February 11, 2012
Below is a brief interview I had with Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop earlier this week at the mLab in Nairobi, Kenya. Mr. Elop was visiting Kenya to talk to Mobile Application Developers as well as bloggers like me. His visit was highly anticipated and the security provided by G4S at the mLab was formidable. I was invited for a bloggers roundtable with him but due to a meeting that ran late...
February 10, 2012
- Call for Papers: Murderous inclusions special issue Guest editors: Jin Haritaworn, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Adi Kuntsman, The University of Manchester Silvia Posocco, Birkbeck, University of London Sexual citizenship is usually examined though the lens of inclusion – into rights, legal and political subjecthood – through sexuality. What has received less scholarly attention is the problem of [...]
- Wednesday's launch of SuperSport 9 (SS9) East is a major boost to sports media development in the Eastern Africa. Broadcasting in the Swahili language, the channel will provide live coverage, expert analysis as well as commentaries pre and post-game and weekends. It will also have programming specifically tailored for the Eastern & Central Africa market.
... - For you the Kenyan football fan, the action is back on Kenyan pitches, this time with bigger and better oomph than ever. Flurry of activity has been going on in the changing rooms as well as the technical benches for most of the teams. This year's league retains the 16 team set up (though the lower previously known as Nationwide League now named Kenya Division One attracts 2 Zones Western & Eastern each with 16 teams).
New sides promoted include Muhoroni Youth who make a debut... - You can always count on Queen Bey to be on top of the latest fashion trends. I would never have dared to wear a body belt necklace but Bey showed us how to work it in her ‘Girls Who Run The World Video’ last year. She pulled it off so effortlessly that we are now [...]
- 'I can see a caterpillar.' - statement of fact.
'No you can't.'
'Yes I can.'
'No you can't.'
'Yes I can.'
'Nonsense.'
We are all sitting around the table for Sunday lunch (outside). This reminds me of conversations I used to have around the table as a child - history is repeating itself - but that was another era.
'Well, where is it then?' My husband demands, stalking around the table.
'There.'
'What there?' ...
February 9, 2012
My (lightly edited) comments at GWU today. I’m not sure where this particular avenue is headed, but it helped me clarify some thinking about race and the academy and the role of the minority professor.
*Today we believe in the possibility of love, and that is the reason why we are endeavoring to trace its imperfections and perversions.—Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon is not someone we turn to for advice on love. Far from it. His biographer, David Macey, claims that if...
I’m not a feminist; nor am I whatever the antonym of a feminist is. I am just a person who believes in equality, and I shall not rest until men have equal access to contraception!
In the whole debate over women’s “reproductive health”, and “rights to privacy”, and all the other PC labels that rights’ groups have thrown on the issue surrounding what to do when a woman gets pregnant, I think they have missed out on the obvious: That a woman’s health is never in jeopardy (since pregnancy...