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Off to Arusha for the TED Global conference. Can’t actually believe it’s already time for the conference; it’s so amazing how fast the year has gone by and we’re already in June! Been looking forward to the conference all year Very ready to absorb all the knowledge from some of the world’s and definitely the continent’s great minds!

It’s been a crazy, beautiful, amazing, hectic and busy few weeks. Moved from Liberia in December. I’m now back in Lusaka, working on getting Zedspot Media off the ground along with a few other projects. Learnt quite a lot from the time I started working in Liberia in March of 2004 till the time I left! It was my first time ever in West Africa (only part of Africa I hadn’t been to prior to that) and I got to take in a lot of the culture, the food and of course made a lot of friends! I’ll truly miss the place. But it’s now time to get into the swing of things in the Southern part of the continent.I got some really amazing news when I checked my email only to find out that I had been awarded a TED Global - Africa: the next chapter fellowship!!! Talk about starting the new year on a good note. I’m really looking forward to the conference in Arusha this June and I can’t wait to absorb all the inspiration that’ll be oozing out of the great list of speakers they’ve got lined up.

Whooooa…nice and long…wait, short vacation Can’t imagine how fast 3 weeks went by so fast! I did enjoy myself though. Spent a week in Lusaka, where I also had the chance to check out the first Fashion Week event for Zambian designers! Really enjoyed the show and I wish the organizers and designers all the best as preparations for next year’s event are already underway and I’m sure it’ll be an even bigger event! Also, went down to Jo’burg for some shopping and partying for a weekend with my cousins. Returned to Lusaka for a few days & here are a few pictures I took along the way…

Blogging from Addis Ababa, it’s past one o’clock in the morning…just got into the hotel after my flight from Accra was delayed by two hours! I must say, Addis done changed since the last time I was here in 2000.

The first thing I noticed of course was the new Addis international airport…very nice, very very nice! Well done Ethiopia. It’s definitely bigger and better than the last time I was here; the design is definitely on par with some of the best airports on the continent…simply lovely.

When I was booking my flights this time around, I decided to take a break from the usual Accra - Narobi - Lusaka route and it’s good that I did that. Glad to be back in Addis even though it’s only for a few hours as I have to be back at the airport in the next 5 hours…was supposed to link up with my cousin and aunts had we arrived at the scheduled time of 9:30PM. Hopefully, the trip back to West Africa in a couple of weeks will give me more time to hang around the city albeit for a few more hours than I have now.

Will blog some more once I touch down in Zed.