Africa
Miss Albinism of Kenya, 2018
BBC coverage here.
I cannot find any evidence that the contest continued in subsequent years.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 10, 2021 -
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Category: Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Human Marvels, Africa
Servant carried in trunk
"Goodness knows the trunk is big enough. It's big enough for two."
Red Deer Advocate - Mar 31, 1969
Posted By: Alex - Mon Aug 02, 2021 -
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Category: 1960s, Africa, Cars
A Dummy Goes to Africa
Unfortunately, the book is not digitized, and original copies go for big bucks. But you can see more pics and read an account of the tale at the link.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 21, 2021 -
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Category: Puppets and Automatons, Religion, Books, 1960s, Africa
Jungle Yachts
Our hero's Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Tue May 05, 2020 -
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Category: Explorers, Frontiersmen, and Conquerors, Motor Vehicles, Africa
Shame of the Jungle
Cartoon nudity.The Wikipedia page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Oct 21, 2018 -
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Category: Sexuality, Cartoons, 1970s, Africa, Europe
Land of Islam
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 10, 2017 -
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Category: Foreign Customs, 1930s, Africa, Middle East
Refrigerated Camels
Instead of using refrigerated trucks to deliver medical supplies to people who live in the deserts of Africa, inventors have built solar-powered refrigerators that can be carried by camels, and so the medicines are delivered via refrigerated camel.Apparently it wasn't that easy to build a camel-carried refrigerator. It had to be lightweight, but also sturdy enough to survive the motion of being on the camel as well as the extreme desert conditions.
More info: ABC News, inhabitat.com
Posted By: Alex - Wed May 31, 2017 -
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Category: Animals, Inventions, Medicine, Transportation, Africa
The Empire of the Sahara
In June 1903 a French sugar millionaire, one Jacques Lebaudy, a dapper little man with a sharp nose and a shrill high-pitched voice who was said to have a personal fortune of some pounds 3m, recruited a dozen Breton sailors and landed them on the coast of Spanish Morocco, commanding them to go forth and establish an empire. Lebaudy then informed the French authorities that he was henceforth to be addressed as Jacques I, Najin-al-Den, Emperor of the Sahara, Commander of the Faithful, King of Tarfaia, Duke of Arleuf and Prince of Chal-Huin.
Full account here, including his inglorious death.
Wikipedia entry here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri May 12, 2017 -
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Category: Bombast, Bloviation and Pretentiousness, Dictators, Tyrants and Other Harsh Rulers, Eccentrics, 1900s, Africa, Europe
Pinocchio In Africa
Not expecting Disney to film this sequel any time soon.
Full text here.
Posted By: Paul - Thu Jul 28, 2016 -
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Category: Puppets and Automatons, Racism, Fantasy, 1910s, Africa, Europe
Wrong Car
Similar to Alex's post of a day or two ago! How often does this kind of thing happen?
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Feb 10, 2016 -
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Category: Jokes, Africa
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