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Times have changed but not our politicians. Kibaki is finding it hard mould PNU into an outfit for his political schemes. Beholden to his club of moneyed and greying buddies it is payback time and he has to deliver before he quits State House. With Jomo Jr. salivating in the wings for coronation, Iron Lady and Prof Kiarie cannot sit down and watch.
With economic deals on Kenya at high stakes Kibaki cannot afford the luxury of experimenting with less endowed chaps around him. But true to character he is trying to keep all relevant lest they leave the king exposed for what he is – SPINELESS MARIONETTE. It appears the next four years are very short to accomplish the national looting and auction hence the early political positioning of pretenders to the throne. While the bank behind Kibaki’s politics and presidency are demanding quick results, the route is proving unpredictably bumpy.
The new wineskins have vehemently rejected the old wine. We are in new age and Kibaki’s time tested fraudulent tricks are being overtly and covertly resisted by people who would otherwise be playing ball. Ford-K and Narc-K have proved good and fast students of history and have vowed never to provide their backs for a piggy political ride for the heir apparent.
Curse of last term
Outright dissent is a known byword for last term presidents and Kibaki is no exception. His authority and spinelessness will be tested to the core and the dissenters are determined to go all the way. Already Karua and her gang have scored a significant victory in having the proposal to dissolve affiliate parties and merge them into one shelved. Forming a committee to study such a viability is just diplospeak to but time in the face of a determined opposition.
DECEPTION and FRAUD are very costly vices. Kibaki is finally paying the ultimate price of cheating his way into his second term. The truth be told, PNU was a gimmick for a party formed under the wrong premise and with the wrong purpose. Passengers boarded the vehicle for selfish reasons as evident in the present rudderlessness.
That the more things change the more they remain the same has never been an apt phrase as applied to Kenyan politics. Now the Wekesa-led PNU committee are back to the trouble laced twin proposal of individual and corporate membership. Boy, don’t we love repeating the same mistakes that previously refused to work. So Kibaki has finally discovered in his sunset political life that he needs to be the chairman of a party called PNU and for good measure have a trusted lieutenant as a deputy. Whether that will work is anybody’s guess. But the scheming betrays IMPUNITY as a defining label for the players. In their minds damn the consequences and what Kenyans think provided their wicked plans are laid no matter the human price.
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17:01 Pursue your Passion: Mwangi Interviews Kirk Nugent (Part 1)
» The Displaced African 
Technical Difficulties
For some unforeseen reason, I am unable to put this out as a podcast for the time being, however the audio file works just fine. It’s an absolutely wonderful interview, enjoy.
The Podcast
[See post to listen to audio]
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Things Covered
1) Brief introduction: Just who is Kirk Nugent?
2) His life story beginning in Kingston and how he arrived in the States.
3) Comparisons between education levels in White schools and Black schools in the States
4) How he ended up dropping out of University
5) Interesting story of how he got his first job in sales while his friend ended up on America’s Most Wanted
6) His super difficult transition from a successful job in sales sales to a spoken word poet and speaker via a long period of destitution.
Much much more
Websites Mentioned
1) Kirk Nugent’s website: [www.kirknugent.com]
2) Kirk Nugent’s Myspace page: [profile.myspace.com]
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12:43
Testing the new WordPress iPhone App
» White African So, I’ve been eagerly awaiting the new iPhone WordPress app [iTunes link]. Not because I forsee creating a lot of new content with my thumbs, but because it’ll make it easier to add images straight from my phone and easier to edit old posts. Lastly, the team behind WordPress tends to put out good stuff, so I want to see what it’s like.
Setup is simple and intuitive, just enter domain, username and password. Choose how many old posts to archive on the phone, and then get writing.
Now, I’m going to try to add pictures from my phone. Hmmm, not possible to just add an image inline, seems I can only create a gallery. I’d like some way to add individual images easily. I wonder if they could do this by allowing you to hide the keyboard?
I like how the screen automatically scrolls to the bottom when you revisit a draft.
Overall, this is going to be a useful app and will stay in an honored position of page 1 on my iPhone.
