I am collecting pix while I celebrated the Christmas Season in the "Eastern District" i.e. Zomba. I went to the beach with my mom, sis, uncle, cousins. Boating, good food, excellent weather, nice waves, relaxing road trip, great scenery. Pretty fun for Christmas except for one thing, I stepped on a thorn that took two days to remove. don't ask me how a thorn landed up on the beach. And don't ask me why I wasn't wearing footwear. You'll enjoy the pix tho so Happy New Year! See ya in '08!
The story is told that Alpha Blondy (born Seydou Kone in 1953, Cote d'Ivoire) composed the song "sweet Fanta Diallo" to thank the mysterious nurse who had attended faithfully to his mental health needs as a psychiatric patient in an Ivorian hospital. Well after he was well again, he returned to the hospital to thank Fanta Diallo. No one knew of her or even remembered a nurse named Fanta Diallo as ever having worked there. He left and believing she might have been an angel set about composing the song to thank her anyway. I have had my own Fanta Diallos, many I can't remember; and for those whose composition is not etherial; in case you ever come across this blog, thank you one and all! Here are some my brain can recall: 1. I was a crawling baby when I had wandered on all fours outside of our yard. All my mother remembers from the incident is a very irate man bringing me home. He had found me teetering on a bridge unknowingly facing, as it were, death, a short d
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