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23:32
From: bankelele
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Insurance Company of East Africa Assets 19,151 million [19.15 billion or ~ $309 million] (profit of 545 million) [$8.8 million]
Kenya Reinsurance 14,710 (965 million)
Jubilee Insurance 12,459
British American Insurance 10,252 (512)
Kenindia Assurance 9,886
UAP Insurance 7,245 (888)
Old Mutual Life Assurance 6,447
CFC life -- (255 million profit)
Heritage AII 4,522 (364)
APA Insurance 4,491
Lion of Kenya Insurance 3,722 (179)
Phoenix (East Africa) Assurance 3,669 (103)
Blue Shield 3,109
Kenya Alliance 2,798
Madison Insurance 2,751
Cooperative Insurance 2,437 (140)
AIG Kenya Insurance 2,337 (217)
General Accident Insurance 2,192 (216)
Cannon Assurance 2,163 (60)
First Africa Assurance 1,781 (103)
Apollo Insurance 1,774
Geminia Insurance 1,223 (24)
Fidelity Shield 1,194 (98)
Trident Insurance 1,178 (54)
Real Insurance 1,107 (92)
Gateway Insurance 1,058
Tausi Assurance 949 (2)
Occidental Insurance 937 (63)
Mercantile Insurance 910 (34)
Standard Assurance 896 (6)
East Africa Re 872 (119)
Intra Africa Assurance 855
Corporate Insurance 809 (23)
Concord Insurance 757 (28)
Directline Assurance 730
Monarch Insurance 683 (9)
Amaco 674 (43)
Pioneer Assurance 508 (4)
Mayfair insurance 478 (-1)
Kenya Orient 443 (19)
Metropolitan Insurance 437
PACIS 220 (27)
Trinity Life Assurance 219
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18:35
From: Kikuyumoja's realm
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Just a short note on an interesting e-mail I’ve received today on the ecosanres Yahoo!Group on ecological sanitation: The (dutch NGO) WASTE “on behalf of the Programme Board of the INTEGRATED SUPPORT FOR A SUSTAINABLE URBAN ENVIRONMENT (ISSUE) programme” puts out an open tender for Knowledge Centres with tasks related to sanitation and waste mangement.
This is an invitation for a bid for the provision and distribution of ‘knowledge’ for the implementing partners of the ISSUE programme for a period ending on December 31, 2010. …Interested parties who have the pre-requisite experience in running and managing Knowledge Centres are requested to submit technical and financial proposals and any other supporting documentation not later than 1 August 2008.
Why is this interesting?
- “Countries specifically asked to respond are: India, Vietnam, Benin, Kenya or Tanzania, Malawi or Zambia”
Please note the “or”. As in: “one regional office will do.” Kenya vs Tanzania. Obviously, an opportunity for Kenyan experts.
- You may probably know that I am an admin at the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance (website, whose link i will not repeat because our website is currently being relaunched and still too shabby to be shown around…*cough* *cough*) and we or at least I quite frequently come across ppl who are willing to do something but are lacking the adequate funding and/or don’t know how to apply for funds. Neither do I! However, what I do know is that funds - as limited as they are - will be made available once there are suitable local partners. So, what is actually required (I think!) are much more local networks that will help those funding agencies to approach a local market. And with “funding agencies” I am not only talking about the usual suspects aka dev aid orgs who make a living out of “helping” the poor. Instead, think of businesses from abroad, companies from the US and Europe who would like to invest into an African market and often don’t know whom to approach at first hand. Such a “knowledge centre” for the reproduction and dissemination of knowledge could be a perfect incubator (ok, now that is vc lingua already) for healthy businesses.
- The assignments runs from 2008 till 2010, the end of the ISSUE
programme. The total budget (3 years) for each KEN will be approximately:
Latin America (Costa Rica): 235000 Euro
South East Asia (Vietnam): 170000 Euro
South Asia (India): 145000 Euro
West Africa (Benin): 145000 Euro
East Africa (Kenya or Tanzania): 170000 Euro
Southern Africa (Zambia or Malawi 140000 Euro
Guys, what I am talking about is this upcoming market of sustainable toilet facilities that will rock communities across the globe in future. Just think of the Adopt-A-Light initiative (and what the GoK did to them once they realized there’s money to be made).
