Stories about Kenya from September, 2006
Africa: renewable technologies
Africa Unchained writes, “Karekezi, S…surveys (PDF) the dissemination of renewable technologies in Sub-Saharan Africa…and attempts to evaluate the potential for these technologies to meet the energy needs of Africa’s poor…“
Kenya/Tanzania: Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania because Mombasa is in Kenya
“Mount Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania: because Mombasa is in Kenya,” reveals MyAfrica.
Kenya: know your MP
Kenyan Pundit asks, “What would you like to know about your MP?“
Kenya: making money online
Kumekucha writes about the top revenue generating Kenyan website: “In fact many Kenyans blogs and web sites have taken full advantage of innovative online revenue generating tools. Top on the list of online revenue generators has to be the amazing Google Adsense pay per click (ppc) programme. The Adsense program...
Africa: Africans ahead of rest of the world
Ethan offers four areas where Africa is leading the rest of the world.
Kenya: land grabbers become millionaires
Report: Land grabbers become millionaires in Kenya, via Kenyan Pundit.
Africa: Moving on from the digital indaba
Meskel Square on “Moving on from the Digital Indaba“: “Overall it was a huge success. One way of judging that is to look at all the discussions that are still carrying on in posts and comments and Technorati links. The discussions started with the race debate which I now wish...
Kenya: voters guide
A blogger's voters guide to Kenya's next general election.
Kenya: what Kenyans are saying about Odinga
Kumekucha Kisumu writes about Raila Odinga, the leading opposition politician in Kenya, “In Luo Nyanza Raila has cultivated a cult of personality that is the envy of many a politician. This cult has spawned myths that elevates Raila almost to the level of luo legends like Gor Mahia and Lwanda...
Africa: digital citizen indaba controversy
It is most likely that the organizers of the Digital Citizen Indaba on Blogging in South Africa did not anticipate the controversy that has dominated the African blogosphere for about two weeks now. The controversy, for the most part, has centred around the words, African and indaba. Indaba is a...
East Africa: Swahili text-to-speech software released
My Africa informs us about a new Swahili text-to-speech software released by the Local Language Speech Technology Initiative (LLSTI).
Kenya: is John Githongo a blogger?
Does Githongo have a blog?, asks Kenyan Entrepreneur. He also shares his views about the meeting between the American President, George Bush, and the Tanzanian President, Jakaya Kikwete, early this week.
Kenya: does the government want to control commission on human rights?
Kenyan Pundit posts a press release by the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights regarding allegations of corruption within the commission. It begins: “For many months, the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) has been aware of machinations by powerful State actors to weaken, control or close down the...
Kenya: government should support EASSy Project
N'Cho Blog posts a statement by the Kenyan Community Abroad urging the government of Kenya to support EASSy Project.
Kenya: “political instability”
African Affairs comments on the recent meeting between the Presidents of Tanzania and the US where the issue of “Kenya's political instability” was discussed: “The Monday meeting in New York between Presidents George Bush (US) and Jakaya Kikwete (Tanzania) was only good to a point. The suspect nature of the...
Kenya: ruling elite and younger generation
Kumekucha has an idea about what the President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki and his closest aides think of younger generation leaders, “My firm conviction is that the younger generation in this nation will confound critics and rise to the occasion, at this, the nation’s hour of need. It does not...
Kenyan military secrets revealed
A Kenyan blogger's reaction to a new published biography of General Lazarus Sumbeiywo, who was the chief negotiator of the Sudan peace process, “It is rapidly emerging that the new biography released by General Lazarus Sumbeiywo last week (written by East African Standard journalist Waithaka Waihenya) has many inconsistencies that...
The Maasai – Zulu battle of 2006
“One of the sessions covered this week was the controversial EASSy project which appears to have been now reduced to a Kenyan vs. South African affair,” writes Bankele, one of the Digital Citizen Indaba on Blogging participants.
Kenya: The president needs Swahili lessons
Kenyan Entrepreneur does not think the President of Kenya, Mwai Kibaki, should speak Sheng, which is neither an official nor a national language: “I mean, seriously…he keeps corrupting what is supposed to be the national language!“
Literature: Ngugi's radio interview
Black Star Journal points us to a radio interview of the Kenyan author, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, on his new novel, Wizard of the Crow.
Kenya/Uganda: wheelchairs for mobile phone booths
Afromusing blogs at Afrigadget about Ruud Elmendoorp video, wwhich shows how wheelchairs are converted into mobile phone booths in Kenya and Uganda.
