Stories about Kenya from December, 2006
Kenya: numbers do not lie
Bankele notes that numbers do not lie, people do, “Whether it's – Kenya to receive 5.8 billion in military aid, government creates 500,000 jobs, NGO plans to plant 1 million...
Kenya: DIY phone booth
Local innovation at work: the DIY phone booth in Kenya,”The person who modified it ripped an old Siemens C25 phone apart and installed its display instead of the one that...
Kenya: Kenyan videos online
Kenyans United is new site for Kenyan music videos, comedy, and documentaries, via Digital Africa.
Kenya/Tanzania: cultural differences
Africa Affairs blog has the fourth part of socio-cultural differences between Kenyans and Tanzanians. Links to previous posts on the subject are at the end.
Kenya/Tanzania: East Africa's old songs
Steve Ntwiga's musical link takes us to East Africa's Orchestra Mangelepa and Jamhuri Jazz Band.
Kenya: local innovation
AfriGadget has a picture of a water buoy that has been converted into a water tank.
Kenya: Kenyan parliament online
At last, the Kenyan parliament has a website.
Kenya: mandatory HIV tests
Coco supports the move by many churches in Kenya to require couples to take HIV tests before they get married.
Kenya: musical link
Steve Ntwiga posts a Swahili track, Christina, by the Kenyan band, Maroon Commandos: “So, lets kick off the weekend with just a little more of this group since we already...
Kenya: why was Dr. Robert Ouko killed?
You Missed This interviews Marianne Briner-Mattern, the author of The Shining Star in Darkness, about the death of Dr. Robert Ouko, who was the foreign minister of Kenya.
Tanzania/Kenya: differences between Kenyans and Tanzanians
African Affairs has some interesting observations about differences between Tanzanians and Kenyans.
Africa: speakers at TEDGlobal
A leading Kenyan blogger, Kenyan Pundit, is one of the speakers at an international conference taking place in Arusha, Tanzania next year. The list includes inventors, business-leaders, entrepreneurs, scientists, designers,...