UPDATE: looks like the photos were not added correctly as a gallery, but inline. Not good. Let’s see if manually adding the gallery tag will fix it.
Update 2: that fixed it. Now to delete all the code injected. The last 2 images show the frontside and editor-side of this mess.
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12:13
Remember Olive Morris? - History of Black Britain
» Black Looks I was not here in the 70s so no, I don’t remember Olive Morris but do remember the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) in the early 80s which she was a founder member. Morris was part of the Brixton Black Panther Party and early post -WWII Black struggle in Britain. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Remember Olive Morris? - History of Black Britain", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/07/remember_olive_morris_-_history_of_black_britain.html" });
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10:53
Women Behaving Badly
» Kenyanpoet I am your typical girl from the Slopes
Who was taught that trousers are for men
Shorts for boys
And well
Dresses and skirts are for women and girls.
My grand mother always insisted
Red ink appeared on the lips of those who drank blood
Paint on nails was as rare to see as the occasional chapattis made over the festive season
I am your typical woman from the village
I wake up when the sun is still hiding far in the horizon.
Walk hours on end to the river to put water in the 2 mitungis
5 times I go back and forth,
The cows need to drink, Chicken, pigs, goats
Clothes washed,
The utensils from last night washed
Njeri & Kamau will bathe tomorrow
My husband
Snoring like a pig
Wakes up and shouts
Wanjiru Winaku ?
Wewe ni mwanamke ama mfano!
“ I am going to Nairofi to rook for a real woman”
A woman who is learned
A woman with kirathi
Not rike you
Everytime I want
Always compraining
Head, back, feet, stomach, teeth, hair, ah!
I want a Nairofi woman
I hate Nairofi women, those whish my husband wants
Yet he can’t have for more than a night
These women, is rike their eyes have been ricked by wild cats
They oroways want things
I want pizza (what in God’s name is that?),
I want a ndesigner handbag,
I want clothes,
I want money,
They only return his smiles when they can smell money on him
Like dogs on heat they follow him everywhere
Kwamaiko bar, sirikiso, they even have no shame
Coming into the compound asking for Mike!
Ati -Mathe ako wapi Mike?
Is micheal your mother
Micheal ni nyukwa!
Look at them, these women,
They behave so badly like its going out of style
Like the solea I still apply to my face
Like the hotcomb I still use to fry my hair
These women behave like wild cats
With painted faces, like Wangu the witch
Torn clothes like a cow was eating them
With tight trousers I wonder if they were poured into them
And panties peeping out of their behinds like they want to come out and be worn on top
But they say, I am not a well behaved woman,
That I am a shame to real women
They say, my covered hair in mother’s union headscarf,
Long dress, cracked feet and plain face
Should be cultural artifacts in the National museum
I say
They can go jump in a river
They are the real W.B.B (Women Behaving Badly)
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Foreign Correspondent's Literary Image of Africa - From Stanley To Kapuscinski
» Kenyanpoet FROM STANLEY TO KAPUSCINSKI - How foreign correspondents have formed the literary image of Africa.
A panel discussion featuring
Binyavanga Wainaina, Jonathan Ledgard, Maryanne Fitzgerald
Moderated by Steve Bloomfield
23rd July 7 pm, start at Alfajiri, Maalim Juma Road, opposite Royal Media
"We went into the heart of Africa self-invited — therein lies our
fault." (Henry Morton Stanley)
Since Stanley became the first man to cross Africa and write about it
for the New York Herald, the literary image of Africa has been inked
by foreign correspondents turned writers - Mark Twain, Ernest
Hemingway, Graham Greene, and Evelyn Waugh among them.
Can the continent ever escape the dark romantics?
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Rwanda Special;July 22nd, 24th & 29th @ Goethe-Institut
» Kenyanpoet Screenings of movies from Rwanda eg. 100 days will take place at the at Goethe-Institut, Nairobi Library Lounge, July 22nd, 24th and 29th, from 6pm, free entrance. More from NairobiNow
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Kwani? Special at Kenya National Library,Nairobi
» Kenyanpoet 
Kwani? will host an interactive session featuring poetry performances, prose readings and story telling this Thursday at the Kenya National Library in Upper Hill Nairobi from 2 - 4pm.
