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6:02
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Interesting analysis of how the (in)famous Sessional Paper no 10 authored by Mwai Kibaki is relevant to the current situation in Kenya.
Full text of the paper can be found here.
Obama Snr.’s critique can be found here.
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8:47
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So me and the fam were out of town for the holiday weekend…while driving to one of the tourist sites we visited, we came across groups of people parked on the side of the road waiting for cars participating in the Sasol Rally (never heard of it before) to drive by. It reminded me of [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mental Break: Safari Rally", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2008/05/06/mental-break-safari-rally/" });
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6:33
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Deadline for entry is May 8. Details are here.
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10:45
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- Interesting perspective on Kisumu youth who took part in the riots (if you ignore the author’s tendency for the overdramatic). I really wish more of our Kenyan writers / journalists would make an effort to talk to and write about the often faceless and nameless “violent youth with nothing to lose”.
- And another [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Hits April 24", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2008/04/24/quick-hits-april-24/" });
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6:52
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IDP’s
* There are 250 camps still existing countrywide. Little concrete solution for them and we don’t want them to become a forgotten species. Need symbolic gesture to remind govt and public about this situation – a group from CCP to spend night in the camps. Through this, they can strengthen the call for political [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Concerned Citizens for Peace Meeting Apr 18", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2008/04/23/concerned-citizens-for-peace-meeting-apr-18/" });
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17:19
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BY ONYANGO OLOO
1.0. Challenge # 1: Credibility
The Grand Coalition is slowly rousing to its feet amidst widespread cynicism, bewilderment, anger and disappointment.
The fact that almost half of the 220 member Kenya National Assembly will be in government is astounding, especially if one takes into account the high falutin’ earnest pledges by the three leading presidential [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Challenges of the Grand Coalition Part 1(guest post)", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2008/04/16/challenges-of-the-grand-coalition-part-1guest-post/" });
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16:55
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[I'm in Uppsala, Sweden speaking at a conference so posting will be light]
I’ve been spending the last week or two trying to revisit Kenya’s political history from an academic perspective (and trying to get back in to the habit of reading voraciously) with the help of a bunch of mailing lists that I subscribe to. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mungiki", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2008/04/15/mungiki/" });
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4:51
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The Multi-Sectoral Task Force on Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission and Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice (KPTJ) invites you to a public forum to be held on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at Norfolk Hotel Nairobi. Time 830 a.m – 12.30 p.m
The Government has now drafted a Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission Bill [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Forum on Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2008/04/15/forum-on-truth-justice-and-reconciliation-commission/" });
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6:26
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- One of the better written pieces on Mobitelea that I have seen. Too bad this issue was handled shoddily by ODM, they had a real opportunity to give this story legs. And I like that there is some finger pointing and Vodafone and the Brits as well - it takes two [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Hits April 8", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2008/04/08/quick-hits-april-8/" });
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3:13
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Analogies are being made between the current situation in Zimbabwe and the aftermath of the elections in Kenya. Others argue that the two are completely different. What worries me (apart from the prospect of Mugabe’s return) is that the possible development of a new trend of “civilian coups” in Africa. Nigeria and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Zimbabwe elections", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2008/04/04/zimbabwe-elections/" });
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14:18
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Details from one of the people who took part in the march can be found here. I’m happy to see that civil society is keeping up the pressure. I hope other Kenyans, especially middle-class Kenyans and those who have the luxury (responsibility?) of shifting our political paradigm but who are only too happy to [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Kenyans teargassed for demanding lean Cabinet", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2008/04/01/kenyans-teargassed-for-demanding-lean-cabinet/" });
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3:33
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ECK is basically absolving itself of any wrongdoing as far as the presidential vote tallying. The full report is here.
A summary of the disparities in the report (in comparison to what observers reported) can be found here.
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9:25
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How else do you explain how Uhuru Kenyatta is getting away with his ridiculous traffic de-congestion plan? Only in Kenya, can you attempt to ease congestion in the CBD by banning public transport. This solution comes from a guy who’s never ever even dreamed of taking public transport.