“Knowledge Centres” - to me - are local networks that provide much more than just a nice budget for a two years period. Hence this open tender is a first qualification programme to see who will be able to pool other consultants/manufacturers in and who will prepare the market for the future.
In other words: THERE’S MONEY TO BE MADE FROM “WASTE”. Think about it next time you toss out stuff out of your car window or go to toilet.
(disclaimer: “sanitation as a business” is my favourite subject ….pole :-)
AOB: Link of the week - PicLens - an advanced image viewer plugin for FF that will provide you with a “haiiaaaaaa”-effect. Try it!
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18:15
From: You Missed This
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Political events in the recent past and new future may expose the vulnerability of many top shots. Ford-K has just REDISCOVERED itself and promptly ditched PNU following hot in the heels of Narc Kenya and remnants of Kanu. So what will be fate and face of PNU as a party?
Uniting singularly from fear of the opponent is a hollow premise that is not sustainable in the long run. The truth is PNU was and is not a political party in the strict sense of the word. Instead it is a conglomeration (nay patch work) of selfish and scared political entities whose common denominator was fear of the unknown. The chickens are coming home to roost and the typical DECEPTIVE Kenyan brand of politics is eventually crawling out of the word works. Poor Gabriel Kombo! He chairs a party with MPs who consider themselves more valuable than him. Muskari had even to resort to his stock in trade of political black mail, threats and canvassing to get nominated to parliament.
But the real fireworks kick off this weekend in Naivasha when Kibaki succession in disguise takes centre stage at the Narc-K convention. The iron lady is leaving nothing to chance and already has the professor of mathematics boxed into a political corner. But not so fast because you only write off the George at you own peril. Prof Kiarie Kinuthia already has feelers in DP as a fall back position just incase things turn out nasty. The professor of topology can ill afford a rematch reminiscent of the Kasarani drama of the (in) famous KIMYA PROFESA and THERE COMES A TIME……..
Facade of unity
We are already into the season of political positioning and realignment. The casualties will predictably reactivate numerous moribund 100+ parties to sustain the nauseating Kenyan political circus. Forget about the so-called the government of grand coalition which was a detour in the political ego trip. The race has just begun pitting Martha, George and UK. All have their eyes on the ultimate price. The facade of unity and hard ball politics exhibited so far will soon melt into oblivion as each pursues his/her individual trophy.
PNU supporters will soon pay the ultimate price of owning a shell as the elements scatter into the four wings of the world. Well, the truism that the easiest way of uniting people is to create a common enemy (real or perceived) couldn’t have been more apt. The tragedy comes when the elements eventually split away from that enemy in pursuit of individual glory/goals. By then you have got no reason to be together until you start looking at each other by which time you start again looking for another enemy within your ranks. And the circular motion continues.
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13:15
From: Kenya Imagine
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We have been very busy over the last couple of months working on changes on kenya imagine. The new site is now up and ready for you. Apart from regular articles from wananchi like you, there are several new features. These include: - Separate Magazines with great articles written by you: Politics, Economics, Money (personal finance), Technology and Science, Culture, and Society. Please continue submitting articles, and if you haven't already go ahead and do so. We have something for everyone!
- Art Gallery-- We would like to develop this into a fully fledged online art gallery where artists can display their paintings, drawings, etc.
- Patrick Gathara-- in-house cartoonist.
- Kwangu-- this is your space to network and create relationships with other kI users.
- Personal Blogs/Diaries that are not edited. Create your own! The best blog will be featured everyday on the homepage increasing your readership.
- Groups-These will be created by you, and you can join any existing ones that you please. A group can be private or public.
- Traveler-- a diary with reviews on places in Kenya and around the world.
- Classifieds: This section will also be user-generated. Are you offering services? Know of a job opening? Register with us and share the information with our readers.
