"A police officer lights a bonfire of confiscated rifles at the Lake Tanganyika stadium in Kigoma, Tanzania.  Some 2,000 guns were surrendered last year under a program to rid the country of illegal weapons."  (Click here for larger image.)

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Kristian Von Hornsleth's exhibit which will display pictures of Ugandans from the village of Buteyongera has sparked controversy.

In exchange for a pig or a goat, Hornsleth is persuading the villagers to adopt his name. 100 villagers already have identity documents with their new names and 207 more are currently having documents processed. Eventually, he would like to change the village's name.

Although the villagers back Hornselth's exhibit, others feel that Hornsleth's idea is "demeaning" and "racist".

"After 50 years of Third World aid, Africa is still poor," Hornsleth told the BBC's World Today programme.

He said his proposal to the villagers was an example of free trade, which left the villagers better off.

Hornsleth says he is helping the villagers and making a point
But Ugandan Ethics Minister Nsaba Buturo said the idea was "demeaning" and "racist".

"He is playing on the plight of some of our people by telling them a lie - by giving them a piglet, they will come out of the poverty he says they are in," the minister said.

Zachary and I were watching Sesame Street this morning and Grover was telling us about galimotos which are "motorcars" made by African children. 

The children gather spare wheels and scraps of wire (or sticks and cornstalks) and then bend and twist the wire to form toy cars.  What's really neat about these galimotos is that the children use a long stick (or wire) to attach the fully-functional steering wheels to the cars so they don't have to crouch down to push their cars around.  I guess you could call them the first "remote-controlled" cars.