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Safe terms, Euphemisms, Distracting Discursive Projects: “White Privilege,” What’s in a Name?
» Black Looks also check me at kameelahwrites. —— Racialicious pointed me toward an awesome blog called the North Star which is “an online forum of discussion and debate maintained by black activist and justice-minded students at Yale University. By creating an easily-accessible online library of social and political commentaries, we strive to foster a community voice that calls for [...]
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16:28
the white toilet paper policy
» Kikuyumoja's realm To add a political side to this half German blog - considering that most German blogs are far far away from any political content - I could mention the recent…uhmm…let me call it “drama” where some German politicians actually tried to sue a few journalist on publishing a few confidential documents which were initially released by an inquiry board on a rather unimportant issue.
Unimportant, as the actual subject and content of the published material isn’t even mentioned these days. What matters is the assault on the free press, and how politicians are using the judiciary to silence a few unpleasant voices.*
Also, these politicians are the ones that send out experts to foreign countries to lecture about democracy. Yeah, right.
But I am not political. Instead, I will leave you with a memorable quote I found in an interesting paper that tries to implement a waste management concept on the United Nations Office at Nairobi (UNON) compound (dated November 2004):
“As UNON policy permits the use of white toilet paper only, Multiple Wastepaper Collectors (MWC) purchases white toilet paper for UNON. However, the toilet paper provided by MWC is not sufficient to meet the needs of the UN compound, so UNON procures additional white toilet paper from Chandaria or Pegant.” (source)
(* = That’s what the press says. I guess it actually is the other way round, as these politicians tried to hide a few issues from the masses and wanted to detect the leakage by bullying the press in the first place. But then…what would the world be without some valuable whistleblowers? Also: a free press is the best indicator for a working system.)
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10:59
It's Official: Free Press Ends In Kenya
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Press freedom in Kenya has suffered a major blow with the passing of the controversial Media bill which the Kibaki administration fought tooth and nail soaking in all sort of pressure to ensure that it was passed.
A clause cleverly sneaked in at the 11th hour forces journalists to divulge their source of information in the event that their articles or stories become the subject of a court case. This "sledge hammer" clause combined with the official secrets act that is still in place well over 40 years after independence, means that Anglo Leasing secrets and corruption in high places is safe from ever being unearthed.
The legendary Washington Post journalists who broke the Watergate scandal that forced President Richard Nixon's resignation got a tip off from somebody within government. It is highly unlikely that any such thing can ever happen in Kenya with the new media law in force.
It also means that no brave news source within the borders of the country is safe. They can always be exposed at any time. All somebody has to do is force the matter into court. Even criminals can now make use of this clause rather effectively to silence any would-be witnesses.
But I believe that Historians will also take note of one Mutahi Kagwe...
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Men Missing In Action As Second Liberation Kicks Off In Earnest
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The expert driver who maneuvered out of the Central Police Station with tyres screeching was in fact not a man but a Woman. A man probably won't have done it without running over the policeman who tried to block the car.
Men are known to make jokes about women drivers but this is one instance where many drivers who have viewed the dramatic Jack-Bower-like clip can only admire the driving.
When you also consider that most of the people we are seeing on the forefront of fighing for the second liberation are women, one cannot help asking themselves where the men are. Even the small group that camped outside CID headquarters to show solidarity with Health Minister Charity Ngilu when she was being held were mostly women.
So where are the men? Or do they just mostly prefer to...
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Death Penalty: 9th Parliament Displays Lots Of Ignorance
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The ignorance rampant in the 9th parliament and their total inability to think anywhere near outside the box was clearly illustrated when a bill seeking to outlaw the death penalty was thrown out without a second though and without much debate.
The legislators failed to note the fact that the death penalty in Kenya was in reality abolished 20 years ago, which was the last time the hangman alipata kibarua.. These days occupants of State house do not have the heart to sign the necessary papers to send offenders to the gallows. The result: they are congesting death row cells living in that terrible situation where you know you can walk to the gallows at any time but have no idea exactly when it will be.
The overpaid, mostly overweight MPs failed to note that...
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The Death Penalty In Kenya: Do You Support It?
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The death penalty has yet again been upheld by parliament. This is a sad day for Kenya with respect to human rights and also in the eyes of God most MPs are known to publicly abhor. I am totally opposed to this legistlation Chris, do you support it? Kenya has this law in the statutes but it doesn't practice death penalty beyond conviction, which is worse than those who practice like the USA.
Because Kenya still retains the death penalty, there are thousands of convicts on deathrow awaiting their date with the hangman noose. Although no executions have been carried out since 1987, one has to think and imagine what it feels like to wake up in jail each morning not knowing what it means to stay alive. And this goes on for these condemned individuals for up to 20 years! Is it really just and humane to keep a deathrow convict in suspense for period of time?
The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, treason, robbery with violence or attempted robbery with violence and for administration of an unlawful oath to commit a capital offence. A lot of people assume rape is a capital offence. Unless there is...
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New SMS campaign technique for Parliamentary and presidential elections in Kenya
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9:18
New stockbroker
» bankelele Finally a new stockbroker is going to be invited to join the lucrative club that is the Nairobi Stock Exchange. The number of shareholders has gone up approximately ten times from pre-Kengen IPO, but the number of stockbrokers, through which investors must trade their shares has been stuck at 18 all that time (currently 17 since Francis Thuo was suspended earlier this year).
