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Kenya Rugby : New sponsors almost in sight
» Rugby in Kenya Kenya Rugby : New sponsors almost in sight
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RVCA Crown Berger 20-20 draw
» Kenya Cricket RVCA have today announced the draw for their 20-20 competition that will feature 7 teams and will be sponsored by Crown Berger Paints - one of crickets most regular and loyal sponsors.
Full Draw:
25TH OCTOBER-- 9AM KHALSA V/S MELVINS (GAME 1) 1PM RVSC V/S SWAMIBAPA (GAME 2) 1ST NOV ---------- 9AM SCARECROW V/S MELVINS 1PM ROYAL CUBS V/S RVSC 8TH NOV ----------- 9AM RVSC V/S KHALSA 1PM SPINKNIT V/S ROYAL CUBS 15TH NOV ----------9AM MELVINS V/S SWAMIBAPA 1PM KHALSA V/S SCARECROW 22ND NOV --------9AM RVSC V/S SCARECROW 1PM SPINKNIT V/S KHALSA 6TH DEC 9AM MELVINS V/S ROYAL CUBS 1PM SPINKNIT V/S SWAMIBAPA ---------------------------CHRITMAS BREAK- NEW YEAR BREAK-------------------------- 10TH JAN 2010 9AM SWAMIBAPA V/S ROYAL CUBS 1PM - SPINKNIT V/S RVSC 17TH JAN 9AM SCARECROW V/S ROYAL CUB 1PM - KHALSA V/S SWAMIBAPA 24TH JAN 9AM SPINKNIT V/S SCARECROW 1PM - MELVINS V/S RVSC 31ST JAN 9AM KHALSA V/S ROYAL CUBS 1PM - MELVINS V/S SPINKNIT 7TH FEB 9AM SCARECROW V/S SWAMIBAPA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 14TH FEB 9AM 1ST SEMIFINAL 1PM SECOND SEMIFINAL 21ST FEB 9AM- FINALS--------------------------------------------------- Become a fan of Kenya Cricket.com on facebook: [www.facebook.com] -
South Africa next up for Kenya?
» Kenya Cricket I hope this story taken from the Cricket Kenya webpage is correct. If so it is a HUGE coup for the administrators and should encourage sponsors to get on board. Poor excuse from England for not playing, if they wont be ready to play Kenya how on earth to they consider that they will be ready to face South Africa? Given the recent results in Zimbabwe, lets hope the Kenyan selectors get the team balance right this time round...
"Kenya will play South Africa in two one day matches next month Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}Cricket Kenya Chief Executive Officer, Tom Tikolo said the first match will begin on November 8th before winding up the tour with the second match two days later.
The team which is in Zimbabwe for a series of matches will only have two weeks to prepare before jetting out to South Africa for the all important matches.
This will be the second time the second placed cricket nation in the world will be having a match with their Africa counterpart in two years. Kenya lost all the matches last year but managed to display good performance."
The development is good for Kenya as not many teams are always ready to play any other match outside their calendar.
South Africa will use the matches to prepare for their meeting with England who are will be in the country for a series of matches. Tikolo said they had hoped to play England while in South Africa but the English were not ready for the fixture.
Tikolo said the tour will be good as the team will get the much needed practice ahead of the world cup. “We are grateful that this has come up as this will give the players the much needed match practice and at the same time improve player’s performances,” he said.
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Only Kalonzo Can Guarantee Kenya Peace
» You Missed This 
The Honourable VP Kalonzo Musyoka has been erroneously and selfishly put on the defensive mode about his quest to unite Kenyans. Kalonzo is only being truthful and saying-as-it-is unlike the majority politicians who mask their tribal modus operandi.
Kenyan politics is tribe-based and Kalonzo’s KKK alliance is nothing but testimony to that truism. Many may deride him as spineless but no Kenyan politician can hold a candle of GODLINESS and HONESTY to the MP for Mwingi North.
After wrong footing pretenders to the throne in PNU, now Brother Stevo is whipping ODM’s backside. What is more, the God-fearing and saved VP is the MOST POPULAR and ELECTABLE among the masquerading lot.
Reverse logic informs you that the VP would not be receiving so many brickbats were it not for his popularity which his opponents are cheekily bent on diminishing. The KKK Juggernaut is one hell of a political edifice that leaves others shaking in their boots. With the other two Ks already associated with power, only one K deserves the presidency. Calculative Kalonzo knows when to strike it rich and hot.
Saintly mien
Kalonzo’s political track record spanning over a quarter century speaks for itself. He should know better when he warns us against negative ethnicity drawing out attention to two million Sudanese killed from such heinous acts. He is unparalleled ambassador of peace and a DIPLOMAT to boot.
