David Akinin's Blog

Today I met Mrs. Inge Shatona Shekupe in Oshifo, a small town in Ruacana, Northern Namibia. She approached me and asked me if she could buy cement from us - she wanted 20 bags and had the cash in hand.
Surprised, I asked her who would pick up the cement from our warehouse. She said she would make a plan and hire somebody to drop it off as she was going to build her own house. I was curious what she was actually building, so I volunteered to drop off...

This past weekend I was transformed. Our team was chosen to build a clinic compound for a very indigenous community in the northwest region Kunene, on top of the Zebra mountains, at a town called Otjomuru.
Background:
The people who live there are of a tribe called the Himba. This specific Himba sect has been marginalized and forgotten in history. The Deputy Prime Minister and my personal hero, Dr. Libertina Amathila found them lost in the mountains, marginalized...

 Max Kirschberg - September 3, 2016
Today, I had coffee with an amazing human - Max Kirschberg. He is a a holocaust survivor, who like many others lost his entire family and started from scratch at the age of 21, nothing to his name and mostly a nightmare of a childhood....

I spent the past 7 months in Santiago, Chile - pursuing Paulo Coelho's Secret of Happiness. One of my favorite authors, Coelho colored my road with his message in The Alchemist, and the passage that follows explains what I hope you will all take as a...