwsaY
Jennifer Peedom has also done 3 major feature documentaries:
Peedom explains why you need a festival strategy to make it big.
You need a good sales agent who can get you into Netflix and other major streamers.
Peedom explains what errors documentary novices make.
I ask Peedom how she's changed and evolved as a filmmaker.
I loved Free Solo with Alex Honnold, but Mountain is more profound. Watch both. Spread the word.
This show was sponsored by Health Access Sumbawa. In 2014, Jack Kennedy founded this nonprofit that is helping bring malaria control and healthcare to remote, impoverished communities. It started on the remote island of Sumbawa, Indonesia. Visit their website to learn more and to donate: https://healthaccesssumbawa.org
You can post comments, ask questions, and sign up for my newsletter at http://wanderlearn.com.
If you like this podcast, subscribe and share!
On social media, my username is always ftapon. Follow me on:
Claim your monthly reward by becoming a patron at http://Patreon.com/FTapon
Rewards start at just $2/month!
If you prefer to do a one-time contribution, you can send it to my PayPal at [email protected]
If you prefer sending me cryptocurrency, then please send your support to one of my favorite wallets (in order of preference):
Most people (including Africans) would love it if Africa no longer needed charity. If Africa was able to economically stand on its own two feet, charities could focus efforts elsewhere. The planet would be better off.
Although parts of Africa are rich, most parts are still poor.
The question is: how can we help lift Africans out of poverty?
China and India lifted over one billion people out of poverty in the last 30 years.
Africa has one billion poor.
Most agree that charities are not a long-term solution to help build African wealth.
The secret is to do what China and India have done. Africans must provide goods and services that the rest of the world (and other Africans) value.
If they can't do that, they will always be mired in poverty.
The Anou is working to build a long-term solution for one corner of Africa called Morocco.
The Anou is an online marketplace optimized for illiterate Moroccans (and others). Ever since 2011, Dan Driscoll has been helping Moroccan artisans make a living.
Dan explains how QR codes help illiterate artisans. He reveals the challenges of creating a vertically-aligned enterprise. Most important, Dan is working hard to make himself obsolete.
As Dan wrote in an email to me, "The goal of Anou's work is to get artisans themselves to restructure how Morocco's artisan economy works so that it works for artisans, rather than against them. Artisans right now have an opportunity to change how everything here works, so whether it be a mill or sophisticated logistics, it all serves to enable artisans to consolidate power and influence to change things as they see fit. Getting artisans paid a little more is just collateral of solving more structural problems, which is why Anou, which is largely managed by artisans outside of me, is distinctly different than all the people who are here in Morocco trying to just help individual artisans with a little more cash."
Fact Check: At the start of the episode, I refer to Cape Town's water rationing. I guesstimated that the South African city officials limited locals to 30 liters, but I was wrong. Each person was rationed 50 liters.
This show was sponsored by Health Access Sumbawa. In 2014, Jack Kennedy founded this nonprofit that is helping bring malaria control and healthcare to remote, impoverished communities. It started on the remote island of Sumbawa, Indonesia. Visit their website to learn more and to donate: https://healthaccesssumbawa.org
You can post comments, ask questions, and sign up for my newsletter at http://wanderlearn.com.
If you like this podcast, subscribe and share!
On social media, my username is always ftapon. Follow me on:
Claim your reward by becoming a patron at http://Patreon.com/FTapon
Rewards start at just $2/month!
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