It's only one seat to access this Kshs. 4 billion a year industry, but that can only improve the current situation. Who should win? Ideally a bank or financial institution with an extensive branch network. CFC bank - the only bank that's also a stockbroker has the widest reach nationwide when compared to several one office stockbrokers in Nairobi
Application details here and only firms that can qualify as a stockbroker or investment bank are eligible. The Application fee is Kshs 50,000 ($700) to the NSE, and 2,500 to the Capital Markets Authority. Applications should also include a company profile and statement of financial support/bank guarantee for the bid amount which is reported to have a reserve price of Kshs 150 million ($2 million). D/L of 13/8 is just over a week away.
Other News & Follow up's
- KTN reported that the housing Finance deal (buy in by Equity) could be in jeopardy owing to a burden of borrower lawsuits that could be a major liability for the bank since the introduction of in duplum rules to the banking sector. (One plaintiff won a major case against the bank last month)
- I & M: Two European development finance institutions take up a 12% stake in I&M - Kenya’s 11th largest bank
- NIC shareholders will this month be asked to vote on right issue and bonus share - in addition to modifying the company laws to expand the bank beyond Kenya, enter insurance, custodial, and investment banking, and allow unclaimed dividends by to be reinvested by the Bank until a shareholder shows up to claim them
- Welcome to the Kenya, land of milk & honey: The Safaricom IPO honey pot has attracted interest from BNP Paribas, Citicorp, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley and other banking, financial and legal giants
- Next week’s East African reports on a proposed merger in the cement industry between Bamburi and East African Portland Cement companies.
- As expected parliament, without a legitimate quorum, passed the media bill
- Weak laws and evasion are robbin Kenya of tax money.
Opportunities
- Borrow up to Kshs 1,000,000 at 0% interest from Halaal Credit, but eligible only to Kenyan Sunni Muslims.
- Diaspora conference; a conference dubbed Incorporating the Preparatory Kenya Diaspora Home-Coming Forum will take place at KICC on 14-16 August, 2007. some issues will be exploring investment opportunities in Kenya, debate the Diaspora bill 2007 , building partnerships between European and African private and public sector stakeholders, SME and Diaspora sectors be mainstreamed into vision 2030, and proposal that an annual Kenya Diaspora Homecoming week be held every August of each year. Details can be got from info@kenyadiaspora.go.ke
- Design a logo and come up with a motto for the Kenya Investment Authority :
some jobs
- AON: retail broking manager, senior business development executive (health). Apply to HR@aon.co.ke by 17/8
- Chief executive officer at the export processing zones authority. Apply through manpower associates by 14/8
- KCB: branch managers, business banking managers. Apply to recruitment@kcb.co.ke by 17/8
- Safaricom: Investigator, senior fraud analyst, senior information security officer, senior information systems auditor, and a dozen technical jobs. Apply to
hr@safarciom.co.ke by 10/8
- UAP: Relationship officer, internal risk surveyor, agricultural underwriter. Apply to recruitment@uapkenya.com.
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6:30
HOT ECONOMY!
» assidous * KCB posts Ksh2.1B pre tax profit.
* Celtel International relocates its Africa Office from Netherlands to Nairobi.
* BBK posts a Ksh3.5B pre tax profit.
* KRA de-registers 200+ cars that whose duty and taxes was under-paid when they were having teething problems with the Simba Sytem. Most of the cars are KAU and KAV prefixed.
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1:25
IBM Thinks Africa
» The Benin Epilogue Part I: Africa-Ready for Business 
About three months ago I received a rather short and nondescript comment in my guest book. Now around the same time I had been receiving spam comments and the like, so I didn't pay the visitor's words much mind. About one or two weeks after that I received an email from someone who said they were from IBM-huh? And the email had something to do with Africa. Ok, that got my attention. So, I read the email again, just to make sure that it was real. Indeed it certainly appeared so. The letter conveyed that IBM was working on putting a small panel together-sort of like a think tank, consisting of about 30 people, and the focus of these "deep dive" sessions would be to brainstorm about economic progress on the African continent. They are calling this forum the IBM Global Innovation Outlook (GIO) and this series is titled IBM GIO Think Africa.
To make a long story short, I accepted the invitation and attended the event. What a treat it was to event to attend this event. One of the highlights for me was participating on a discussion about the impact that the continent's informal economies have had upon the lives of the participants of the event, as well as the overall impact upon the continent's economies. I also had a chance to sit down with an IBM vice-president to talk about the company's strategy on the continent. The post will be published on African Path this week. Perhaps even more major, though, were the one-on-one connections that I was able to make while there. There was a NEPAD official, several university professors, a Ghanaian King, several fortune 500 executives, two university students, and several others.
Here is a snippet from the GIO blog summarizing the event:"Hubert Danso, vice chairman of the African Investment Advisory Group at NEPAD, spent years shopping positive business stories around to the international media types. He got nothing but lip service. So he finally decided that if he wanted the stories of Africa’s burgeoning economic prowess and entrepreneurial spirit to reach the world, he was going to have to tell those stories himself. Danso is now the managing editor of Africa Investor magazine. It’s as slick as anything you’d pick up on a New York newsstand, has top-notch research, and relentlessly covers business issues in and around the continent. If you want to get the other side of the business climate story in Africa, it’s a must-read.
Other deep dive participants have broached the idea of a news portal that focuses exclusively on positive stories coming out of Africa."
You may find out more about the IBM deep dives by visiting their blog here. Otherwise, be on the lookout to hear what an IBM Vice President has to say about doing business in Africa. Please stay tuned!
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