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12:57
From: You Missed This
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archiveThe political future of Uhuru Kenyatta does not look too bright just now. To start with Kanu are due to meet next week to officially announce the person they will support for the presidency. This will be a mere formality as powerful party members have made no secret of who their preferred candidate is. It is the incumbent President Mwai Kibaki. This puts Uhuru in an impossible situation. Supporting Kibaki will cripple his kind of politics and render him virtually impotent. Yes he has no other choice because as current party leader he has to lead by example. On the other hand in the unlikely event that he decides to rebel, he will be faced with the prospect of possibly losing his parliamentary seat. The naked truth is that you can sell many things to the Kikuyu community but one thing that you will not convince the majority of them to do in 100 years, is to... Read moreAll you need To Make Big Money Online while still in Kenya is an email address and a mobile phoneHow To Make Serious Money Using Blogs Or Generate Plenty Of Traffic For Your Site. It Is So Easy, Expert Explains
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12:55
From: You Missed This
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archiveDetails are emerging about one of the Kenyans shot dead by Tanzanian police on allegations that she was part of a group about to rob a bank in Moshi. It seems that the well like entrepreneur, Ann Nyakanyi King’ara may have been an innocent victim who may have been at the wronmg place at the wrong time. One source in Nairobi told Kumekucha; “I am certain that Anne Nyakanyi King'ara had nothing to do with the botched 'plot' to rob the Moshi bank. I've known Anne for 20 plus good years and done heavy business deals with her. She was a real angel true to her word. I never fell out with her and I don't know anyone who has.” The source continues; “Actually I had just seen her recently at... Read moreAll you need To Make Big Money Online while still in Kenya is an email address and a mobile phoneHow To Make Serious Money Using Blogs Or Generate Plenty Of Traffic For Your Site. It Is So Easy, Expert Explains
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12:53
From: You Missed This
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archiveSir, I don’t really care if you publish this or not; I don’t also really care if Raila Odinga reads it or not; most likely he will: I am very respectful to him, no doubt about this. I have a few Luo friends and I am also very respectful to them, but there is one trait I notice, and perhaps this will help them, and Raila too, I am not convinced, though, but they should look at this with an open mind. Those my Luo friends have one dominant characteristic; they do not accept to lose in a discussion, albeit grudgingly. Most people have this trait though, but it is very dominant in my Luo friends. Look at our football in those days of Gor Mahia and AFC Leopards, look at politicians when they go to Kisumu and they are not approved those days by Odinga and now his son. Why has it to happen only when Luos are involved? Every adult Kenyan of over 50 years and above can... Read moreAll you need To Make Big Money Online while still in Kenya is an email address and a mobile phoneHow To Make Serious Money Using Blogs Or Generate Plenty Of Traffic For Your Site. It Is So Easy, Expert Explains
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12:50
From: You Missed This
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archiveMaureen Nyakaira named as Miss East Africa UK 2007 The much anticipated Miss East Africa UK 2007 finally took place on 1st September at the prestigious Conway Hall, London. The event saw 21 year old Ugandan medical physics student Maureen Nyakaira steal the crown under a very stiff competition from contestants from Tanzania, Malawi, Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea. Maureen, who is a student at Cardiff University in Wales, expressed a mixed reaction to winning the crown. “I will remember this night for the rest of my life, at first I was shocked, Is it me really? But then that was my number they called,” she said. Meanwhile the crowd cheered as the humble beauty claimed the prestigious title. However the Head judge of the night Actress Rachel Ritfeld described Maureen as humble, graceful and very natural and she would go along way in raising awareness for East African under privileged children. Miss East Africa UK was attended by... Read more All you need To Make Big Money Online while still in Kenya is an email address and a mobile phoneWHY BUY 10, 20 or 30 COMPUTERS WHEN 1,2OR3 WILL DO? DO MORE WITH LESS!!! NO NEED OF CLONES, GENERICS OR REFURBISHED COMPUTERS ANY MORE Expand on your existing Office or Home PC by simply adding the NComputing terminals for every user (up to 30 users per PC). This amazing and cost effective technology will save up to 70% on PC procurement and 95% of power consumption. Share applications with all connected users simultaneously. Install out of the box in minutes!!! Visit our website: www.pneumaticskenya.com How To Make Serious Money Using Blogs Or Generate Plenty Of Traffic For Your Site. It Is So Easy, Expert Explains
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12:37
From: tHE mEDiCinEmAn
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 September? Is that the month already? I have to say, I must have been amazingly lazy or incredibly busy these couple of months. And which is it? Well, a bit of both actually, and so much has been happening. .
