Published hereis a progress report on the process: the interviews of the finalists, and what next.
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A Report on NextLevel: Interviews
» Kenya Imagine Several weeks ago we launched Next Level, a mentorship program for the arts. We were overwhelmed and excited by the number of applicants.. and the range in talent.
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Kenya Should Invest in Sports
» Kenya Imagine In his inaugural article for Kenya Imagine Nicholas Oyoo Ochieng makes a case for Kenyan sportsmen and women. Sports, he argues, is a very lucrative business, and Kenya should harness the opportunity since we have some of the world's best athletes.
More.
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16:29 Malawi’s food revolution.
» johnkaranja.com 
Corn Revolution
Malawi under the Presidency of Bingu Wa Mutharika has been able to transform itself from a country in dire need of food aid in 2003 to a country that is now feeding its neighbours Zimbabwe and Mozambique. It also gives food donations to the World Food Program which sends food aid to countries like Kenya.
This was possible because the President took full control of the Ministry of Agriculture as was therefore able to supervise and coordinate the food security program. They also got rid of corruption through getting rid of the hawkish middlemen and provided agricultural subsidies to the farmers at the local level. Drip irrigation was used to supplement rainfall.
Watch an interview with President Bingu Wa Mutharika
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I was rifling...
» Mo-Mo Baggins I was rifling...
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Up Close with Kirk Franklin
» All about Africa and specifically Kenya Kirk Franklin, an award winning and multi-talented gospel musician was in Kenya for the Spread the Love Festival, and Kachwanya.com writer Oduor Jagero chatted him before the concert. Jagero: How are you? Kirk: I am fine; I need to sleep before I step up on stage. I thank God for our journey from Kampala, and the fact [...]
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Never Good Enough: Speed (pt 1/3)
» White African We’re never good enough when it comes to speed, stability or simplicity of our mobile and web applications. This is a three-part series where I unpack my experience building apps on each of these subjects. It’s not just for those of us working on Ushahidi, these are the three most crucial abilities of any web or mobile application.
Let me tell you a personal story:
Libera, March 2009I’m sitting, sweating in the sweltering heat of a Monrovia cyber cafe, I have my notebook out and my am watching the clock. My goal is to see how fast I can load up the Ushahidi home page for the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it has a map, timeline and list of recent events tracking the current level of unrest in the country.
It’s not looking good. As I look around, waiting for the page to load, I count 8 others in the room – 6 of which have fired up stuttering and unusable Yahoo and Skype video chat windows. Why this is the channel and usage of choice, when it so obviously doesn’t work, I cannot answer. But this is reality, and if we expect ordinary Africans to use our application, we had better make sure that it loads up relatively fast on the low-bandwidth, shared internet connections that proliferate across the continent.
Utter failure. After 20 minutes painfully watching the page load byte by byte, I give up. I quickly type out a message to our team, imploring everyone to streamline this “fat, squeeling pig of a page”. Peppering them with questions… Can I buy some caching please? What can we do with this map to make it not kill the load? Can we get rid of 75% of the images on the page? Do we need to redesign this from the ground up? Granted, Liberia’s internet situation is worse than almost any other on the continent. Especially when it comes to the grinding halt you see in the cyber cafes during the daylight hours as the local population piles on at the same time, completely overwhelming the limited satellite connection. That’s no excuse though. Ushahidi is built on the idea that the lowest common denominator, whether it’s PC or mobile-phone based access, will work. The PC-side is clearly failing.
Worst of all, my patience is short, Liberia is pissing me off with the heat, humidity, lack of bandwidth and no electricity grid. Objectively, this is the perfect state to be in, I am now able to come up with a solution for normal users in Africa.
What other’s knowSpeed… if there’s only one thing that you do with your application, make it faster. No, it’s not fast enough.
This isn’t news to anyone, or it shouldn’t be. For years the major web sites around the world have known this and have been building for it. Mozilla, Amazon, Google and Facebook are all aware of just how critical speed is to their success. It boils down to attention threshold and what we, as users ourselves, are willing to put up with.
There is no area in which our team has felt more pain than in trying to speed up the page loads of our apps. Maps tend to be page killers by themselves. Once we add multiple calls to the database we start to get some truly agonizing speeds. It’s a constant pressure that sits on every one of our development cycles, and for which we dedicate a great deal of energy.
User experience research needed in AfricaOne area that hasn’t seen enough true user experience testing is Africa. We know that internet speeds are slower, sometimes by orders of magnitude. I’ve got a lot of questions, more than answers at this point. Should we cut out the maps and all images? What’s the true cost of a page load +/- 7 seconds? What is the real value of maps in Africa compared to the West – do they matter?
