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21:58
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In the first instalment of a series, Peter Swan recalls his service at an exciting time in Kenya's history. Background. Brought up a Catholic, my childhood was disrupted when two of my school years were spent evacuated away from city life in London to rural Newton Abbot in the County of Devonshire. My Christian upbringing continued, installing the belief that God monitored my every action, including my thoughts. Schooling in those days also emphasized the fact that the sun always shone on the British Empire.
Read more here.
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12:25
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This week on kenyaImagine blogs - Doomsday prophecy or prediction? (Georgian guide stones)
I was on my usual quest to find something, anything that satisfies my constant thirst and curiosity for knowledge. I had studied Statistics for hours and needed a break... thats how I came across this information about the Georgia Guide Stones.
- Olympics: nation switchers
It looks like it's not only Kenyans switching teams for better pasture. For Kenyans, it has mostly been for monetary compensation.
- Nigerian man to kick "82 of his women" out in the cold
I was amused the other day when I heard the story of an 84 year old Nigerian man who has 86 women for wives. This is just a staggering number! Wait, that's not all. The story went on to say that he has at least 170 children!!
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12:22
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Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Justice Minister Martha Karua insist that judges and magistrates should sign performance contracts whereas the Chief Justice Evans Gicheru and other senior members of the bench contend that such a move will undermine judicial independence in Kenya. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st2:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) }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:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; 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;} The spirited opposition to performance contracting by the Chief Justice and his colleagues displays a lack of conceptual understanding of the process. A performance contract is basically an agreement involving the government and a state entity which outlines the broad objectives for that entity, lays down goals for quantifying productivity, and offers incentives for accomplishing these targets. Judicial independence is a legal dictum; it warrants that the decisions of the judiciary are impartial and exempt from manipulation by the other arms of government or by private and political interests. Read more.
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12:12
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The average police officer's job requires that he makes instant street decisions of the wisest and least provocative caliber yet he was not tested for emotional stability before joining the force. He has an ambivalent view of his work and often regrets joining the force. He feels that he is only a cog in a machine. He believes that much of the public regards him with contempt and hostility. Attitude samplings show too, that he is prejudiced against women, youth and low income earners. He has little appreciation of the psychology and culture of these populations. He is aware that fellow officers often treat citizens with rudeness, abuse and even roughness.
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0:07
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A few weeks ago, I went to Swaziland. While there, I went abseiling, a great sport where one climbs down a rope in rock climbing. The view from the top was breathtaking as it was scary. However, I made it to the bottom! pictures here.
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19:34
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We have complained in these pages about the bad job the IFC did as a transactional advisor on the RVR deal that put Sheltam and other partners in charge of running the Kenya-Uganda Railway. Much of the trouble stems from Sheltam's lack of experience running a logistics business. The rail business is complex. Kenya Railways needed a big capital injection to strategize and execute a plan that would rapidly increase efficiency and make rail travel an enjoyable experience for cargo forwaders and consumers. Of course, executing such a strategy would have meant undertaking new projects that required a change of train carriers; I would be surprised if the deal was silent on getting the rail gauge right. To have a company that used to sell railway spare parts in South Africa as the lead stake-holder - its CEO running a complex railway network with no money, but hoping to bootstrap from its operations - is, in this situation, not really a good idea.
Read more from Peter Ndiangui here.
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16:19
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Congrats to our Olympics team, particularly Pamela Jelimo for her gold, and for being the first Kenyan woman to take win a gold medal at the Olympics.
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15:30
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Last week, international attention shifted focus from the excitement of the Beijing Olympics to yet another troubled dispute in the caucuses region. The de facto- independent regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia , both landlocked in the Georgian state, have continually pursued the dreams of independence from Georgian, since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Read more from Nisha Fakir.
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15:11
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The recent spate of violent strikes in public secondary schools brings into sharp focus the role of Ministry of Education in the management of Kenya's public education system. 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:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; 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;} Management is the art of getting people together to accomplish desired goals through planning, organizing, sourcing, leading or directing, and controlling an organization or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal. Education management attends to strategies that keep education resources current and accessible; it ensures that people have the most recent and suitable education to do their work. Read more from Capt. Collins Wanderi Munyiri here.
