DR. DODIDDILY AND THE DEE DOT'S

WELCOME YOU TO THE WORLD AROUND US.

WHICH IS BASED FOR PROTECTION INSIDE

North Africa 

The Land of Many Places.

Please enjoy these little stories, dances and songs

whilst I get on with adding lots of wonderful things to your page

The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo Republic or Congo-Brazzaville, is a country located in Central Africa.

Africa -  The Land of Many Creatures and Flags

    From the veranda of Harambee, which is the Swahili name for the home I lived in during my stay in Kenya.  Often I could stand for minutes at a time, watching the sun setting. The year was nineteen sixty four, with one child, a son, his name David. He, sleeping in the arms of my Ayah and friend Ameena, a Somali tribes-woman, lying comfortably, wrapped in her flowing gown. The two of us just standing, watching the sun herself going to sleep beneath the horizon.       

  Children of the Flame Forest  

  Within the flame forest Salamanders weave their golden spells,  

  Nets of words to catch unwary travellers,  

  Bequile them for a little while with their tales of wonder , 

  Legends of the true and sacred fire nurtured in the World's old depths  .

  Creations of great antiquity guardians of lore and mythology, 

  They only wish to share their knowledge but cognisant of Man's timid nature  

  Must perforce resort to magic elder craft of woven fire,

To bind men in a trance awhile, hoping that once their fear pales

  As freedom is restored, something of awe and beauty will still remain, 

Footprints of gold in the autumn woods,

leaves of flame drifting down within the mind, 

  Luminous residues of another space and time

leaving filigree traceries of a faerie-kind.

  Children of the flameforest,  I hear the gentle crackling sound

  That is your mischievous laughter, and don't know whether to embrace you or flee.

  I make the sign of the Devil's horns  and speak a furtive prayer to Hastur,

  Looking back across my shoulder  to the gently burning woods...

AFRICA

Africa is suffering deforestation at twice the world rate, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

Some sources claim that deforestation has already wiped out roughly 90% of West Africa's original forests. Deforestation is accelerating in Central Africa.

According to the FAO, Africa lost the highest percentage of tropical forests of any continent during the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s.

According to the figures from the FAO (1997), only 22.8% of West Africa's moist forests remain, much of this degraded.

Nigeria has lost 81% of its old-growth forests in just 15 years (1990–2005). Massive deforestation threatens food security in some African countries. One factor contributing to the continent's high rates of deforestation is the dependence of 90% of its population on wood as fuel for heating and cooking.

Research carried out by WWF International in 2006 shows that in Africa, rates of illegal logging vary from 50% in Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea to 70% in Gabon and 80% in Liberia – where timber revenues played a major role in financing the Sierra Leone Civil War and other regional armed conflicts until the UN Security Council imposed a ban on all Liberian timber in 2003.

THE DEFORESTATION OF BRAZIL

ETHIOPIA

This United States Information Service film shows Ethiopia's participation in the United Nation's forces in Korea and the signing of a treaty of friendship with the United States. The original film was secured these many years by the Ethiopian Korean War veteran Ashenafi Kebede and made available on the web by Andrew Laurence - Ethiopian American Cultural Center.

As myself and my husband spend most of our holidays in South Korea, I wonder how many of you know what a great part the Ethiopian Nation played during the war between North Korea and South Korea 1950-1953. Many, many lives were lost and the war has never been declared over, only an amnesty was signed. Anyway it is to all the brave soldiers of Ethiopia that I would like to say a big "Thank You." for your bravery.

Ethiopia is Africa's oldest independent country and its second largest in terms of population. Apart from a five-year occupation by Mussolini's Italy, it has never been colonised.

It has a unique cultural heritage, being the home of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church - one of the oldest Christian churches - and a monarchy that ended only in the coup of 1974.

It served as a symbol of African independence throughout the colonial period, and was a founder member of the United Nations and the African base for many international organisations.

                                        

Ethiopia has suffered periodic droughts and famines that lead to a long civil conflict in the 20th Century and a border war with Eritrea.

In the first part of the 20th Century Ethiopia forged strong links with Britain, whose troops helped evict the Italians in 1941 and put Emperor Haile Selassie back on his throne. From the 1960s British influence gave way to that of the US, which in turn was supplanted by the Soviet Union.

Although it has had fewer of the coups that have plagued other African countries, Ethiopia's turmoil has been no less devastating. Drought, famine, war and ill-conceived policies brought millions to the brink of starvation in the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1974 this helped topple Haile Selassie. His regime was replaced by a self-proclaimed Marxist junta led by Mengistu Haile Mariam under which many thousands of opponents were purged or killed, property was confiscated and defence spending spiralled.

The overthrow of the junta in 1991 saw political and economic conditions stabilise, to the extent that the country is regarded as one of Africa's most stable.

