
Raphael Omondi
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Raphael Omondi
@Archie_Yeung
East Africa Safari Specialist | Wonderlust










The largest mud-brick structure in the world is the Great Mosque of Djenné, Mali, originally built between the 13th and 14th centuries and still in active use today. Its walls are sun-dried mud bricks called ferey, coated in mud plaster. Those wooden beams protruding from the facade aren’t decorative, they’re permanent scaffolding built into the structure so the community can climb and replaster every year after the rains wash it away. Remove that annual festival and this building disappears within years. That’s the real gap between Africa and Iran. Iran refined its earth techniques into fired, permanent structures over centuries. Djenné never made that leap. The knowledge exists. The material exists. The community commitment clearly exists. What’s missing is the refinement. This mosque deserves to be studied, not just celebrated. 📍 Great Mosque of Djenné, Mali 📷 Ethan Dixit (Image 3)


Last night, NASA launched a 10-day moonbound mission called Artemis II. This mission is a journey of 1 MILLION KILOMETERS. It is a figure-eight trajectory, looping out from Earth, around the Moon, and back again. It is a test mission for the next lunar exploration by Artemis III, scheduled for 2027, which will be conducted by a SpaceX spaceship. The last lunar exploration (Apollo 17) happened 53 years ago (December 1972). You can track the 10-day Artemis II Mission here: artemistracker.com Godspeed.






































