Ben E. Hama's definitions

comoros

tiny little island nation off the indian ocean coast of africa. a former french colony, it was a military dictatorship until 2006. it is a very poor country, despite it's potential for tourism. it's military is extremely efficent for its tiny size.

comoros seems like it should be richer than it is.

by Ben E. Hama February 5, 2007

mozambique

mozambique is a country in africa. it was a long time posession of portugal, but was basically owned through most of the 1800s and early 1900s by a corpoartion known as the nissa company. this organization, of course, ran mozambique into the ground. portugal held on this place until their own upheaval in the 1970s. since then, mozambique has been typical africa with coups, civil wars, aids, and poverty.

mozambique is trying to fix it's economy.

by Ben E. Hama February 6, 2007

vanuatu

a little pacific island company, vanuatu was colonized by the spanish, french, and british over its history. it became independent in 1980, and it has seen coups and countercoups ever since. vanuatu is the ultimate tax haven and it has little business regulations. questionable companies tend to incorporate here.

kazaa is officially registered in vanuatu because this nation's gov't doesn't question its actions.

by Ben E. Hama February 7, 2007

tajikistan

a country NOT in the middle east, despite being heavily islamic. this asian nation was one of the soviet republics that became independent in 1990. after it became sovergn, it plunged into civil war. the nation has rich natural resources and is a leading cotton and aluminum producer. unfortunately, it is currently a faux democracy, ruled by a former soviet official.

tajikistan is not a middle eastern country.

by Ben E. Hama February 4, 2007

mali

once the home of a great african empire, and later a french colony, mali is a west african nation. it was a single party state for many years, walking an interesting but disasterous line between marxism and islamic fundamentalism. it's a very poor nation, with no economic activities in the barren interior.

bamako is the captial of mali.

by Ben E. Hama February 6, 2007

gambia

a little strip of land along a river of the same name. completely surrounded by the nation of senegal. nation that saw coup after coup unitl democracy finally began to work in the a few years ago. if you look at a map, gambia looks kind of like a penis.

in order to write his famous book 'roots', alex haley observed what tribal life was like in the gambia.

by Ben E. Hama January 31, 2007

antigua and barbuda

little tiny carribean country that used to be under british rule. currently, it consists of a pair of islands that seem to exist soley for american, canadian, and european toruist dollars.

antigua and barbuda has nice beaches

by Ben E. Hama January 31, 2007