Jessica Colaco is a top-notch programmer who has shifted to doing research in Kenya. I hope that she, and others like Eric Osiakwan and his team from Internet Research in Ghana, will help us dig out these answers. More than that, I hope they will help us ask the right questions.
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11:41
Scammers targeting gay men in Ghana & Kenya
» Black Looks Emerging gay chat sites in Ghana are being used to trap MSM by luring them into isolated spaces with promises of sex. The men are then either blackmailed or assaulted by the “fake gays”. This always starts with visits to the internet in search of love on dating websites, without suspecting that the alluring profiles [...]
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Kengen & other Nairobi Bonds
» bankelele Kengen & other Nairobi Bonds
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NPCA Results 2nd Round Wk 1
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Become a fan of Kenya Cricket.com on facebook: [www.facebook.com]NPCA LEAGUE SUMMARISED RESULTS - 50 OVERS - 2nd.Round
13th.September 2009
Super
Telca
Kanbis 'A'
Ngara
Telca Won by 14
117 All Out
103 All Out
Runs
Nelson Odhiambo - 35*
Arvind Halai - 25
Alex Obanda - 31
Thomas Odoyo - 3/18
Rohit V - 4/18
Maurice Odumbe - 3/19
Dhirendra V -2/15
Super
Kanbis 'B'
Swamibapa 'A'
Eastleigh
Swamibapa 'A'
223 / 9 Wkts
313 / 6 Wkts
Won by 90 Runs
Super
SCLYL 'A'
Stray Lion 'A'
Pindolia
Stray Lion 'A'
120 All Out
320/8 Wkts
Won by 200 Runs
Steve Tikolo - 150
One
Swamibapa 'B'
Kongonis Dev
Nbi Club
Swamibapa 'B'
213 All Out
177 All Out
Won by 36 Runs
One
Ruaraka 'A'
Nbi.Gymkhana
Ruaraka
Ruaraka 'A'
276 / 8 Wkts
230 / 9 Wkts
Won by 46 Runs
Amit Shukla - 107
Devesh Patel - 60
David Maina - 97
Udip - 42
Dil Patel - 2/30
Manoj Asani - 3/14
Vankatesh - 2/33
Amit Shukla - 2/7
One
Nbi Nookers 'A'
Ngara
Parklands
Nbi Nookers 'A'
242 All Out
162 All Out
Won by 80 Runs
Kennedy Obuya - 80
Sunil Joseph - 32
Amit J - 61
Maulik Trivedi - 21
Jay Solanki - 7/48
Moin - 3/28
Jagrat Patel - 2/42
Rajesh Patel - 3/30
Two
Aga Khan
SCLYL 'B'
Jafferys
Aga Khan Won
218 All Out
181 All Out
by 37 Runs
Two
Stray Lions 'B'
Golden XI
Peponi
Stray Lions ' B
141 / 5 Wkts
140 All Out
Won by 5 Wkts
Chirag Sheth - 47
Kamlesh - 36
Tanveer Shiekh - 41
Mitesh - 22
Viral - 2/37
Anand R - 3/41
Ankil - 1/20
Suresh - 3/44
Two
Sir Ali 'B'
Goan Institute 'A'
Sir Ali
Sir Ali 'B' Won
270 / 9 Wkts
269 All Out
by 1 Wkt
Taufiq - 60
Rahim - 102*
Zeeshan - 59
Khuzema - 46
Khuzema - 4/43
Ali - 3/48
Rajesh - 2/32
Jibran - 3/60
Three
Goan Institute 'B'
Women's XI
GI
Goan Institute 'B'
288 / 6 Wkts
186 All Out
Won by 102 runs
Savan Desai- 68
Pearlyn Omamo- 55
Raja Sarkar- 64
Salim Ramji- 2/32
Ruth- 2/29
Gurvinder Singh- 2/33
Belinda- 2/37
Three
Aaryan
Nbi Nookers 'B'
Nbi Sch
Aaryans Won
251 All Out
104 All Out
by 147 Runs
Bernard Okuyo - 87
Pramod - 21
Bhavya Kapoor - 30
Bhavya - 4/22
Manoj - 4/41
Joseph - 3/30
Ram - 2/38
Three
Oshwal XI
Parklands
Highridge
Parklands Won
112 All Out
240 All Out
by 128 Runs
Three
Ruaraka 'B'
Bye
Bye
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6:57
KenolKobil and Engen in Zimbabwe Joint Venture..