Beyond the ridiculousness in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "You can apparently fool Kenyans all of the time…", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2008/03/25/you-can-apparently-fool-kenyans-all-of-the-time/" });
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11:00
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…vote for Ushahidi at Netsquared website. Last day to vote is Friday 21st March 5:00 pm Pacific US Time
For those of you who have already voted, please note that this is different from the number of stars that we have already picked up (thanks y’all).
Hash, has a very detailed explanation of the process. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "One more time, pretty please…", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2008/03/20/one-more-time-pretty-please/" });
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8:41
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- Spitzer wants to be more than just a number…hehehe.
- Derrick Ashong in the New York Times.
- The Shikwekwes, an African ‘webcomic’.
- Interesting post by Ethan on transparency and corruption in Brazil. Speaking about public declaration of wealth by civil servants, what the hell is happening in Kenya? Wasn’t there [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Hits: Mar 18", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/2008/03/18/quick-hits-mar-18/" });
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4:55
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What: Report release on organized political violence and the crisis of
governance in Kenya
Who: Ben Rawlence, Human Rights Watch Africa researcher
When: Monday, March 17, 2008 at 10:00 a.m.
Where: Stanley Hotel, Nairobi
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4:51
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Hat tip AfroM
The competition is open to university students in Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda, Ethiopia, and Burundi.
The deadline for this is March 17th; so if you have some great ideas, you can still submit them for consideration. The categories/types of software gadgets and apps that they are looking for include:
(1) Best Gadget UI
(2) Best Local [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Google East Africa Gadget Competition", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=472" });
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5:56
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…I think some kind of active follow up with the Standard is necessary.
I have no problems with tabloid newspapers. In fact I regularly read them when I’m in Nairobi. I do have problems with a supposedly serious newspaper that has “tabloidish” tendencies - and I don’t think it’s not [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Now that I’m done gagging…", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=471" });
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9:55
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I have yet another post cooking, but I need to go and grapple with dinner for a one-year old who will chew only certain foods, depending on her mood. So I’ll just put up these links and wonder how Kenyan newspapers are managing to outdo themselves when it comes to crappy, and yes, irresponsible [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Excuse me while I gag…", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=470" });
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9:17
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I know there are readers who have issues with my posting of “humanitarian” efforts, and who doubt the efficacy of these efforts, and who feel that what is needed is more “political” ways to engage the “people/masses.” I have a response cooking in my mind. In the meantime, I will keep the info. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Peace Messages on Easy FM", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=469" });
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12:31
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On International Women’s Day
Saturday, 8 March 2008
WOMEN FOR KENYA
Invite All Kenyan Women to Join Together in a Peaceful March
As mothers, wives and daughters, Kenyan women have endured tragedy in the past two months. Too many of us have lost family members and homes. Others of us have done what we can to help them. Regardless [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Women’s March for Peace - March 8th", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=468" });
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5:14
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- Bankelele has a great write-up of this years first Skunkworks meeting held at the Google offices in Kenya. For more about Skunkworks, click here. There’s 3 points that resonate with me in Bankelele’s write-up:
1. The fear of sharing content online - or really just sharing information in Kenya. From [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Hits: Mar 5", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=467" });
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4:44
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NOTES BY LINDA
The meeting began by recognising the historical moment arrived at yesterday with the signing of the mediated peace deal through the assistance of the Kenya National Dialogue and reconciliation Team headed by H.E. Koffi Annan.
The meeting focused on the views of the Members towards the peace deal, urging them to discuss [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "CCP Meeting Update Feb 29", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=466" });
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1:57
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We are working on developing Ushahidi into a tool that can be applied to other crises and on improving its applicability in the Kenyan situation even after the power-sharing agreement. We’ve entered the Netsquared Mashup Challenge where we can stand to win up $20,000 for development. Show your support by voting [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Further development for Ushahidi", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=465" });
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10:14
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Details here.