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8:49
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Once upon a time, death and dying made sense, you died because you were old, you died because some lunatic ran a red light, you died because a snake bit you, you died because your heart arrested. People died in a myriad of ways and obituaries made for an interesting read... Dorothy Ghettuba blogs from New Mexico where she is attending this years AIDS conference. Read more. And you can RSS to her blog so that you are notified anytime she makes a new entry!
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21:41
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It has been about six months since Kenya's infamous surge of violence that left hundreds of Kenyans dead, and thousands without homes. Now, we watch as young high school boys burn down their facilities in an attempt to get their way. Is this the new culture? Are we teaching our youth that the only way to negotiate is through violence? Join in on the discussion with some of kenyaImagine writers as they address this crisis: - Kamale T discusses his experience as a high school student at the Starehe Boys' Center here.
- Capt Collins Wanderi is an educator. Here, he addresses poor parenting and policies within the education as factors that are to blame for the current crisis in Kenyan high schools.
- In the cane and our culture of violence, Barasa Simiyu proposes that perhaps it is not such a surprise that our children have grown into such violent young adults.
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1:34
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In the last five years the legislative and social landscape allocated to dealing with the difficulties experienced by persons living with disabilities-or persons with different abilities- has been positively affected by the official gazettement of a large part of the Disability Act in June 2004. On the 15th of July 2008, the Disability Fraternity, with the support of the Center for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) and the Ministry for Home Affairs, held an authorized workshop at the Nairobi Sarova Stanley to discuss the Constitutional Review Process and Content by Persons with Disabilities (PWDs). Read more from Akoit Omasete here.
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1:32
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Kenya was always Britain’s most troublesome African colony because it was neither one thing nor the other. It was not on the Atlantic west coast, with a wholly African population, nor in the south, where white settlers dominated. It was betwixt and between. British policy vacillated accordingly. Kenya’s historiography has been similarly stormy. Its controversies are important, not only for what they reveal about Kenya, but also for the light they shed on wider debates about imperialism and colonialism, especially settler colonialism, and the nature of African interaction with it. As to the last, historians used to frame their arguments in simple terms of resistance and collaboration. They have long conceived of a more complex dialogue. That historiographical transition informs the present argument, in which three controversies are examined in the light of colonial Kenya’s seven ages of ambiguity.
Read here from John Lonsdale on the history of colonial Kenya.
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22:30
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Hope you'all had a fun weekend! Here is some interesting blog posts to make for an interesting Monday :) To read all of them, click here. Sign up if you want to see your blog here. For summaries and direct links to each post, read below: - Amina on Why does Obama hate my family? She reacts to a commentary by Ken Gray who criticizes Obama for making sweeping negative statements about black men in America.
- In my own eyes-- Msazi describes a peaceful evening with her brother and her partner.
- Enigmaress blogs on life: If , You have to hope, even hope is a lie, A new earth: awakening to your life's purpose, don't ask life, "why me?" instead say, "try me ," and if it bleeds, it leads.
- Johari on random idle chatter blogs about a music video she shares while chatting with a friend online.
- Amina in her post: on hair extensions and why you should reconsider that weave discovers that human hair extensions are not exactly the best thing for one to put on one's head.
- George Nyongesa from Bunge la Wananchi shares his experience (with images) with the Kenya Police at the Jevanjee Gardens: Police Terror on Bunge La Wananchi.
- Ritch wonders whether the recent Kenyan high school fires are accidents, or arson.
- George Nyongesa draws a parallel between high food prices and corruption in Kenya.
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5:02
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On NTV's news at 9pm yesterday, 16th July, a report by Robert Nagila was aired showing a confrontation between National Heritage Minister William Ole Ntimama and Chepalungu MP Isaac Ruto in the presence of Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Agriculture Minister William Ruto. Read More.