- What we are reading: This is our del.icio.us page . username: Mkenya, password: Cynthia1984
- Papers and Documents: You can upload resumes, long papers and pdfs here to share with others
Once again, thanks to everyone for visiting us-- for articles, and comments. Karibu. Please drop me a line if you have any questions. nekessa@kenyaimagine.com Nekessa for kenyaImagine
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10:46
From: Words Much Like Poetry
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at highest hilltop, i pause world-worn bones
and gaze below at the indigent state
where, in beggarly raiment, i reside.
a sullying fate, this circumstance of impoverishment,
from which there seems no evasion,
and insipid tales of the daily warfare of tenement life,
soar about me in stentorian dimensions—
no quiet remonstraters, these querulous folk,
no soft sighers here.
i would shield my ears, if i could,
cup my hands, in reverent imitation
of the seakeeper shell,
and listen, instead, to the whirl of my own blood ocean,
think on, rather, of the worth long declined me,
feel, preferably, as i once did when humility was not staple
and the banquet i feasted on
was the honor of my rightful gains.
form breaks and my knees land jarringly
upon the gradually changeable earth,
i make no sound, though my eyes are now fountains
and cascade salt ridden jets
upon the well travelled curvature below.
no, i dare not waste breath
to make testimonials of my baleful happenings,
the grandiose fledged circles above,
and in this, the last act of the tragedy titled,
the silent adversity,
i finally speak.
"phoenix of renewal, smite me now with your flames!
bathe clean this defective manifestation,
broken of a more knowledgeable mold,
turn me into ash, then dust,
then call forth the four winds
to scatter me across the heavens
whereupon vindication might find me
and cast me yet again."
and the phoenix does so.
i awake in a new land,
not the indigent state with its lack of prosperity,
but a sprawling land
filled to the brim with fat years constructed of palmy days
filled with towering windfalls
and bounteous returns.
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10:35
From: Black Looks
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Kenya: Citizen Media in a time of crisis
(tags: kenya citizen media elections web2.0 blogging)
History Matters
Promoting citizenship and democracy in South Africa
(tags: blogging citizenship democracy southafrica)
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-06-24", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/links_for_2008-06-24.html" });
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9:08
From: bankelele
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 Barcamp was held on Saturday at the Jacaranda Hotel: Hash has a list of links to various re-caps from other bloggers. Here's mine from the ½ day there ISP's: Riyaz (of Wananchi) gave a talk on the coming changes in the ISP sector, as he talked about the various offering in the market now; - Safariom Michael Joseph is Mr. Kenya with 10 million ‘voters’ behind him has 700MB that costs 2,000 shillings ($31.25) (Not enough), and other bundles - Celtel has EDGE for 3,000 not well marketed. Not as good not that it has many more users - Access Kenya Access at Home has two rates one for day (high traffic costs more) and another for night (much fewer people online, cheaper) Wananchi offers 512K at 3,000 shared (Not dedicated which costs about 100,000 shillings – and said any ISP who promises you dedicated service at a sub-par costs is lying to consumers). They have Wimax for offices cost about 15,000, are going into cable TV (100+ channels) and will roll out to houses via cable which has higher capacity (separately they got overseas funding for their expansion so no need for a local IPO now ) - KDN have laid out more more fibre than anyone in Kenya, serve a few hotspots but the butterfly does not fly - Orange/Telkom Kenya. They pay very good salaries to engineers and other members and will roll out data service in a big way soon. They are on CDMA which means that they require fewer base stations (50 in Nairobi to 300 for Celtel and 400 for Safaricom, and will distribute the much awaited I-phone in Kenya and the region Riyaz mentioned the need for Africa to not miss out on the ongoing technological revolution. He said companies like KDN and Wananchi have free hosting and are ready to partner with developers – he mentioned platforms like Jahazi (a hybrid application accessible from any computer – with chat, news reader and browser) and Zunguka – and challenged Kenyans to be ready to develop application and systems to take advantage of the expected submarine cable (TEAMS) once it lands. Other platforms/applications I learnt about include Helule, Peupe (from multiplechoices), Campus Vybe, Stockskenya, and Haiya- Hash gave a session on blogger tips that was very engaging - Interesting talks were given on the Kenya Internet Exchange Point which exchanges net traffic between local ISP’s (and which can be up to 90% or 50 MEGS? in peak time), the Kipsigis Heritage Foundation, Computers for Schools Kenya and Kenyan Poet talked about a local book sale company that accepted M-Pesa payments and had free delivery of books in Nairobi - Paul Kukubo of the Kenya ICT Board talked about the Kenya Transparency Communication Infrastructure Project (KTCIP?), a partnership with the World Bank that had a grant of $1.5 million to go toward creators of local portals, content and applications (such as commodity exchanges for agriculture). Awards will be in the range of $10,000 to $20,000 each and a formal announcement wile be made later Safariom day 12 Deals 5,091 Turnover 438,560,608 ($6.85 million) Closing 7.70 High 7.80 Low 7.55 Last 7.70 Volume 56.9 million shares. Weaker tone. Buyers pulled back and Sellers chased down. 7.35/7.50 is support. We came down on much lower volume. Data and commentary from Rich.co.ke [Free real time prices] - authorized NSE data vendor.
