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May 24, 2008
13:31
Strandbiester
From: Kikuyumoja's realm

Tags: imagineering

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Who needs electricity btw if there’s someone like Theo Jansen?

It is so amazing!

Now where are these guys like Mubarak Muhammad Abdullahi or William Kamkwamba to take over? Oh, and check out this Phun version on YouTube.

Next: a wind-powered commuter train supplying Nairobi’s CDB with Githurai?
No, seriously, someone needs to turn these mechanisms into an Afrigadget asap!

11:41
Stop Reading and Thinking! Do Something Instead (Audio)
From: The Displaced African

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This podcast is dedicated to all my people who have read more information than they could ever use.

Just a thought: Ladies and gentlemen, though I am slowly beginning to feel comfortable behind the mic, I can see I am still far from being the presenter I want to be so let me promise you - so I can be accountable - that over time, I must improve my presentation skills on this podcast.

If you want to join me in this revolution to read less and do more, make sure you hear the latest headlines from the revolutionary mill via either RSS or email.

PS: If you are in South Africa or have folk living in South Africa, please check out some of these resources from White African that may be useful during this time of xenophobic attacks.

9:40
Ushahidi mapping xenophobia in africa
From: Black Looks

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The Ushahidi engine is being used to map xenophobic attacks in South Africa at the “United For Africa” website Tags: Xenophobia + South Africa Ushahidi SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ushahidi mapping xenophobia in africa", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/ushahidi_mapping_xenophobia_in_africa.html" });
5:35
Half-caste symphony, half ear, half head, half foot
From: Black Looks

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Via Poefrika This poem has a special meaning for me as I grew up in Nigeria being called “half-caste” and always despised the word and refused to acknowledge the term. Even today I meet Nigerians who continue to use the term either as a way of describing themselves or others leaving me cringing. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Half-caste symphony, half ear, half head, half foot", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/05/half-caste_symphony_half_ear_half_head_half_foot.html" });

4:54
Business Briefs – May 24
From: bankelele

Tags: Uchumi

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Business Briefs – May 24

4:08
Cheering Shameful Leadership from the Rear
From: You Missed This

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Wentangula's goofs over violence in South Africa and AU mediator Adeneji were apt examples of poor leadership and disastrous diplomacy. He can choose the cheap Kenyan politician escape of denial and claiming to have been misquoted BUT CAMERAS DON'T LIE. But then this Kenya were DECEPTION and living in serial self denial are revered virtues.

Just like lies you have to use fraud and deception to prop up fraudulent leadership. As a nation we have taken deception to new levels. We shamelessly rush to rally behind our GOOFING and FRAUDULENT tribesmen at the slightest criticism even when caught red handed napping on the job. Reasoning by DISPLACEMENT is our forte during such missions. We readily sanitize their ROTTING leadership using cheap comparison with their political rivals. That is why 5 years of Kibaki's misrule and rape is less ruinous compared to Moi's 24.

True leadership is measured by the amount of conviction and effort a leader puts forward to confront a challenge and not how many years you compare yourself with an IMBECILE. Deflection from the truth never makes the TRUTH change its colour nor shade. Wetangula's diplomatic goof is symptomatic of the present leadership INCOMPETENCE. Remove Annan and Adeneji (his successor) and there would be no country called Kenya to talk about in the first place. Well, haters of the truth will jump to cheap justification with buzzwords like LETS MOVE ON. And there lies DECEPTION and FRAUD extraordinary - bandaging the cancer and wishing it away. We must be our own worst enemies.

Led by the tail
We must call our scoundrels bluff. Until we discard TRIBAL lenses and look truth in face and squarely face to its demands we are unwittingly fooling ourselves that HEALING and PROSPERITY can be built without hard choices. We must replace DECEPTION with the useful HONESTY. There are no two ways about this. There has never been and it won't be. Faint hearts never won any battle leave alone war. Opting for cheap and quick fixes is our national bane. Indulge and soothe your TRIBAL ego if you must but you are only fooling yourself in expecting miracles out of the indulgence. Our present leaders are a disgrace at best and a disaster at worst. Bring them on.

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Strandbiester

Tags: imagineering

Stop Reading and Thinking! Do Something Instead (Audio)

Enclosure: [download]

Ushahidi mapping xenophobia in africa

Half-caste symphony, half ear, half head, half foot

Business Briefs – May 24

Tags: Uchumi

Cheering Shameful Leadership from the Rear