For one, I got done with maternity..
Praise God? (Did I hear an Amen?) 3 months of sleepless calls and tonnes of work. I would describe maternity, for lack of stronger adjectives, as laborious and painstaking. Not to mention the kind of pressure everyone puts on you. If anything so much as goes wrong, then you’ll have to explain why 10 minutes after being called, you were still trying to find the bearings out of your bed..
Weekends lost meaning, because more often than not, I’d be on the maternity floor, or theatre working as usual. More of my tales of terror with pregnant women later though.
I’ve now done 2 months of Internal Medicine and have one more to go. This is probably the most relaxing department ever! The calls are light, no emergency surgeries at night and I mustn’t forget the free afternoons…
Then got my internet connection (finally!) and now I’m on the information superhighway like a fish to water. So much to read and learn on the net, that even sparing a moment for my blog has been difficult. But I’m confident that this is the first of many more posts to come. tHE mEDiCinEmAn.
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11:43
From: Rants, Raves & Reviews
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Olympia Capital Holdings has a Rights Offer pending. The final date for trading the Rights is 14 Sep 2007. The final payment date is 28 Sep 2007. The current outstanding shares are 10,000,000 with 30,000,000 Rights on offer. The regular shares trade volume is relatively low (see MyStocks for graphing) and if they trade 5,000 shares, it is considered a huge deal! Therefore the total Rights traded today were 5,170,200 (yes, over 5mn)... Wow! That is 17% of all outstanding Rights on offer. Generally when someone buys Rights, it means that they will be exercised. In comparison only 3,300 shares were traded at 16/- so there seems to be a bottom reached. There are 3 more trading days for the Rights so let's see how this develops.
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10:15
From: White African
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As you might have realized from past posts here, I enjoy computer gaming. I just recently came across a new game called “The Village” that is being created to simulate a third-world village. Your goal is to use your entrepreneurial spirit to raise this village out of poverty.
It’s a “multiplayer online real-time strategy game that immerses the player into the role of an entrepreneur building companies to bring prosperity to the villages of the third world.”
At first glance you might find this concept superfluous. After all, what practical use can gamers in the West have on the real problems in places like Africa? Let me try and explain why I think it could be useful…
It’s not just about playing a game - it’s about attention, ideas, and change through collaboration.
Attention
Getting the attention of people in the West in this time of overwhelming media blitzes is difficult. People are interested however, and creating one more avenue for people to find out about the situation in places like Africa is a good thing. Gaming opens up the world to a whole new demographic, and a game like the Village provides a non-overt educational component.
Ideas
Assuming the Village is an open enough game, there could be some very creative business, engineering and technological ideas that come out of it. If done right, the game could become a platform to test and prove out ideas before doing a pilot project or investing in a business in real life.
Collaboration
This is where the idea behind the Village truly comes into its best light. Collaboration player-to-player and between players and real world villagers is highly intriguing. The idea of drawing a line between those in the developed world and those in the developing world is very attractive. Think micro-level investment and idea sharing.
If the Village is developed to be fun, open and has the right type of interaction levels between users and people on the ground in the third world, it could be a very exciting project indeed. I particularly like the idea of it being a solution for education and for growing wealth through investment. In this case it’s not investment just by large organizations, but by ordinary people (just like Kiva).
If you are interested in helping, find out how you can here.
(hat tip GlobaLab)
 
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10:02
From: Kenya Imagine
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Read as Don Wainaina narrates an assault on his pumbler. That afternoon my wife showed me a small article in the local paper about a man who was the victim of a serious assault. He lost his phone, wallet and several teeth in the incident. Police believed that the attack was linked to a recent series of muggings in the area. Read more here.
