A place to submit your stories of failure in Africa. Rule: you must provide at least ONE alternative idea, or suggestion, on how this could have been a success.

What was your name again? Dar-es-Salaam?

Posted: July 21st, 2009 | Author: anonymouse | Filed under: Government Fail | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

Aparently towns go visiting Parliaments all willy nilly.

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I would suggest that they pay more attention to their work, yes?

Thanks to @nairobinotes for the heads up.


Magic Goat Detained for Armed Robbery

Posted: February 22nd, 2009 | Author: Bwana Fail | Filed under: Funny, Government Fail, Picture Fail | Tags: , , , , | No Comments »

From our friends at the FAILblog:

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“Magic Goat Detained for Armed Robbery: A goat is being held in police custody in Nigeria on suspicion of an attempted robbery of a Mazda 323 car.”


NigComSat - Disappeared Without A Trace!

Posted: January 30th, 2009 | Author: David | Filed under: Company Fail, Government Fail | Tags: , , | 2 Comments »

Nigeria’s $340m satellite (NigComSat-1) launched in May 2007 meant to bridge the digital divide turns out to be nothing short of a spectacular FAIL. In Nov 2008, the satellite suddenly disappeared without a trace leading to rumors of sabotage and a massive scam. Nigerian officials claim it had lost power and had to be “parked, like you would park a car”. It is supposedly now under repair (in space?).

That money could have been put to better use repairing Nigeria’s ailing infrastructure and creating employment.

AFRIFAIL!

This post was submitted by David.


Unnecessarily unnecessary

Posted: January 30th, 2009 | Author: Bwana Fail | Filed under: Failure, Funny, Government Fail, Picture Fail | Tags: , , | No Comments »

A (hi)story of bad signage:

“In an effort by the ministry of education to illustrate the concept of redundance to it’s students, the Ghanaian government had signs placed along the roadside. The funny thing is, there really aren’t very many bumps, just holes.”

Road bumps ahead... oh, really?

A couple more.