Ethiopia is one of Africa's poorest states, although it has experienced rapid economic growth since the end of the civil war. Almost two-thirds of its people are illiterate. The economy revolves around agriculture, which in turn relies on rainfall. It is one of Africa's leading coffee producers.

Many Ethiopians depend on food aid from abroad. In 2004 the government began a drive to move more than two million people away from the arid highlands of the east in an attempt to provide a lasting solution to food shortages.

Drought-prone and short of food, Ethiopia has suffered a series of famines in recent decades

At the end of 2006 Ethiopia sent between 5,000 and 10,000 troops into Somalia to support forces of the weak transitional government there and helped to oust the Islamists who had controlled southern Somalia for six months.

But, despite initial successes, the Ethiopians were unable to break the power of the Islamists, who gradually began to win back lost territory.

Ethiopia's presence in Somalia formally ended in early 2009, when it pulled its troops under an agreement between the transitional Somali government and moderate Islamists.

THE NAMES OF ALL THE PERSONEL WHO DIED IN THE WAR BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH KOREA ARE LISTED ON THESE PLAQUES INCLUDING OF COURSE ALL THOSE FROM ETHIOPEA WHO FOUGHT SO COURAGOUSLY .

THE SOUTH KOREAN WAR MUSEUM , IKSAN, SOUTH KOREA.

ISMAEL LO - JAMMU AFRICA

AND WHAT BETTER START TODAY THAN WITH AFRICA AT IT'S VERY BEST.

Listen and be blessed that you are alive and still have your hearing, so that this wonderful voice can bring to you the wonders and sadness that is Africa today.

Long ago, there lived a great Wizard. One day, as he was walking through the village, a Mouse fell to the ground from the beak of a crow. He picked up the Mouse and fed him some rice.

Then, one day, the Wizard saw a Cat chasing the Mouse around the village. Scared that his pet Mouse would be killed by the Cat, he turned the Mouse into a Cat so that it could defend itself.

The next day, the Wizard saw his Cat frightened by a Tiger and  immediately changed him into a Tiger.
The villagers said, “That’s not a Tiger! It’s just a Mouse that the Wizard changed into a Tiger. He won’t eat us or even scare us.”
When the Tiger heard this, he was furious with the Wizard. He thought, ‘As long as the Wizard is alive, the truth about my real nature will always be spoken!’
But as soon as the Wizard saw the Tiger coming, he understood his plan and shouted, “Get back into the
form of a Mouse.”
The Tiger shrank and became a little Mouse, once again.

Whoever we grow up to be, we should always be humble.

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Once, three Crows and two Sparrows lived in a forest. They all were good friends. They would meet every day and fly around together from one place to another. The Crows would constantly look for food and the Sparrows for a place to make their nests.

One day, the Crows said, “Let’s explore this part of the forest.  Someone told us there is lots of food here.”
The new part of the forest was beautiful and there was, indeed, plenty of food. However, there was only
one large tree. The Sparrows and the Crows wanted to live there.

The Sparrows told their aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents and friends about the new place. Everyone wanted to live there. The Crows also did the same.

Soon, a big fight broke out among the birds. The Crows said, ‘We found the place first, so we will live on
the tree.”
The Sparrows said, “So what? We will live there. We found the tree first.”
After this, the two Sparrows and three Crows also could not be friends.

They constantly fought with each, “You Crows are bad.”
“You Sparrows are fools!”
Thus, they went back to their own kind.

Birds of a feather flock together.

Know thy god self and you know god. They have research ancient Africans (Kemet) and discovered sacred knowledge of sacred geometry and named it BioGeometry. View BioGeometry as a modern form of alchemy based on subtle energy interactions of geometrical shapes. In Biogeometry a  pyramid shapte is energized and emanate a carrier waved of energy. Sacred geometry configuration produce and amplify that energy.  This is why my orgone devices are  made using sacred geormetry.

   YA KOL

Dr Dodiddily and the Dee-Dot's : North Africa

    The Sahrawi People

Dr Dodiddily and the Dee-Dot's : North Africa: "Sahrawi music is a mixture of Arabic and African music. The latter is illustrated by the rhythm and resonance of the percussions of the region’s tom-toms and drums. The Sahrawi musician, called Igyou, carries out his music using instruments called Azouane. Sahrawi music is characterized by its close relationship to Hassani poetry. They are deeply united since music is the only means for poetry to be heard, understood and appreciated.

Concerning dancing, called Arguiss, it is an artistic expression practised by both men and women in addition to youth. With regard to men, it is a confrontation of two Sahrawis on musical rhythms where they devoutly perform original leg movements.

This dance is called Kiira.

Sahrawi women dance as well, covering themselves with their slightly transparent veils called Mlahfa. They accompany their dances with a sensual movement of hands and fingers. This dance is called Tritim and is performed on a slower rhythm which is preferred by Sahrawi young girls called Kamba bi bi. Women dancing is much more expressive than that of men. Generally, their expression reflects their state of mind and their sensitivity.

still to come xxx