· January, 2006

Stories about Kenya from January, 2006

Kenyan: Childhood beatings

Childhood beatings is the subject of KenyanMusings…commenting on her nephew who she describes as the “most spoilt child I know” and returns to his/her own childhood “I got beatings for...

18 January 2006

Kenya: Returning home

The topic of returning home is currently popular in the African blogosphere. Here ThinkersRoom writes an imaginery two week visit by a Kenyan to her/his homeland then goes on to...

18 January 2006

Africa: buy a goat

“a chance to ‘buy a sheep, a goat or some chickens from FARM AFRICA.”? Bullets & Honey comments on this latest scheme on saving poor Africans…..”Imagine how good you will...

17 January 2006

African Music Roundup

World Music. Lazy term. Music out of Africa is so rich it deserves it’s own full section in any major music store. but I could argue with the marketing department...

17 January 2006

Kenya: Woman boxer

Bankelele posts some advice on buying stocks, the price of veggies in Kenya resulting in him being served cabbage with his fish lunch and one to watch…. Kenyan boxer Congestina...

16 January 2006

Kenya: poor woman's printing press

Kenyan Pundit writes a response to an article in Kenyan Daily Nation, on the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) campaign against misuse of public resources by government officials....

16 January 2006

Female UN Secretary General

Mshairi reports on a campaign to appoint a woman as UN Secretary General when Kofi Annan retires – possibly at the end of this year.

16 January 2006

Kenya: Life in the other side of town

Kikuyumoja’s realm uses a photo to highlight the contradictions of life in Africa as whilst some people in an “informatl settlement” can afford to watch the English premier league others...

13 January 2006

Kenya: drought

What an African Woman Wants considers the reports on drought in Northern Kenya…I'll bet you the shirt on your back that just around the corner we will be ‘surprised’ by...

12 January 2006

Kenya: Women

Feminist African Sister has a poem that addresses the issuesof violence against women…”I wonder then, why they sell me at 12 years old. To a 20 year old school drop...

11 January 2006

KenyanSphere – Opening 2006

Ms K has a stirring piece on safe and responsible sex, especially in these liberal times, urging people to protect themselves. Mama JunkYard opens the new year with the shocking...

10 January 2006

East Africa: famine

Yebo Gogo writes that there is a famine in East Africa…”A drought is plaguing East Africa and people are starving. The government of Zanzibar is rationing water. The Kenyan press...

9 January 2006

Kenya: bloggers meetup

Nicholas Gichu reports on the latest Kenyan blogger meetup in Nairobi attended by: Gishungwa, Guess, Shiroh, Milo, Thinker, and Blue Poet, MentalAcrobatics, Kenyan Pundit and Daud el Raud.

9 January 2006

Lake Victoria: falling water levels

African Water Journalists Blog points to a report in the Ugandan daily – the Monitor – on the falling water level in Lake Victoria. The result is less fish, less...

9 January 2006

Kenya: Un-affirmative action

Bankelele comments on the affirmative action programme that enables rural children to enter schools with lower scores than their urban peers. Parents of urban children are now considering allowing their...

6 January 2006

Kenya: Kyoto Treaty

What good is the Kyoto Treaty really? Curious presents the argument that the Kyoto treaty is not the problem. The problem is how it will be used…”Kyoto treaty will not...

5 January 2006

Kenya: Foucault, Nietzsche etc

African Bullets and Honey posts an email conversation with a friend “Some Email Considerations on the African Bush and its European Saviour”... ………”Below are some emails that I exchanged with...

5 January 2006

Kenya: Trivia

For the “trivia people” Kenyan Pundit points to BBC's 100 things you didnt know this time last year!

4 January 2006