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14:14
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 Here is a brief update on what our bloggers have been upto since my last posting a couple of weeks ago. Enjoy. For a listing of all the latest blogs, click here. - Fear and Blogging-- Sunny overcomes this fear
- Truth in Advertising-- Sembe in his satirical post calls on us to believe in advertisers, companies after all spend millions in advertising.
- Catching Up-- Johari shares a story about a friend who visits her fiance's home.
- Mr. Kibaki-- No amnesty for Kimunya-- a letter from George Nyongesa of Bunge la Wananchi
- Retailing in Kenya, Nakumatt reviewed-- Stephen Wanyama begins discussion on the supermarket industry in Kenya. Is Nakumatt good or bad for the economy and mwananchi?
- The Cry Fizzles: Ritch's poem on resigning.
- A sentimental village dam: Ritch on his visit to Nyahururu last year.
- She'll be fine: Sembe on breaking up with his girlfriend, a girl who is really not his girlfriend.
- Kisumu's white elephant: Stephen Wanyama on the stealth creation of a public private enterprise in Kisumu. You didn't know about this one? Read on.
- just a band: Amina discovers a new Kenyan band. A new sound.
- The dangers of being cosmopolitan and eschewing macho campaigning-- Amir Ibrahim on Jesse Jackson's uncolorful comments on Barack Obama.
- Police teargas Bunge La Wananchi at Jevanjee Gardens-- George Nyongesa describes how it went down.
- Vodafone steals Safcom glory--PNdiangui wonders... .
- Insomnia: Sembe discusses his ailment and possible cures.
- Life.. is our reality real? or is it all an illusion? Enigmaress on why it is important to be yourself.
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7:23
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Here's a summary on the weekend and Monday blogs on kenya imagine. Interested in blogging and increasing your readership? Just sign up and type away! Blogs are unedited! - Sembe on Break Ups 2 Makes Up blogs about his relationship that never was, but was? Huh? Yup, read more!
- Richard writes a poem giving an Ode to the Charade: Zimbabwe.
- Josephine K calls on readers to list Scholarships in the US and Kenya, and anywhere to share with others. Please share!
- Richard on the East Africa Federation and Tanzania's seeming reluctance to join the union.
- Amir Ibrahim wonders why in sports we support who we support, how do we decide to pick our team or sportsman/woman?
- Josephine K discusses the challenges of blogging, of letting your diaries out into in to world.
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16:17
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Justus Siboe Makokha writes on East African Asians and their contributions to the arts here. In the past month, lovers of literature in Nairobi and Mombasa have had the exceptional chance of celebrating the official homecoming of Migritude , a powerful, one-woman oral poetic performance by Shailja Patel. The gifted artist entertained and educated enthusiastic spectators for four days at the Phoenix Theatre, Nairobi, 3 weeks ago. She then staged her show in Mombasa at the Aga Khan Academy, Likoni in late July. Her homecoming performances are courtesy of Ford Foundation, which is doing a laudable job supporting the revival of the arts and literature in post-Nyayo Kenya.
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- It's Vogue to Be Black-- Amina on Vogue's Black issue-- on newsstands this week.
It is certainly a departure from the usual white models (who all look alike if
you ask me). However, as we know fashion is cyclic and these women will soon not
be in vogue. Although the fashion industry reflects some on society, we
cannot rely on it to direct the trends on who is beautiful and who is not. Even
with white women, models hardly represent true society. - Reapology-- Sembe after killing someone writes the deceased a letter from prison, apologizing.
I have sat for long hours in this confined facility and reflected on how my actions have landed me in the place of collective solitude. I believe in the rehabilitation process, and it requires me to take responsibilityof my deeds. - Dating Escapade #1-- Johari describes a date that did not go so well.
- Mwangi cross-blogs his interview with Mashada founder and Ushahidi co-founder, David Kobia.
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13:15
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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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8:04
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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 the editors' del.icio.us page.