» RIBA CAPITAL 
Engen, South Africa’s leading refined petroleum products company, and KenolKobil , the largest indigenous African petroleum marketing company in the East and Central African Region, have signed a sale and purchase agreement to jointly acquire all the shares in Shell Zimbabwe and BP Zimbabwe.The acquired entities were previously operated by BP on behalf of the joint venture which marketed under both the BP and Shell brands in Zimbabwe.
With this transaction, Engen and KenolKobil have acquired the best developed assets in the oil industry in Zimbabwe, consisting of more than 75 service stations spread across the country, as well as several depots, located in Harare, Bulawayo,Mutare, Gweru and other major towns in Zimbabwe.
This seems a good move especially if the coalition govt. in Zimbabwe can hold it together and emerge as a better run country which would only mean an upside for KenolKobil and with this move now KenolKobil has a footprint in East, Central and Southern Africa Regions.
The acquisition is in line with KenolKobil’s expansionary plans, as evidenced by the recent entry into Burundi where they acquired from Engen in Burundi; Oil Burundi Limited.
KenolKobil was suspended from the NSE today as this transaction takes place.
Post based on KenolKobil press release to be found here from KenolKobil and here the softcopy for download.
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Zain sells 46% to Indian/Malaysian consortium for $13.7Bn
» RIBA CAPITAL Kuw
ait based Zain which operates in 24 countries and has nearly 70M mobile subscribers has signed a $13.7Bn deal, transferring a 46 per cent ownership of the company (Zain Group) to an Indian/Malaysian telecoms consortium.The buying consortium is led by India’s conglomerate Vavasi Group and Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary, a Malaysian billionaire. This sounds like another name change is on the cards.
Its now not clear if the Zain Group is still interested in selling off its African assets as reported here.
Although separate reports indicated that the Zain Africa sale seems to be still on, but Morocco and Sudan businesses will not be up for sale in the Africa assets batch. Which after Vivendi walked out of a deal is now in talks with Reliance Communications of India.
But this will depend on whether these new shareholders are willing to let go those ‘valuable’ African assets, or prefer to reinvest in them and grow the businesses. More details here.
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2:56
TPF3 ‘Motown Murder’
» Media Madness Seriously don’t know where to start. Buuuut Christian flipped his cunt switch when Juliana told him he wasn’t all that, he responded with ‘It doesn’t matter’ but Ian knows how to throw water at a bitch! He told him what’s what. This week they have FIVE peeps on Probation. [...]
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2:46
Where are they now?
» Media Madness Robert ‘Mlevi’ Warobi Where to start, at Capital he used to go off the radar for days!!! On a drinking spree aih! At Nation he was fired for missing work pia, he was briefly at Kiss, but at an office party he punched MK hehe, when Easy re-launched he was hosting drive but that didn’t work [...]
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2:44
Scramble
» Media Madness Now that Teddy has been evited from BBA, we think Capital can’t wait to have him back, we all know they’re desperate for a ‘personality’
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2:43
WE WERE RIGHT!!
» Media Madness We told you a few weeks back that Vincent Ochieng, Capital Fm’s breakfast producer was leaving. We were right!!! Hahaha today is his last day at Capiro…good luck dude!
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2:41
Hecklers on air!
» Media Madness This people forget that the mic is inches away from their mouths! First off, Shaffie Weru…he is always in a hurry to finish talking coupled with the shouting = NOISE! Then we have DNG from 8PM dude! Seriously stop shouting…. Then this morning I had to listen to Kiss, cause a reader called me a dumb [...]
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2:40
The fuck??
» Media Madness Homeboyz has a show called ‘Fun from one’ who are the hosts on that show?? Cause the accents and the giggling left me dazed…didn’t get their names.
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2:38
Time wasting activity of the week
» Media Madness Memo to NTV! There’s more to business news than the Stock Market!
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2:35
SPOTTED!
» Media Madness Citizen Tv’s Johnson Mwakazi along Moi avenue at around 1pm. Dude had a bible in hand…my gal tells me he was looking hot!
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2:34
Hot listen of the week
» Media Madness Munene Nyaga Although he ain’t on air this week, he makes me happy. When he laughs we all laugh J and word is he is really good to work with and unlike other ‘celebs’ he’ soo cool. I met him on the corridors of NMG and dude said hi to me like we were old [...]
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2:34
Hot TV show of the week
» Media Madness Sebuleni First let me demonize a certain writer for calling her Kenya’s Oprah, she will get that title when she gives away cars!! Anywaay! She’s soft spoken and sticks to the issues, although sometimes she brings ugly to TV (Oyunga Pala) but hey, the show is kinda aight!