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8:22
From: Black Looks
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In an outrageous statement against LGBTs and asylum seekers, UK’s Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith claims gay and lesbian asylum seekers can be deported to Iran (and other countries such as Nigeria, Uganda and Cameroon) safely as long as they are “discreet”.
In a letter to a Liberal Democrat peer, seen by The Independent, Ms Smith [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Forget about being executed just be descreet!", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/forget_about_being_executed_just_be_descreet.html" });
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8:18
From: Kenyan Pundit
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Independent Electoral Review Commission(IREC) shall be holding its sittings in Nairobi from June 25 - 27, 2008 at the KICC from 9.00 a.m. to 3.00 p.m. Any bloggers who are free at the time…would be great if you could cover it.
SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Electoral Review Commission hearings", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2008/06/24/electoral-review-commission-hearings/" });
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6:56
From: You Missed This
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The very latest shocking information about the investigations of slain Reuters journalist Trent Keegan is that police have confirmed that Mr Keegan decided to walk to the city centre from Capital Centre on Mombasa Road. He decided to walk after he complained that taxis were charging him too much. Interestingly it is said that the police got that information from a woman whom Mr Keegan had an intimate relationship with. Investigators now suspect that Mr Keegan was ambushed near Railways, and hit with a blunt object on the head. He slumped to the ground and hit his forehead on the pavement. The attackers are believed to have taken Mr Keegan’s mobile telephone and a laptop. But it is still a deep mystery why they never ransacked his pockets because his wallet, passport, credit card, cash driving license and shoes were all found intact, something very unusual in a mugging. Apparently the police also believe that Mr Keegan re-gained consciousness and limped and staggered to the spot where his body was found. The head injuries had taken a heavy toll on him and he dropped dead, police now believe. A watchman and a taxi driver are being held at the Central Police station in connection with the murder. Interestingly the police tracked them down through Mr Keegan’s stolen mobile phone. Many Kenyans still do not know that the police use mobile telephony technology to track down suspects. Police arrested the watchman first because he was the first to use the stolen phone. He was of course using a different SIM card, an indication that the attackers had discarded Mr Keegan’s SIM card in the false belief they were safe. The watchman told detectives from Central police division, who are investigating the murder, that he had found the phone to be too expensive and he had re-sold it to a taxi driver. The watchman claimed the phone was sold to him by a stranger. The taxi driver was also arrested and he in turn told the detectives that he had sold the phone to another person. Police established from Safaricom that the phone was still in use. However, it seems the third buyer got wind that police were looking and he has since gone underground. Police are yet to unmask who attacked Mr Keegan and for what motive. Meanwhile Mr Keegan’s family is seriously considering launching their own investigations into his mysterious death. The family has refused to accept the mugging theory. The slain journalists’ sister Nikki told a newspaper in New Zealand over the weekend that there was no reason for the body to be where it was found because it was nowhere near the flat where he stayed and was in fact out of the way. He also still had his wallet, passport, credit cards, cash, driving license and shoes, which is very unusual for somebody who has been mugged. She also revealed that Trent Keegan had been seen by a friend in a bar at about 9:30pm on the night he disappeared. He also phoned his girlfriend 10 minutes later. The International Committee to Protect Journalists is now investigating the case. How much money are you losing daily because you cannot be found on Google by people eager to give you money? Find out, you'll be shocked!
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5:20
From: Mentalacrobatics
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The Kenyan government, like most governments around the world, is well versed in the art of deploying and utilising smokescreens. As the name implies the purpose of the smokescreen is to hide something from view or atleast divert attention away from an issue or subject that the government would rather was not noticed, leave alone discussed or debated at all. These smokescreens come in various forms but they all share some of the same characteristics.