The event will feature Binyavanga Wainaina, Cindy Ogana, Njeri Wangari and Samuel Munene(whose work 'Obama My Uncle has been featured on this blog).
This is a great opportunity to get information on how to participate in the Kwani Literary Festival and register for the writers' workshops.
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7:48
Presidency For Dummies (African Edition) - Elections
» tHiNkEr'S rOoM Chapter 9: Incumbency: Your Best Friend
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7:24
AfriGadget Videos now on Zoopy!
» AfriGadget Joining the AfriGadget community with Zoopy’s video community
Over the past two years AfriGadget videos have been hosted haphazardly by our team on YouTube and Brightcove. We’re very happy to announce that we’re partnering with one of Africa’s premier video and image hosting sites, Zoopy, for all of our videos from now on. We’re all about promoting African entrepreneurs, and this is no exception.
Jason, and the team at Zoopy, has created a customized channel for us, that can be found at Zoopy.com/AfriGadget. They’ve been brilliant, responsive and patient all through the setup process.
AfriGadget videos can now be found on Zoopy.com
Look for a few more videos going up on Zoopy than we used to put up elsewhere, some of them the outtakes that are just sitting in the archive. We’re not video pros, as most of you know by now, but it sure is great to hear these innovators tell their own story in their own words.
Here’s an example from a story on a lady and her daughter who make custom fishing flies:
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5:38
Update
» stranded in me As I wait for big brother I wonder what measures have been put in place to ensure that no one is finger raped?
A few things have happened since the last time I was here, I have created a second tv series and in the process of figuring out how to market it. Loan sharks are invited to send suggestions coz i'm seriously considering taking a loan. Maybe equity will give me money? The worst that could happen is for the show to flop and considering the subject matter that's not likely, they can lend me the money make it back and hopefully i get some change.. good idea huh?
Still on creating, I think I have a show that will make apprentice look like child's play and I mean the trump experience coz I want to put a group like no other and give them a challenge, my challenge again is marketing maybe i should enroll in a class!! Ama look for Mark Burnett and pitch it to him..(from my keyboard to God's ears). The creation is coming really well I have like many ideas in paper need to get them on screen chap chap! I should become an arsonist for hire i'm sure after all the schools getting burnt kids can't purchase fuel!
I've been happy in love. Happy. The weight gain I can't explain maybe chips and the cold as a reason for not working out is tedious but for real I haven't discovered a route in the new neighborhood I like(more excuses huh!)
Had auditions this weekend for my mnet series still don't have cast! The 'wow' factor was lacking in people, it got me thinking since most of the performing artists can't live off acting alone then things like working out daily for hours to get six packs is out of the question, question is six pack=beautiful body is that a western concept of beauty straight out of fhm or is it now ours? I appreciate a six pack coz I know just how much work goes into developing and of course it looks good!
I have met some amazing people and been disappointed by others I looked up to, any regrets? Just one but it can't be changed so I have decided to move on and learn from the mistake. All in all its been more of good than bad..
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3:30
What Ghana's crooks learnt from Kenya...
» Rants, Raves & Reviews Kenya is Africa's teacher in the dark arts...
mugabe the neanderthal stole the election after seeing the success that kibz had in Kenya... and mbeki the appeaser has convinced MDC to 'marry' ZANU to form a "Grand Coalition'. Hmmm... sounds just like Kenya!
Now Ghana's crooked elite are planning a mobitelea on Ghana Telecom similar to Kenya's Safaricom... yes, Kenya has a lot to teach... pity it is all in the realm of the crooked ways!
So... as I posed in my earlier blog post... if Africans lined up all the corrupt politicians and drove a stake through their hearts, after shooting them - twice, just in case - through their noggins... would this be considered an act of kindness or genocide?
(Genocide... I ask? Well, it would eliminate an entire group... not bound by ethnicity but by lack of ethics)
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