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9:56
From: My part of the world.......
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Reason 2032 why Aco is going to Hell - Curiosity beyond boundaries Yesterday there was this chic who gave me a ride. I didn't know this chic that well but she gave out that, "If you talk to me nicely maybe I'll let you hit it" vibe. Even though I have been on the B-train for sometime now, I am still choosy so I kept the conversation above board. Anyway at one point she had to stop at a gas station and stepped out. So here I was, alone in an interesting person's car. What did I do? I let my curiosity get the better of me, so what I did was open her glove compartment just to take a peek and get to know her a bit better. So what do I find in there? A thong and small bottle of pills, so I looked at the pills, memorised the name of the meds and looked them up when I got home. The pills were azithromycin, one of the things that antibiotic treats is an STD in addition to innocus conditions like ear, nose and throat infections. So the question my dear friends, are the thong and the medicine mutually exclusive? Several scenarios come to mind 1. In case of any hot back seat SUV action happening, there is always the need for a fresh change of underwear and a dose of antibiotics to prevent an outbreak of a pre-existing condition. 2. In case of any hot back seat SUV action happening, no underwear is worn but just in case there is an important appointment; it's good to have some nearby. The antibiotics, a pre-emptive measure. 3. Due to quite a few thongs being lost after some hot back seat SUV action, it was always necesary to have some spare underwear handy. The antibiotics? After too much hot back seat SUV action, there have to be some consequences. 4. She bought the underwear after regular shopping but forgot it in the car, while the antibiotics are for a routine infection. 5. Underwear doesnt let the lady parts breathe but is always carried just in case, while the antibiotics were bought for a friend. 6. Someone knew I would be taking a ride with her and planted both articles in her glove compartment so as to make her look bad in my eyes. Anyway, honestly who cares? The lesson I learned, some glove compartments are worse than handbags, you don't know what you'll find in there. Good thing I'm not going to see that chic every again. Moving on, The MTV Video Music Awards were on yesterday. Britney Spears has completed her metamorphosis from Pop Princess to ............. I don't even have words for it. I'm sure many a dude was unable to get it up after whacking off to her poster for years after her flabby physique was seared into the minds.  The Past  The Present In other VMA news which I know few of you care about but I will share anyway. Tommy Lee and Kid Rock, two of Pamela Anderson's exes (she's the girl who was in Baywatch with the big tatties and was also in Kanye's Touch The Sky video) decided to express their differences with their fists and caused a ruckus during Alicia Keys performance. Anyway Jammie Foxx was presenting an award soon after that and left Jennifer Garner hanging as he swayed from the script. Dude might have a big ego and all but he's still got that comedian in him!
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9:00
From: tHiNkEr'S rOoM
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During the course of a honest day's work, I inevitably have to read several business and technical proposals, heavy with an increasingly common dialect of English called sales talk. With each 30 page proposal, I am stunned with the ability of sales people to talk at length without actually saying anything ...
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5:02
From: Kenyan Pundit
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I was interviewed by BBC Outlook about Mzalendo yesterday, the questions were great and I think the interview came out pretty well (it’s always painful to listen to myself on radio/tv though). Click here to listen, the story is at the very end.
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3:52
From: Mentalacrobatics
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Colonialists would often turn up at an African community and ask, “Who does that land belong to?” pointing to the vast fields around the village. Many times the reply from the villagers would be, “It does not belong to anyone.” The colonialists would then promptly set about fencing and craving up the land amongst themselves, which would enrage the Africans, which, in turn, would confuse the colonialists as, after all, they had been told that this land did not belong to anyone.
These exchanges highlight the differences in the cultures involved and the different understandings of what initially looks like a very simple situation. When the Africans tell the colonialists that this land does not belong to anybody, the colonialists would take that to mean that the land is unoccupied. “It does not belong to anyone” is taken to mean it is ownerless. That was a misunderstanding of what they had been told. For when the African said, “This land does not belong to anyone”, what they mean is this land does not belong to any single person or family. This land is the property of the community under the stewardship of those who currently occupy it. The Elesi of Odogbolu, a Nigerian chief, told the West African land commission in 1912, that he “conceived that land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living and countless yet unborn”. In other words, “this land does not belong to anyone” meant this land belongs to everyone. It is occupied by us, but we do not own it, we are merely the current stewards holding it for future generations.