- 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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Hey Everyone, Pole we have been gone for a while. We have still been publishing on kenyaimagine, so check us out to get the latest articles. Over the past year, the Kenya Imagine team has struggled to see how best to meet all your needs. kenyaimagine.com/test will be our new home soon. Please check us out and send emails to editor@kenyaimagine.com and make suggestions and comments on what we have. Looking forward to hearing from you. cheers! -nekessa
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8:28
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I go dumpster-diving so you don't have to. The second wave of ODM responses to IDP resettlement has ranged from James Orengo's relatively erudite call for permanent resettlement of Gikuyu IDPs outside the Rift Valley - segregation in other words - to naked incitement of ethnic hatred from Taabu at Kumekucha . In between, we have Job Obonyo at Jukwaa. Lest I convey the wrong impression, let's note that sensible noises have been heard in the RVP recently. Read more from Daniel Waweru here.
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22:46
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With by-elections coming up in early June, controversy is brewing in Kenya over whether the Samuel Kivuitu led Electoral Commission of Kenya will be able to run the elections and furnish results acceptable to both sides. Especially important because parliament is split straight down the middle (evident at the Speaker's election), the by-elections are set for the 11th of June. In the contest, the representatives for Ainamoi and Embakasi constituencies will be chosen, to take on the roles of the late David Too and Mugabe Were. In Emuhaya constituency a replacement is sought for Kenneth Marende MP who was elected parliament's speaker while in Kilgoris and Wajir East, inconclusive contests at the General Election will finally be settled. Discuss here.
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22:45
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The other day, two colleagues on a listserv I subscribe to submitted posts that had troubling assumptions on growth and sovereignty in Kenya. One assumed that the 6 per cent economic growth achieved in the first Kibaki term had so significantly leveraged Kenya that it was making donors jittery - Kenya was no longer begging. She also made the assumption that, because Kenya was funding most of its budget from local sources at 93 per cent, the country had gained a new level of autonomy from its donors. Read more from Godwin R. Murunga here.
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7:51
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You would not know it to listen to the Kenyan media, but many of your countrymen are unable to return to their homes. Not even now, after the crisis has abated and a political settlement been entrenched. There was a time, not too long ago, when the aggressing political leadership decided it would not interfere in the violence. The ODM leader was reported telling a crowd in Kisumu that they should not attack the Gusii residents of the city - who had been cleansed along with the Gikuyu and Akamba. They voted for me, he explained, except that the Kibaki people stole our votes. There was no call for similar abstention from violence towards the Gikuyu. You sensed in those days, from the media narrative, from ODM-leaning civil society, and from the international understanding of the situation that the victims - mostly Gikuyu - somehow deserved the attacks on them. Read and discuss here.
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8:12
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The consensus around the world is that there is a food crisis upon us, and that the world simply cannot produce enough food to feed the growing population. The New York Times contributes as it continues to substitute hyperbole for information in its reporting on rising food prices: Hunger bashed in the front gate of Haiti's presidential palace. Hunger poured onto the streets, burning tires and taking on soldiers and the police. Hunger sent the country's prime minister packing. Haiti's hunger, that burn in the belly that so many here feel, has become fiercer than ever in recent days as global food prices spiral out of reach, spiking as much as 45 percent since the end of 2006 and turning Haitian staples like beans, corn and rice into closely guarded treasures.
Read more from Chris Blattman here.
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8:12
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Some time in 2003, the City Council of Nairobi constructed access roads into the Soweto slums of Embakasi. The slum, as is the norm in informal settlements across the country, had its vigilantes- a neighbourhood watch of some kind- who took care of anything and everything from security to conflict resolution. The access roads were quickly blocked off by hawkers and traders, who laid their wares on each side of the road so that vehicles could no longer access the slum.
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8:11
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The history of nations is written with the bloody point of a sword; the road to nationhood is paved with the corpses of heroes; the rivers of sovereignty, emancipation, social justice and equity burst their banks with the blood of believers. Our ancestors were martyred that we might possess this land. The war they fought, the deeds they signed, the alliances they made, all these brought us to that morning of December 12 th 1963. Uhuru! And on December 12 th 1964, the Republic of Kenya was realised. Independent, free, sovereign.
