PERNILLE BÆRENDTSEN
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Performer during the parade openening the Sauti za Busara, the music festival in Unguja in Zanzibar in Tanzania.

'Kahawa' - coffee, in Swahili, is boiled in big kettles and served in small cups with kashata (sweet peanut with sugar and coconut) in Uhuru Park in Tanga in Tanzania. Cups are made in China, and are seen from here over Juba to Sarajevo!

The bodaboda drivers gather on the corner of the church and the hospital, which forms a busy joint between the quite peninsula and the loud uswahilini split by Kimweri Avenue. Named after one of the biggest chiefs in Tanzania.

Performer during the parade openening the Sauti za Busara, the music festival in Unguja in Zanzibar in Tanzania.
MA in African Studies, journalist & former development worker. Home is Copenhagen/Lolland. Heart tilted towards the Balkans & Africa.
© Design, Photo & Text by Pernille Bærendtsen

Interviewing the Tanzanian blogger and writer, Elsie Eyakuze about her relationship with politics.

Photo essay from Sauti za Busara in Zanzibar.

Mix tape cover for TEDXDar May 2010

Article published in Magasinet Udvikling: 'Writing poetry gives power to change things' says Tanzanian Esther-Karin Mngodo, when she explains why the phenomenon spoken word is so popular right now in East Africa'.

Article published in Magasinet Udvikling: 'Writing poetry gives power to change things' says Tanzanian Esther-Karin Mngodo, when she explains why the phenomenon spoken word is so popular right now in East Africa'.

Taking over the Instagram handle of GV for one week.

Zitto Kabwe for Africa Report

'Everyday Life in a Fragile State' Cars cross the border from Uganda loaded to the brim with human beings and cargo. Their iron bellies score the red earth’s unforgiving surface, which strikes back by wearing them thinner and thinner. We note the creased metal wrecks along Kaya Highway up to Yei. According to the World Bank, about 38% of South Sudan’s population has to walk more than 30 minutes to collect drinking water. Women and girls fill tubs and jerry cans several times a day, until one

Reportage from a Danish supported humanitarian project for South Sudanese refugees and Ugandan local communities in Rhino Camp in West Nile in Uganda.

Presenting and debating trends of culture, activism, youth, politics and media in East Africa to and with Danish youth. March 2015 Østafrika oplever lige nu en særdeles interessant udvikling: Yngre politikere i Tanzania udfordrer de ældres opfattelse af, at deres kandidaturer er selvfølgelige. Aktivister går i protest i Nairobi, fordi parlamentsmedlemmer bevilliger sig selv lønforhøjelse. Modedesignerne anvender traditionelle materialer i nye snit.

Writing for the Danish Foreign Ministry's magazine 'Udvikling' about the world's growing interest for fashion from Africa. (In Danish)

Article published in Magasinet Udvikling: 'Writing poetry gives power to change things' says Tanzanian Esther-Karin Mngodo, when she explains why the phenomenon spoken word is so popular right now in East Africa'.

On 3 February 2016 I took part in a debate on identity among Somali youth in Denmark.


Writing from Nairobi, Kenya about the artist Michael Soi and how his art cretes new boundaries for what you can talk about in Kenya. (In Danish).

I 2013 var jeg med til at udvikle grundlaget for SHUGHULIKA ('make yourself busy' på swahili), hvor en stor gruppe danske unge hvert andet år rejser afsted til Tanzania for at bo hos lokale tanzanianske unge og deres familier. Det er der kommet ganske gode resultater ud af. Bl.a. fordi de unge forberedes over 1,5 år, selv tjener penge til rejsen, og fordi projektet er forankret hos tanzanianere med erfaring fra kulturmøde, og der er lærere med superpædagogiske talenter med på turen :-). Læs her:

Leading independent websites go dark as Tanzania’s ‘blogger tax’ deadline approaches

Regeringen har lanceret en ny strategi for økonomisk diplomati: ’Adgang til verden - Nye veje til vækst’. Den understøtter ny-orienteringen af Danmarks relationer med modtagere af udviklingsbistand mod fremme af økonomisk vækst og danske erhvervsinteresser. Det skaber et dilemma. De traditionelle modtagerlande gennemlever nemlig en tilbagegang i demokrati og menneskerettigheder, og dansk økonomisk diplomati kan let opfattes som støtte til magthavere, der indskrænker demokratiet.

Fra Kigoma --> Dar es Salaam --> Zanzibar: Tag med vores Øst-Afrika korrespondent Pernille Bærendtsen på rejse gennem Tanzania. I septermber overtog jeg Korrespondenternes Instagram-handle - det kom der denne historie ud af.

Geografforlaget.

I contributed to the art exhibition 'Africa Reframed' in Øksnehallen in Copenhagen (June 2016) with articles and moderation of talks on African fashion and creativity tendencies. Here with the Tanzanian fashion designer Christine Mhando and Head of PR at Boohoo.com and Founder and Creative Director of Africa Creative Week, Arieta Mujay.

AFRIKA ER IKKE KUN ET STED LANGT VÆK Al Agami Lyriker, musiker og skuespiller Født i 1972 i Kampala i Uganda som søn af kongen af den centralafrikanske enklave Lado, der ligger mellem det nuværende Sydsudan og Uganda. Familien boede i Uganda, da diktatoren Idi Amin kom til magten, og måtte flygte. Al har boet i Danmark siden 1975 med undtagelse af en kortere periode, hvor familien var udstationeret i Kabul i Afghanistan. Al har status som statsløs flygtning under FN-beskyttelse.

Composing and coordinating a two-day conference in Copenhagen with focus on how we communicate about development and the global South.

During 2005-2010 I contributed several articles to the Danish youth magazine Zapp.

On February 24, 2016, together with the actor and musician, Al Agami, I did a public presentation on South sudan. Focus on every day life and people.

Artikel for Fagbladet Billedkunstneren om den tanzanianske kunstner Lutengani Mwakisopile.

Jeg deltog i P1-programmet d. 25. februar, der varmede op til premieren på TV-dramaserien "Liberty", baseret på Jakob Ejersbos roman, om livet som dansker i Tanzania. Det handler om de indgroede fordomme og forholder sig til de dilemmaer, man bliver tvunget til at forholde sig til, når man rejser ud.

Article about the training of South Sudanese and Ugandan reporters on use of mobile phone for radio I've been working with for Deutsche Welle in northern Uganda.

ARTICLE FOR DANISH DAILY POLITIKEN: Weekend i: De safarirejsendes by Tanzanias tredjestørste by, Arusha, har en enestående kombination af natur og byliv med kultur, mad og afslapning.

Writing for the Danish Foreign Ministry’s magazine ‘Udvikling’ about global, cultural products.