In my talk during the Digital Citizen Indaba I touched upon the issue of the African blogosphere and ownership asking, “Who owns the African blogosphere”? I used the above example of our ancestors’ attitude to land as the basis of my understanding. In my opinion the internet is a space through which discussion takes place and blogs are the tool through which we utilise that space for discussion. In other words this space we have carved on the internet is our land and bloggers are the occupiers of that land. Like our ancestors I believe that this land does not belong to any of us, it belongs to all of us.
Why is this important? First of all this space belonging to all of us means that there is room for all of us and for all our opinions in that space and we all have an equal right to it. For example those who feel unrepresented in the main stream media can use this space to get their message across. Those who feel left out of the national conversation can use this space to get their message across. Ndesanjo in his keynote address emphasised this highlighting that several Africans who happen to be gay had used this space to express themselves through blogs, several Africans who happen to be white or of Asian origin had used this space to express themselves through their blogs.
Another example, last year during the time of the first DCI there was a passionate, and at times, heated debate about whether a blogging conference organised largely by South Africans, who happened to be white, and held at a university named after Rhodes, had the right to call itself African. I felt then as I do now that, yes, they had the right to call it a conference of African bloggers. I feel no one has the right to stop other bloggers from organising themselves in a way they feel fit. Once you start putting restrictions on how bloggers organise themselves then you are on the slippery slope that ends up with putting restrictions on what bloggers can write about. For if you think that these guys do not have the right to organise a conference for African bloggers do they have the right to write about African bloggers or as African bloggers?
I should clarify the difference between those who objected to the content of the conference and those who object to the very notion of the conference. The DCI crew never claimed to be organising a perfect conference and gave us the opportunity to give our feedback on what they did right and what they could do better. This year you can see they took the suggestions on board. A big issue last year was the DCI venue did not have wireless internet access, this year we had wireless internet access. Last year we raised the issue of representation amongst the speakers in terms of geographical location and content. This year we have spent a lot of time examining the role of language which was led by Tanzanian bloggers with their central role in the Kiswahili blogosphere. We also looked at cyber activism is Ethiopia and Zimbabwe as well v-blogging, photo-blogging and open source. Space to give feedback and raise issues about the content of a conference should always be available. Feedback I have no problem with. What I object to is those who feel that the conference itself had no right to exist in any form.
That is not to say that all bloggers must agree with all other bloggers all the time or even most of the time. In fact we do not have to agree at all! I hope that having disagreements and differences of opinion does not mean we can not sit down together at the end of the debate and appreciate each other. But if that is not the case, the good thing about this space we are carving on the internet is that it is basically limitless. If you do not like the way people are doing things you can start your own thing. Just do not try to stop people from doing what they are doing by placing artificial restrictions based on your opinion of what is and isn’t for they have as much right to this space as you do.
 digital citizen indaba |  highway africa
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2:16
From: Black Looks
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I want to see you dance
among blue-pale wisps
at night, when shebeens are dense
with the factory worker,
and bone-shaking mbaqanga*
fills the shack. I want to see you
dance with your body that quakes
as you slide aside to let a rhythm by,
only to pick up some other tones
heading away against the force
of shriller, more common notes,
trembling to this sound [...]
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1:43
From: Rants, Raves & Reviews
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The tools offered by mystocks keep on improving. I am surprised the site is still free for users. I would recommend using it while it is free! The tools include: - Portfolio Tracker - Stocks Drill (basic for now) - Graphing & comparison capabilities (including accounting for bonuses & splits) I have some issue with the way the details on the live feed are displayed but I understand they are working on it. I like seeing "depth" on the trades. There is a "mystocks+" that is geared towards corporate users. Kudos to the enterprising Kenyan(s).
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