Kalonzo’s detractors give wings to the old adage that a prophet is never revered at home. While Sudan and Somali owe their PEACE to his singular efforts, we cage him into our narrow tribal jingoism. Stevo proved that charity begins at home when he SWALLOWED his political pride and saved Kenya from stewing in her won blood.
Only Kalonzo’s honesty can save us from our own evil selves. Look around you and see fake witnesses at Waki’s commission seeking protection with the singular intention to make hay. Add that to con IDPs parking SUVs next to their tents and you get a country blissfully mocking God's wrath unto them.
Our politics feeds exclusively on deception and ONLY Kalonzo can dissolve the burden of imperial Presidency and its attendant impunity. Go Stevo go and unite the willing majority of Kenyans.Kumekucha
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15:42
Where did he...
» Mo-Mo Baggins Looking for this Mo chap, are you?
Word on the street is that he's moved home to momobaggins.blogspot.com
Don't take my word for it though, check it out for yourself.
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10:54
The Patriot
» Kenya Imagine I can still hear J.MKariuki speaking from the grave, saying that "it takes more than a flag and anational anthem" to make a nation.
Jesse Maasai on patriotism this Kenyatta day.
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10:17
Idea Exchange: Local Techies
» bankelele Idea Exchange: Local Techies
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10:00 THE SPECIALTY MUTUAL FUND UNPLUGGED!!
» Kenyantykoon's Blog Truth be told, I just stumbled on this type of fund very recently. As their name implies, these funds specialize in the shares of companies in a particular industry, sector or geographic region or a specific type of stocks e.g. some invest in IPOs, others in sectors that undergo cyclic patterns like agriculture, others in emerging [...]
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9:53
Ugandan Anti-Homosexuality Bill: What you can do
» Black Looks UPDATE US Evangelists are involved in the Homophobia Bill – as per this report Sadly, this witch-hunt has the blood stained fingerprints of leading American evangelicals. The Fellowship, (aka The Family) one of America’s most powerful and secretive fundamentalist organization’s, converted Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni (pictured top) to its anti-gay brand of Christianity, which is the [...]
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Guest Post - 7 Essential Blogs for Rugby Fanatics
» Rugby in Kenya Guest Post - 7 Essential Blogs for Rugby Fanatics
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“Eater of Death”
» Black Looks Powerful performance by Kenyan poet and activist Shailja Patel calling for an end to the US war against the people of Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Wewe!! Behave
» Media Madness Word is some ladies at Capital (Who joined juuzi) are not happy that the oh so lovely Italia is back on air! Aside from doing ‘Mirror, mirror on the wall which freckle of mine is the fairest of them all’ their new activity is making Italia’s life a wee bit hard! Listen ladies it’s not our [...]
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3:15
A snapshot of the Stop Hunger in Kenya Concert featuring Oliver Mtukudzi, Suzanna Owiyo and other African Artists
» Kenyanpoet Last Saturday(17th) was quite an eventful one with 2 events that were set to take place the same evening in different parts of Nairobi. Just A Band were launching their 2nd Album title '82' at the GoDown Art centre from 7pm. On the other side of town at the Bomas, Action Aid with collaboration from various other organisations were hosting various artists from around Africa in a bid to raise money for those dying of hunger in Kenya.
The concert had brought together Professor J, AY from Tanzania, Ntsika from SA, Didier Awadi from Senegal, Kidum from Burundi, Wahu, Nameless and Suzanna Owiyo from Kenya and the show stopper, Oliver Mtukudzi from Zimbabwe.
The turnout was huge despite the cold weather and a sky that threatened to open up anytime and needless to day I had to give the Album launch a miss.
I needed to take photos of Oliver which I failed to do during his previous performance a few weeks ago. He however declined to take photo with fans but I did manage to capture some good moments and even pulled a 'hand on KICC' photo stunt.
PS. Mstari wa Nne fully represented and we had a great time listening to some poetry perfomance by Ntsika. Denis actually made the whole congregation sing the Kenya National Anthem at some point just before a speech by one of the organizers.
Enjoy the album and the short clips of Tuku's team thoroughly entertaining revelers.
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3:10
Kenya: The Shamba System and Deforestation
» Mauri Yambo In a column published in Kenya's Daily Nation of September 18th, 2009, Dagi Kimani staunchly defends the shamba system, long practised in Kenya, against the call for its abolition by the likes of Wangari Mathai and Kenya's PM, Raila Odinga. He rejects the notion that it is a factor in the country's loss of forest cover. However, his minority view does not stop the truth (the weight of evidence) from being true (that is, from pointing to its incontrovertibility and many-sidedness).
Kimani acknowledges that his stand on the shamba system is not based on "any particularly wide experience in conservation or education in environmental matters, but on the fact that [he] was born and brought up in Lari constituency, a third of which is under forests where the "shamba system" was successfully practised until the mid-1990s."