For example the smokescreens usually contain something completely ridiculous which leads us to wonder what planet members of our government come from. This was the favoured tactic of the Moi regime. Here is an example. Did you notice how when there was a negative and potential very damaging story about the government dominating the news agenda one of Moi’s ministers would stand up and give a speech in which he would make some ridiculous claim? My favourite one was that Kenya was about to bid to host the Olympics. Predictably we would all get outraged and froth at the mouth and spend the next month partaking in debates with our friends and colleagues, remarking to each other that there are other priorities for the government to focus on, we would chuckle at the idea of the creaking Kenyan infrastructure being asked to host such a large event, and we would write articles to display our intellectual fortitude informing the minister that Olympics are hosted by CITIES not COUNTRIES so Kenya could not bid for the Olympics but Nairobi could. Of course by the time we had exhausted all this energy we would have forgotten what issue we were discussing before the minister made his ridiculous statement. And as we laughed all the way to our bars and coffee shops content that we were smarter than our ministers, our self proclaimed Professor of Politics was laughing at our constant ability to be played.
More recently we have seen another smokescreen deployed occasionally. When difficult questions started surfacing about what we now call “Anglo-Leasing type contracts” the First Lady would go out and do something totally ridiculous, such as raid a private party at the World Bank country director’s house in her pyjamas. When the questions about corruption would not stop the First Lady would either storm a police station and demand the cops arrest somebody or storm a media house by herself in the dead of the night and proceed to slap reporters – an act that is 110% guaranteed to dominate the media’s new agenda. Where was Kibaki, we would ask, why didn’t State House intervene when the First Lady’s security detail first reported her irrational and illegal actions?
Well maybe State House did not intervene because they had just deployed their smokescreen. And soon afterwards whispers about medication being deliberately withheld from the First Lady to ensure her irrational behaviour continues started to surface. These days whenever the First Lady does something outrageous I check the newspapers from the previous week to try and figure out what they are trying to hide.
In June 2008 we have been thrown yet another smokescreen, this time by the Minister of Finance, Amos Kimunya. This smokescreen, brilliant deployed it must be said, centres around Budget and the issue of whether Members’ of Parliament should pay tax on their salaries and allowances. Of course they should. That is obvious and indeed it is ridiculous that in 2008 we can still debate this. Of course Members’ of Parliament should pay tax on their salaries and allowances. Predictably many MPs are resisting all attempts to pay tax and that is the debate that has dominated the Kenyan news agenda in the past couple of weeks.
This debate about MPs and taxation is a smokescreen which Mwalimu Mati the CEO of MARS Group Kenya has exposed with his usually thoroughness. If MPs paid tax the Treasury would save between Ksh. 600 million and Ksh. 700 million. That is good money. However, Kimunya’s latest budget is full of waste, which runs into the HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of shillings. And that is even better money. And all this is probably going to pass unscrutinzed by a parliament full of MPS whose only point of concern in this Budget is whether or not they are to be taxed.
Please download [pdf 48 kb] , read, blog and circulate widely Mati’s article. You can download [pdf 48kb] it here.
Some shocking statistcs:
- Last year the Government of Kenya budget for entertainment of its guests amounted to Ksh 5.7 million per day for EVERY day of the year.
- The Governemnet of Kenya spends Ksh 3.995 billion on rents per annum and only receives Ksh 239.368 million per year from property income and rent.
- Last year, the Government of Kenya spent over Ksh 6.7 million per day every day of the year on foreign travel. This is set to increase in this budget.
- Did you know that State House Nairobi has 149 cars? Did you know that this year Minister of Finance wants to buy Ksh 73 million more worth of cars for State House? Did you know that last year a similar amount of money was spent on cars at State House? Did you know that the Government budget for cars for 2008 has gone up by 1 billion shillings, even as public attention is consumed by the debate on MP’s allowances?
And the best one
- Every year the Minister of Finance presents lump sum budgets for the National Security Intelligence Services, the Armed Forces and the Kenya Anti Corruption Commission. This year their collective budgets will pass the Ksh 47 billion mark – and yet they will be no debate on the budget items in them because the Minister of Finance has helpfully provided none.
Ksh. 47 BILLION!