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11:28
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Barely a day after the swearing in of the Grand Coalition Cabinet, President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga told Kenyans to “stop the stupidity and shut up” if they wanted the two leaders to loosen the firm grip they have on the country. The president accused Kenyans of hypocrisy for criticizing him and Raila for forming a bloated Cabinet. “Kenyans asked Raila and I to stop killing poor people and we did,” the president said, obviously agitated. “They told us to form a Grand Coalition Government and we have. So where is all this stupidity coming from?”
Read more from Ombuya E. Okong'o here.
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11:25
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Kenya has been so dunked in political drama, transport frustration and security chaos in the last few months that it feels really strange when I wake up to no news. Still, there is always something going on. Bus fares have gone up. I have taken to eating left-over ugali in the morning with bad tasting tea made from tea dust that I buy from a roving vendor because it’s a lot cheaper than what I would get from a regular store. I cannot miss breakfast because the label on my box of medicines says "2 after meals twice a day'. Lunch does not exist in my lifestyle. Dinner is on my mother, if it wasn't for her I would be in a spot of trouble. Read more from Juliet Mararu here.
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11:24
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My mind has of late been engrossed in such matters as the Safaricom IPO, the Kenyan cabinet fiasco, and the elitism of Senator Obama. The world, meanwhile, is on the brink of a food disaster, such a major one that the very definition of hunger will soon be changed forever. Images of malnourished children will no longer be the face of starvation. We will instead see food labelled with extraordinarily exorbitant prices, shortages that force even the wealthy into long queues for food and total anarchy as countries in different parts of the world spiral out of control as the hungry demand that they be sated. Read more from Brian Mogaka here.
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14:01
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Nobel Laureate Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of Cape Town made a call to arms yesterday, that we embrace each other as part of the greater human family, a call needed in Kenya now, as much as ever. Read more from Noel Opoti here.
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13:57
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The President has just announced a new 42 Member Cabinet comprising the lead organ of the Grand Coalition government that follows from the February 28th National Accord. Most of those expected to be on the list as full Ministers were present, and there seems to have been a sincere effort to take into the tent as many of Kenya's ethnicities (regrettable that we still break it down like that), and something of an improvement in the prospects of three other constituencies, Kenyans from the arid and semi-arid districts, Kenyan Muslims and Kenyan women.
Discuss here.
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12:43
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Kenya's relative stability over the last two months lies in the hands of Kenya's political class. Yesterday's Cabinet gridlock resulted in riots and civil unrest in parts of the country. Until the National Accord and Reconciliation Act is fully implemented Kenya is once again destined for uncertain times.
Patrick Gathara o .
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12:34
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Rank foolishness and misunderstanding. Yet another example. Sijui, in a comment at Ory's, says: One thing I particularly like about the aftermath of the Kenyan election is that the average low income mwananchi fought back, and in my opinion they fought less for their civic freedoms......I think that is obvious by the nature of the blood letting.........but more for their naked self interest, as blatantly parochial and regressive as that might be. I now have far more respect for people acting on their suspicions and resentments than the cowardly, complacent and self absorbed ‘middle class'. And I don't want to make the mistake of painting the ENTIRE Kenyan middle class with the same brush, that would be dishonest and clearly there are many who fought the good fight however my point is, things would not have changed HAD THE VAST MAJORITY of the working class and low income not brandished their pangas.
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Read more from Godfrey Munira here.
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12:31
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A new report brings intriguing data about voting patterns in Kenya. To no one's surprise, elections in God's own country are mostly an exercise in ethnic head-counting. But not always. There are other factors that pull at the electorate, and at least in the minds of the respondents, evidence of an aspiration towards elections as a referendum on the performance of the incumbent rather than a mindless affirmation of ethnic affiliation. The importance of ethnicity it seems is dependent on the voter's self-ascribed identity, with "ethnics" more often employing feelings of group identity and "non-ethnics" more often making rational calculations of self and group interest. Read and Discuss here.
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12:26
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