In his view, the shamba system is simply "an arrangement where farmers are allowed to farm on government forest-land for a period of up to three years after commercial timber plantations have been harvested."
He elaborates:
[Read more]"THE HARVESTING IS DONE AFTER THE trees have matured and can produce good timber and other products. This phase, in which all trees are cut down leaving bare ground, is called "clear-felling". Clear-felling only applies to plantations of exotic tree species, such as cypress and pine. In Lari, which, on the Nairobi-Naivasha Highway, stretches from the Uplands junction to a kilometre short of Fly-over, travellers can see examples of these plantations, with rows and rows of trees planted just like any other crop.
The shamba system was designed to allow farmers to benefit from the fertile soils just harvested of trees. But this was not exactly charitable. About two years after the farmers were allowed into the forest-land, government workers would replant the land with rows and rows of pine or cypress.
It was a neat trick. As the farmers weeded their crops growing alongside the young tree seedlings, they would, in effect, ensure that the latter were not choked by vines and fast-growing weeds. This, in effect, saved the forest department from the need to hire thousands of workers to tend to the young trees. In the third year after the young trees had become sturdy, the forester would relocate the farmers to a new clear-felled ground, and the cycle would go on.
Contrary to Prof Maathai's assertion, the shamba system was never designed for areas that carry indigenous plantations...In Lari, when the law worked in the 1970s and 1980s, the only indigenous trees that one was allowed to harvest from time to time were fallen bamboo, and this very sparingly under the watchful eye of the forester..."
Like Kimani, Peter Oduol sees considerable merit in the shamba system, arguing that:The Shamba system, a form of Taungya where agricultural crops are grown together with forest tree species, has been quite widespread in the high-potential areas of Kenya since the early 1900s, and still is very popular. When properly practiced, the system allows sustained, optimum production of food crops along with forestry species from the same land and thus meets most of the social and economic needs of the shamba farmer.
The weight of available evidence suggests that this spirited defence of the shamba system is too narrowly cast -- Kimani on his neighbourhood in Lari (which allegedly never had a natural forest cover) and Oduol on the economic benefits of the commons to those who "plunder" it for their particular gain. In effect, both are in denial vis-a-vis the accelerating, across-the-country depletion of natural forest cover that is evident all around for any unbiased eye, and mind, to see.
A report of the African Conservation Foundation, though mild in its own assessment of the deleterious effects of the shamba system on natural forest cover, nonetheless captures, non-commitally, the essential and powerful evidence against the shamba system:
[Read more [rpc.technorati.com]"The shamba system failed in some places because the Forestry Department had no staff to supervise the protection of the young plantations after retrenching most of the forest guards and phasing out the cadre of staff referred to during the colonial era as patrol men...
By the late 1980s, conservationists had started raising the red flag on the system's failure as signs that the scheme was being mismanaged and abused begun to emerge...
Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) was the first government organisation to criticise the system following its restoration by Presidential Decree in 1993 with claims that 19 per cent of natural forests had been encroached upon by the shamba system.
For instance, KWS argued that the shamba owners had secretly extended their boundaries to the Naro Moru Gate of Mt Kenya National Park, and that the remaining forests were being subjected to extreme pressure from squatters, who were felling more trees, and burning indigenous forest areas for cultivation.
Later, KWS was to expose an even more flagrant abuse of the system when its surveys indicated that 143 plantations, of approximately 200 hectares along Ruguti and Thuchi rivers, had been planted with the lucrative, but illegal marijuana instead of trees...
In 2004, the Government decided to stop the system and gave all the cultivators notice to vacate the forests by March the same year."
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It Was Morning Again: Haiku
» Mauri Yambo I walked in shallow
Thought. ’Twas morning in Chin Ya –
Rain and fire crack.
[Nairobi: Jan 16 & Jan 22, 2005 [rpc.technorati.com]
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Come closer…
» Media Madness Listen, the Sunday Nation had a story about two Kenyan Gay men and their civil union in London. As soon as that story hit the news stands Kenyans went into overdrive calling the union un- African (What’s really African then?) Here’s a sample of what people had to the say on the Nation site ‘The word [...]
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Your Theme
» Storymoja When you are writing technical or business pieces, your theme is already quite defined. However, when it comes to works of fiction, a writer might find it a little tricky to define the theme of their work. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the literary term theme is “the subject of a piece of writing.” You [...]
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Separated at BIRTH!
» Media Madness Anne Hathaway – actress and funny lady Pinky – Drum East Africa -editor
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Story of the Week
» Storymoja This week’s Story of the Week comes all the way from a Kenyan living in Germany. The first part of his story about learning how to drive was posted last week. The story continues in this week’s blog. Driving License 2. Look out for it. To read the Driving License 1, go here. Do you have [...]