Africa – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

Organ-grinding tweets for February

More untruths & idle opinions.

Tweets for October 2013

Any Nyanja speakers out there?

Help me with Elube, please.

The true origins of “Africa begins at the Pyrenees”

This deeply resented peripheralising aphorism was coined not by Alexander Dumas but by Dominique Dufour de Pradt or conceivably the Conde do Funchal.

Africa begins in the Pyrenees, according to this Sun OpenSolaris installer.

Solving Africa’s woes with a simple parlour game

Desultory bar philosophising on the socio-economic function of Secret Santa.

Francisco Camps vs Fèlix Millet in the media

What do ghit ratios from La Vanguardia, El Periodico, El País, ADN, ABC, El Mundo, Público, and Levante tell us about their owners’ priorities?

Congolese children singing the anthem of Athletic

Some corner of a foreign football pitch that is for ever Bilbao, and I hope they got fed afterwards: The original strikes me as thoroughly Teutonic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ns2rkb3Wb8 Let’s not kid ourselves any longer: everything interesting, from nachos to nationalism, was invented by the Germans. Fortunately they tend to be generous about using the proceeds to…