HEALTH
14-09-2019 di redazione
MAL D'AFRIQUE
di Giorgio Ferro
Watamukenya.net remembers one of the Italians who best told about the love for this country and its contradictions
NATURE
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Freeing lakes from a weed that restricts fish reproduction and at the same time creating biofuel to limit the use of charcoal in rural kitchens.
This is a Kenyan initiative that simultaneously safeguards the environment, trade and the health of...
PLANTS OF KENYA
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Rhodognaphalon Schumannianum or East African Bombax or Wild Kapok, is an indigenous species of flowering plant in the Malvaceae family found in the coastal strip of East Africa, from south-eastern...
PRODUCTS
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It is also easily found in Kenya, the fruit of Guava.
The Psidium guajava is a small evergreen plant that offers different fruits in colour depending on the variety:...
HISTORY
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The story we are telling you today happened in Kenya one hundred years ago.
A century before the pandemic that many now call the "plague of the third millennium", knowing full well..
STORIES
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Let's pick up a passage we translated, taken from an amusing, ironic and by now unobtainable booklet by the Kenyan journalist and writer Binyavanga Wainaina, who unfortunately left us in May last year, who makes fun of the commonplaces of...
TRADITIONS
di Ferdinanda Vigliani
East coast of Africa.
The boundaries of that linguistic and cultural unity known as Swahili culture range from Mogadishu in the north to Cape Delgado in Mozambique.
A long coastline shared by a single language: the kiswahili, a mixture of...
The coconut is the fruit of the coconut palm, scientific name Cocos nucifera, a plant belonging to the Arecaceae family and native to Indonesia, but thanks to the ability of coconuts to float on seawater and maintain the ability to...
The renewal of the DPCM by Prime Minister Draghi last March did not change anything in fact regarding travel beyond Europe, i.e. the so-called 'Schengen area'. Thus, travel for tourism remains officially prohibited
RECIPES
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An ancient Swahili legend says that before the arrival of the Portuguese, the natives of the Kenyan coast did not eat avocado but only used oil, because they did not consider it as fruit or vegetables.
When the Portuguese decided...
PRODUCTS
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In Kenya they call it the fruit that protects, but the properties of papaya are many and not only limited to its emollient and anti-burning properties on the body, or to the digestive, purifying and
ENVIRONMENT
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Downstream from an ecological disaster brewing a continent away, these placid waters are bearing the brunt of a foot-born problem: your flip flops.
The Japanese call them zoris. They're thongs in Australia. Tsinelas in the Philippines and chinelos in Brazil....