Kenyans let us demand that our MPs accept that they have a duty to pay taxes but let us not allow this debate on MPs allowances to distract us from the bigger picture. Do not be fooled by the smokescreen! Demand equally that your MP take his or her constitutional responsibility seriously and scrutinise Amos Kimunya’s ridiculous Budget.
Please download [pdf 48 kbs], read, blog, and circulate widely Mati’s article. You can download it here [pdf 48kb].
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4:13
From: Kenyanpoet
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On Saturday I attended the much anticipated BarCamp. For me(and maybe also for many who came) it was a chance to not only horn my skills in blogging but also meet the faces behind the great blogs, local applications and cool tools and My! they were in plenty.  I together with my fellow Sports buff, & blogger, sportskenya arrived at the event at 10.00am and already the event was packed with various guys signing up, others helping themselves to the lots of hot drinks and snacks that had been laid out. At first I couldn't see any familiar faces but as I filling in the 'manual' roll call MentalAcrobatics appeared heavily armed with a huge Camera whose photos I still haven't seen yet. He was my ticket to 'uncovering bloggers'. Many thanks to Gichingiri Kuria for the ubercool poster! He(Mentalacro) introduced me to Bankelele (whom I highly respect as a serious dependable figure in giving information on the stock market and finance sector), Hash of WhiteAfrican and the skunkworks team. Ugo of Nariobinow had been waiting to meet the KenyanPoet(who was clearly marked with a labeled tag) and we exchanged quite a number of ideas on growth as our blogs target the same readers. Watch this space for big tings. There was an intro by Hash and a brief on which sessions were on and in which rooms. There were three rooms, each sponsored by the 3 main sponsors namely, Google.ke, ICTBoard and Ushahidi. Some of the sessions I managed to go for were:- There was also the lightening session in which I also gave my 2cents worth in challenging coders and designers to come up with our own online communities for book lovers like Shelfari and other goodies to the book lovers(talk of being selfish....lol) Some of the other bloggers & coders I met were:- Sikumoja(A Nairobian's Perspective), Girl in the Meadow, MotoBaridi(catchy eh!), Mashinc and Alkags. (pls holla if I forgot you) Images of this event can be found here, here and some videos here. Enjoy I sure hope we'll have other such forums to learn, exchange ideas and encourage each other that we are not just idle youths with free internet(as Kenyan local media so describes us). I understand only one media house was there and their story was actually not about BarCamp but about Google, their office, work and dress ethic and how they organized this huge convention for geeks(hehehhe, ok, that last part was mine) CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO, Nation Media Group’s managing editor for convergence and new products. wrote in the The East African Newspaper, "Put not your faith in graduates, Africa’s future lies in the blogs".
I especially loved this part "All sorts of ordinary folk — secretaries, housewives, drug-crazed youths, and so on — are now “citizen journalists,” contributing popular stories and pictures that are attracting millions of readers. In this situation, it’s making less and less sense to hire a journalist because he has a degree, if he’s a wooden fellow who can’t write a blog to rival the housewife’s."
I say Amen to that & Blog On Bloggers!
  
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4:07
From: Memories, Sentiments, Rants and Raves
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Modo tagged me and i got this off Queen. I broke the rules and did it twice.I wont tag but feel free to do your thing. MEME Rules: 1. Put Your iTunes/ music player on Shuffle 2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer. 3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER WHAT!!! After you’ve answered all of the questions, tag 5 other people and then let them know they’ve been tagged to do the meme themselves! IF SOMEONE SAYS “IS THIS OKAY” YOU SAY? 1721-Bach/Minuet and Badinerie(from Ochestral suite no.2 in B minor) Love is on our side again -Julio Iglesias WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY? As time goes by -Julio Iglesias(Casablanca Soundtrack). I will always love you-Dolly Parton WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL? Dont fall in love with a dreamer- Kenny Rogers Losambo-Extra Musica HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY? S.O.S-Eddie Levert Sr & Gerald Levert (its cold, for real) Twisted-Keith Sweat WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE? Emergency- The whispers Never too much-Luther Vandross WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO? 1796 Beethoven: minuet in G Brisa-Poncho Sanchez WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU? Red Light spells danger- Billy Ocean Doo bee Doo-Freshly Ground WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS? Beat of my heart-Jake Shimabukuro Hey now- Carl Thomas WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN? A situation-Eddie Levert Sr & Gerald Levert obsession- Tito Puente WHAT IS 2+2? Careless Love- Bessie Smith I fix my eyes on you-Tommy Walker WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND? Baby making hips- Fantasia How come how long- Babyface WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE? Beautiful- Meshell Ndegeocello In the rain-Xcape WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY? Soy Un truhan Soy un Senor- Julio Iglesias Nathalie-Julio Iglesias WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP? Black and Proud- James Brown Forse la soglia antisse-Luciano Pavarotti WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE? Tell me something good-Chaka Khan & Rufus Twist and Shout-Chaka Demus & Pliers WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU? Love is on the way- Dave Koz Lush Life-John Coltrane WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING? M appari- Luciano Pavarotti I am Qualified to Satisfy you-Barry White WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL? Ndichu-Kamaru My way- Elvis Presley WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST? When i said i do- Kenny Latimore Reason for breathing- Babyface WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET? Don't know why- Kenny G Body Talk-Lemar WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS? Demu Wangu- Mangweair Practice what you preach-Carlos Santana WHAT SHOULD YOU POST THIS AS? Temptation-P square Good Enough-Bobby Brown
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1:45
From: You Missed This
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Guest post by Sam Okello
This past week has been like no other in the recent past. For the first time since the wave of nationalism that swept African leaders to power across the continent, the world witnessed the emergence of a new, super intelligent, deeply pragmatic and sincerely hopeful leadership in Africa. By visiting Washington D.C. and displaying the best of African pride and wisdom, Prime Minister Raila Odinga told the global community that the continent was turning a page. Africa is moving forward with dignity and hope. The era of begging for handouts is over. The era of hard work, partnerships and reciprocal trade agreements is in.
Those of us who support Prime Minister Raila Odinga have been accused of doing so blindly. Worse still, we've been labeled tribalists who seek to see a Luo presidency in our lifetime in Kenya. Bull. It's easy for those who are loath to the visionary leadership of the Prime Minister to twist what we say and spin it into something more parochial and foolish. But how do such people argue with the charisma of a man who came to Washington and declared that what we need today is not give-outs, but investment? How do they argue with the diplomacy of a man who respected President Kibaki even as he reminded the world that the truly elected President of Kenya had not yet been inaugurated? And how do they argue with the sense he left in official Washington...that the new African leader was emerging?
But while the Hon Odinga was projecting the new face of Africa to the world, in Zimbabwe we were witnessing the brutality of discredited and myopic leadership. Robert Mugabe was going around the nation unleashing terror on his own people, maiming women and children, killing fathers and brothers, literally raping the economy. Isn't there just one bullet someone can lock in his head to end this misery for our people in Zim? How long will his madness be allowed to go on? And then there is Thabo Mbeki. The man has gone from a respected world leader to an idiot. Remember his position on AIDS? And did you know that he is the reason Mugabe feels he can get away with impunity? Is it any wonder the South Africans went with Jacob Zuma as his replacement? Hhmm!
While all that was going on, Kalonzo Musyoka was back in Ukambani asking Kenyans to stop debating amnesty. You see, to people like Kalonzo, this is a debate. To him this is a matter of who wins an argument. What this traitor needs to be told is that we are not debating. We are calling on the government to release the freedom fighters locked up in our jailhouses. The boys who fought the police and Kibaki's thuggish forces fought for the nation. They are not criminals. They are freedom fighters. It's because of them that we have a government of national unity. To continually keep them in jail is unethical. So, once again, for the sake of putting the final block on the reconciliation house we've been building, let the boys go. Let the sons and daughters of Nyanza, the Rift Valley, Western, Central, Coast, Eastern, Nairobi and the NEP go. Let our people go. The alternative, as you'll soon find out, will be a deal-breaker.
Be reminded, once again, that the chief culprits in the election debacle are: Mwai Kibaki, Samuel Kivuitu, John Michuki, Gen Ali and others. Their crimes are listed in my earlier posts.
That said, let's thank God that Kenya is blessed to have one of the new breed of African leaders in our own country. With leaders like William Ruto, Musalia Mudavadi, Najib Balala, Joe Nyagah and the indomitable Madam Charity Ngilu, Kenya is marching to a better place.
The golden age in Kenya is at hand!
For Love of Country,
Sam O. Okello
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