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1:53
Jukwaani! A Festival of Performance Literature 17th - 20th Sept 09 Goethe Institut, Nairobi
» Kenyanpoet * JUKWAANI! ** A FESTIVAL FOR PERFORMANCE LITERATURE ** THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2009 TO SUNDAY 20 SEPTEMBER 2009 ** FESTIVAL OPENING: THURSDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2009 - 6 PM * * GOETHE-INSTITUT NAIROBI ** MONROVIA STREET ** NAIROBI ** ENTRY FREE *
Goethe-Institut and Alliance Française come together again, in another joint initiative supported by the special fund for cultural projects, established by the French and Germany Ministries of Foreign Affairs created on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the Elysée Treaty. Following the visual arts project, Contemporary Art in Kenya juried competition/exhibition in 2006, This partnership centers around a festival for literature as stage performance.
In Africa, literature traditionally has always been performance, inseparably intertwined with music and dance, before an audience. In Europe, this connection gradually disappeared, but has recently experienced a rebirth, by the circuitous route through youth culture word-art, through Rap and Slam Poetry. Jukwaani! brings all forms and scenes of performance literature together for four days: From the high culture Swahili literature to Poetry Slam, from Swahili free style to indigenous Story Telling, from the Nairobi poets to Rap. Featuring Abdilatif Abdalla, Ahmad Nassir, Sheikh Ahmed Nabhany, the German Slammer Dalibor Markovic, Talking Drums of Africa, Tony Smitta Mochama, Juliani, Rapcha the Sayantist, Johny of Span Wan, Ukoo Flani, Zamaleo among others.
The festival is held in conjunction with the conference "Swahili poetry in performance“ organized by Bordeaux and Bayreuth universities and IFRA, Venue: IFRA-BIEA, Laikipia Rd. Kileleshwa.
In association with the Kenya Cultural Center
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1:44
WHY THE BANKING INDUSTRY SHOULD BE ABOLISHED
» Kenyantykoon's Blog I think that the banking industry should be totally wiped off the face of the earth, its existence totally annihilated never to be spoken of again by the lips of a clean soul. You want to know why? There are a multitude of reasons but the one that rises to the top is a concept called [...]
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1:15
Is There Anything Like A Kenyan Dream?
» You Missed This What American dream?
Of course I would love to talk about the American dream, but having lived out there I find nothing realistic about it. Indeed, it is dead. If dreams were made of pain, then what folks go through to achieve the dream in America is just what a man does not need. In Europe the pain is even more acute given the secretly racist nature of folks in that continent to the north of us.
Which brings me to what I hope we can and must choose to work on for the sake of our children and posterity. I'm talking here about the Kenyan dream. By invoking the term dream, I'm not talking about a utopia or an essentially perfect little island here in East Africa. No. What I'm actually about to envision for your consideration is a nation united by a set of principles and governed by a core of goals that all her citizens will work to achieve...since the goals will be understood as the mark of success.
Before I lay out the goals, let me warn here that seasoned democracies in the West have struggled over the years to create nations that were truly living the dream, yet as any Diasporian will tell you, that dream can remain a dream for a long long time. Take America, for example, can anybody tell me that struggling with bigotry and xenophobia is something a great nation like that one would want to be confronting this deep into the history of the world? Wasn't it the dream of the Founding Fathers and even Dr. King that one day the children of America would all be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin?
Makes me wonder.
But so much for that.
Here is the Kenyan Dream:
1. That all Kenyans who want to work will find jobs that pay enough for them to take care of their children and provide a warm nest for their spouses in the form of a reasonable home.
2. That Kenyans will learn to see fellow Kenyans as members of one big family, where the pain of one brother or sister hurts us all.
3. That this nation will be governed democratically by men and women who place the Lord first in everything they do.
Fellow Kenyans, on this beautiful Monday morning in Nairobi, I'm back to my office humbled by a ride I took deep into a zone where my Kalenjin brothers live. I felt deeply inspired by the love extended to me and my team out there. Those are the moments that make it hard for me to lose hope in the future of this nation. It may be long in coming, but we have a bright future. In spite of the many problems we face, we can and must work to overcome them one at a time.
It is a blessing to have a dream.
Let it be the Kenyan dream!Kumekucha
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Sheng Word Of The Week: mbringish
» The African Accent mbringish
-nounin the African accent: m-breen-gish
who used this first? : Unknown
when was it first used?: Late 2000’s
definition in English: Girlfriend, or woman, or female, usually considered beautiful
synonyms: Chikita, Chimama, Chipela, Chipipi, Demu, Manzi, Mboga, Mresh, Mshee, Mshi, Msupa, Mude, Supuu, Supu, Veggies, WaifudhesUsage examples:
Mbringish wangu anazusha.
My girlfriend is complaining.
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