Dear Devotees, Please find below a summary of the Book Scores for August from the African Continent. Please click on the link below for details per temple. Country Books Points Kenya 4959 2766.45 Malawi 63 68.50 Mauritius 4914 1763.00 South Africa 1175 503.70 Total: 11111 5101.65 Africa Book Scores – August 2012 Continue reading Africa Book Scores – August 2012
Malawi, in Africa, is a place where very few have heard of Krsna. But there are many people here who are always ready to buy the books, and as soon as they look at them, they say how beautiful they are.
Once I went into a bakery named Ali Baba Bakery and showed the books to the fair-skinned man at the cash counter. His name was Nicholas and he was immediately interested. He took SSR, Raja Vidya, Beyond Birth and Death, and Perfection of Yoga. He paid half the amount and asked me to come and collect the other half on the next day. Continue reading “Report from Malawi”
Dear Devotees, Please find below a summary of the Book Scores for July from the African Continent. Please click on the link below for details per temple. Temple Books Points Kenya 459 356.75 Malawi 116 98.75 Mauritius 6231 2179.00 South Africa 1042 387.05 Total: 7848 3021.55 Africa Book Scores – July 2012 Continue reading Africa Book Scores – July 2012
Dear Devotees, Please find below a summary of the Book Scores for June 2012 from the African Continent. Please click on the link below for details per temple. Country Books Points Ghana 594 83.75 Kenya 642 462.45 Malawi 142 98.00 Mauritius 5421 1729.50 South Africa 3932 1228.55 Total: 10731 3602.25 Africa Book Scores – June 2012 Continue reading Africa Book Scores – June 2012
Dear Devotees, Please find below, a summary of the Book Scores for May 2012 from the African Continent. Temple Books Points Kenya 558 232.75 Malawi 201 133.75 Mauritius 3038 1105.00 South Africa 911 360.70 Total: 4708 1832.20 Please click on this link for details per temple: Africa Book Scores – May 2012 Continue reading Africa Sankirtana Scores – May 2012
Dear Devotees, Please find below a summary of the Book Scores for April 2012 from the African Continent. Please click on the link below for details per temple. Country Books Points DR of Congo 2790 564.75 Ghana 120 24.25 Kenya 567 248.50 Malawi 78 71.25 Mauritius 2819 1120.50 South Africa 3514 2325.45 Total: 9888 4354.70 Africa Book Scores – April 2012 Continue reading Africa Book Scores – April 2012
Submitted by Murari Dasa
Iskcon Blantyre
Bhakta Ram has become very keen for any opportunity to distribute books, and so he joins me on weekend book distribution excursions.
On the first weekend of March Bhakta Ram and I rode by car about
four hours to the shore of Lake Malawi, to a town called Mangochi, the main holiday-resort town in this country. Bhakta Ram took one of his company cars and a driver. Since the following Monday was a holiday, it was a long weekend. Mangochi is a predominantly Muslim town, but the people there are all liberal and friendly. The driver told us that when the Arabs used to travel to the African interior from the East African coast this town was a stop-over point, and that explains its predominantly Muslim population. Continue reading “Report From Malawi”
Submitted by Murari Dasa
Iskcon Blantyre
Hare Krsna,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
A few weeks back we started going house to house on Sundays, here in Blantyre, Malawi. With me was Bhakta Ram, an expatriate Indian professional who started attending Bhagavad-gita classes about one and a half years ago and who subsequently took up the process of Krishna consciousness.
So far we have gone out on 4 Sundays. On the first Sunday that we went out we were used as instruments for giving out two books. I had gone house to house in India for at least about two years in the South. But this was Malawi, in Africa, worlds apart. I didn’t know what to expect or what to say or how to present myself and the books. And so I just followed whatever we did in India and then tried to adjust accordingly. Continue reading “House to House in Malawi”
Submitted by Madhumangala Dasa
Dar es Salaam
Diary Entry 28th February 2012
I had a blissful day distributing books in downtown Dar es Salaam. The main street was a hive of activity – taxis, busses, a huge sea of people coming and going, street vendors on every corner selling everything from belts, wallets to exotic fruits of all kinds.
People would stare at me with a curious look, but all the time smiling and greeting me. I stopped one barrister on his way to court, dressed in his court dress, and traditional white shirt and neck tie. I began to speak to him and told him the reason the laws are not working, is because Continue reading “Law Books for the next 10 000 years”
Submitted by Madhumangala Dasa
Dar es Salaam
Diary Entry 13th February 2012
Since the next day I would return to Johannesburg from Dar es Salaa, which is on the east coast of Africa, I decided to take a walk along the beach. I told the taxi driver where I wanted to go, and he said he knew where it was and would take me there. But after he dropped me off and I had walked for some time, I realized I was far from where I had intended to be. But it was hot and I wasn’t prepared to find another taxi. So I just kept walking. Soon I approached the ferryboat terminal, where hundreds of locals where walking and large crowds lined the streets, selling everything from fruit to clothing to sunglasses, and of course the fish market was bustling. Buses, motorbikes — I was in a sea of bodies. From what I could see, I was the only mazungo (foreigner) Continue reading “The Glorious Harinam Party in Dar es Salaam”
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