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 screwing up. I got beatings, slippers, belts, sucker punches, water pipes, kicks and sticks, ngotos, hot burning ears and crying...
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 discuss how things would change for the better if Kenyans began returning home and contributing to the building of the...
Kenya: Myth of economic boom
You missed this points to an open letter by an investor who writes that Kenya's economic boom is a myth.
East Africa: photo gallery
Kikuyumoja’s realm has some cool photos of East Africa 50 years ago…
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 feel when you add a good deed to your vacation. ‘Not only will you be helping a worthy cause like...
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 all day. My name is Obi and welcome to my first music blog roundup focusing on what’s buzzing on the...
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 Achieng who is looking for a fight with Lelia Ali if she is able to get the right management behind...
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. Her reply was turned down by the Nation's editor so she has reproduced it on her blog“. Blog = poor...
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.
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 can hardly afford a soda.
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 floods in Budalangi and the havoc they will wreak. But I've said my bit about what our government ought to...
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 out. In the name of marriage. What is the value of a gormless, form less object? I can only imagine...
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 information that someone has been sending email in her name, another victim of the unsavoury practice of email spoofing by...
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 has dubbed it the “Christmas Famine,” and Nairobi recently announced it would buy all available stocks of corn to distribute.”
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.
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 domestic water and an increase in water borne diseases like bilharzia.
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 kids to take their exams in the rural areas thereby ensuring them places at “coveted national schools”
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 be the cause of the hindrance to economic growth in poor countries, but it will be the mechanism through which...
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 one of my closest friends (PK) just after reading James Miller's great essay, ‘Carnivals of Atrocity: Foucault, Nietzsche, Cruelty,’ (in...
Kenya: Trivia
For the “trivia people” Kenyan Pundit points to BBC's 100 things you didnt know this time last year!
