PERNILLE BÆRENDTSEN
pernille@duniaduara.dk / Signal & WhatsApp +4529717068

'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.
'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!
PhD Student, MA in African Studies, journalist and former development worker. Home is Copenhagen. 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.
Writing for the Danish Foreign Ministry's magazine 'Udvikling' about the world's growing interest for fashion from Africa. (In Danish)
Photo essay from Sauti za Busara in Zanzibar.
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).
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'.
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.
Writing for the Danish Foreign Ministry's magazine 'Udvikling' about Global Media Freedom conference in Copenhagen in April 2015.
Mix tape cover for TEDXDar May 2010
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.
Leading independent websites go dark as Tanzania’s ‘blogger tax’ deadline approaches
On 3 February 2016 I took part in a debate on identity among Somali youth in Denmark.
Taking over the Instagram handle of GV for one week.
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:
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.
Kl. ca. 17.50 i dag (1.43.00) fortalte jeg i Orientering på P1 om situationen i Tanzania. Lyt:
Writing for the Danish Foreign Ministry’s magazine ‘Udvikling’ about global, cultural products.
Political Conflict Triggers Turmoil in South Sudan, Leaving Hundreds Dead The tensions within South Sudan’s so-called “transitional” government, which was formed on April 29, reached a boiling point earlier this month when an altercation involving President Salva Kiir and the Vice President Riek Machar, who have long been political rivals, swiftly unraveled into an armed conflict that lasted for several days and left hundreds dead.
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.
AFRIKA – DET ER IKKE SÅ FREMMED MERE Karen Mukupa Sangerinde Født i 1973 i Zambia af en zambisk mor og en dansk far, der var udviklingsarbejder for Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke. Opvokset i både Tanzania og Danmark. Karen har siden 1990erne samarbejdet med afrikanske musikere, bl.a. Juma Nature i Dar es Salaam og Atemi i Nairobi. Er aktuel med singlen ’Orijinal’, som følges op af en EP med samme titel i august.
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.
VERDENSMESTRENE: Island har på to årtier skabt en markant nedgang i unges misbrug af rusmidler. Det har givet genlyd i hele verden. Opskriften er politik baseret på forskning.
Reportage from a Danish supported humanitarian project for South Sudanese refugees and Ugandan local communities in Rhino Camp in West Nile in Uganda.
Happy to have contributed to have three African writers included in the Copenhagen Central Library's annual literature festival magazine (p. 14). Theme is growth. Victor Lugala from South Sudan talks about his appreciation of Bob Dylan winning the Nobel Prize; Jackson Biko from Kenya speaks about how reading feeds writing; and Elsie Eyakuze from Tanzania rejects being put in a box labelled 'African writers'. Read more on link, p. 14.