Björn in Southern Africa
Posted in Botswana, Southern Africa on Mar 7th, 2010
After a very long flight taking me from Berlin to Munich – over the white Alpes, through whole African continent to Johannesburg in South Africa and I finally arrived on Tuesday after almost a day of travelling to beautiful Gaborone in Botswana. It was great flying in over a totally green Kalahari-desert, as it was [...]
Before I join my new job on 1st of March in Botswana I am currently on preparation-courses in Eschborn (near Frankfurt/Main) with around 30 other GTZ co-workers, who will join projects all over the world. For the first time in my professional job I receive professional preparation with management-skills, financial-explainations and of course strategic elements [...]
After some waiting I received last week the final approval for my new challenge in Africa. From March on I will move back for at least one year to Gaborone (Botswana) and start working for the GTZ in their water-programme in the SADC region. As I wrote my thesis about this topic I am familiar [...]
After three months of field-research in Southern Africa with the GTZ in Botswana and trips to South Africa, Mozambique and Tansania and afterwards one month writing my master-thesis in Singapore I finally handed in this “masterpiece” yesterday to my university in Berlin. The thesis elaborates before the background of transboundary water-management in the SADC region [...]
It is getting damn close now! Only three more days and I have to deliver my master-thesis to the University of Berlin while almost finishing my whole university-life. I only have to attend two vocal exams in June and then I would be done. As I had three months of field-research in Southern Africa I [...]
Posted in Botswana on Jan 16th, 2009
The “African Times” magazine, which deals with African topics from German perspective and is editored by Bartholomäus Grill (African-correspondent for “Die Zeit”) just published one of my articles about “Nico United”, a Botswana football club. You can find the article below and download the whole magazine here.
Yellow is the colour of hope
Posted in Botswana on Dec 21st, 2008
After three magnificient months of work, crazy trips, amazing friends and enjoying the summer of Africa I have to went back tomorrow to cold and icy Germany for celebrating chrismas… and I still cannot imaging how it will be: thirty degress less and with rain in greyish Munich and Berlin. I really enjoyed my time [...]
Posted in Botswana on Dec 15th, 2008
After GTZ office here realized an amazing year of projects and activities this weekend time-building was scheduled in the Kuthse-desert. Several games-drives were done but somehow Kuthse did not liked us, we saw very rarely animals not in the afternoon nor in the early (!) morning drive but spot a gepard and no lions. Botswana [...]
Posted in Botswana on Dec 15th, 2008
When I arrived in Gaborone our garden showed almost no green and no flowers and it was quite depressing but after the rain from last weeks it totally changed. Our garden is amazing green and blossom all around, now it makes fun to use the swimming-pool and enjoy life over there. But as you see [...]
Posted in Botswana on Dec 5th, 2008
Since several years I was just organising journalism workshops, trainings and congresses on German and European level and build up even networks in Jordan and Afghanistan but I lacked always the time to constantly write own articles. That changed here in Africa and I took the chance to experience work as foreign correspondent with the [...]