Of course, there’s a lot of negatives like the effective absence of an opposition. But it gives the country some much-needed breathing space and I sincerely hope an opportunity for the hard work of rebuilding, healing, and creating a new political space to begin.
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8:51
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It is increasingly seeming like my worst fears will be confirmed, and the Annan mediation talks will become a long road to nowhere.
Frustrated as we are, I think it is important for us as Kenyans to keep trying to find ways to wrest the fate of our country from these two power-hungry individuals. [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Ways to help keep the peace in Kenya", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=463" });
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6:41
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Please let us introduce the Sundance Institute Theatre Program, one of America ’s leading programs supporting new writing for the stage. Based in Sundance, Utah (with offices in Los Angeles, California), as part of the Sundance Institute (www.sundance.org), its mission is to identify and assist emerging theatre artists, to reinvigorate the creative energies of established [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Opportunity for theatre artistes in East Africa", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=462" });
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1:43
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The CCP Technical team had a meeting yesterday, 21st February 2008 discussing whether CCP should continue to exist (unanimous agreement on this) and if so how it should do so.
Various decisions were reached in the meeting including:
o Morning forum- meetings will now be held once a week on Friday’s from [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "CCP Update Feb 22nd", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=461" });
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9:29
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Thanks everyone for sharing the 8-4-4 memories, you have me cracking up…and it’s a great reminder of what’s so fabulous about being Kenyan.
- Problems I’d like to have. Oh darling…do we really have to give up the Barcelonas…tehehe. Gosh I miss the self-indulgent aspects of living in the U.S. sometimes. I [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Hits: Feb 21", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=460" });
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5:55
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Apologies for the lack of posts, been dealing with personal stuff (read drama).
So I’ve been thinking it’s time for a little break since the news is slow pending the outcome of the Annan negotiations. There’s all sorts of people complaining about “imposed” solutions,and foreign intervention, and “Kenyan solutions“, but the last time [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Mental break: 8-4-4 memories", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=459" });
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6:39
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(Notes were taken by Shalini, I’ve taken the liberty of categorizing them).
THE BAD NEWS
* Rain means the situation in the camps has badly deteriorated. Flooding leads to disease, there is nowhere to sleep, kids having to scoop water out of tents. Standards truly appalling. Who’s responsibility is the camps? Govt is standing [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Concerned Citizens for Peace Update Feb 11", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=458" });
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9:07
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Fundraising event for Kenyans in NY: Kenyans in New York are organising a fundraiser aimed at helping the victims of the violence. We are fundraising specifically for Urgent Action fund which has a rapid response strategy and reaches out to victims of violence. Our focus is that the funds be used for [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Hits - Feb 11", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=457" });
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1:42
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BY STEPHEN PARTINGTON
Some friends say ‘Let us blog,
we’ll call it Kenyablog.’
They blog and blog and blog.
A member posts
‘This blog is tedious,
I’m gonna form a blog,
a blog called Lakeyblog
where Lakey types can blog.’
The rump of Kenyablog
rename themselves TheHighlandblog
and blog about the soil,
quite unaware that other Forestbloggers
formed another blog in which
the self-same soil is blogged about.
Now [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Diary 26 - Pearshaped Blogosphere", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=456" });
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11:49
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I had a uuum, visa mishap.
Relied on online site for visa information and didn’t notice that only “official” passport holders from Kenya as opposed to “ordinary” passport holders didn’t require a visa. I’ve been to Turkey several times when no visa was required so there was also a bit of ujuaji on [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Not off to Istanbul", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=454" });
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8:57
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[I’m off to Istanbul for a digital activism conference, will probably be offline till Friday. The post below has lots of opportunities where people can help, please contact those listed directly or send me an email - kenyanpundit-at-gmail if you want to help]
BY SHALINI
* A Kenya map, littered with [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Concerned Citizens for Peace Update Feb 6", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=453" });
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0:59
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- The ban on live media broadcasts has been lifted. I’m really finding hard to see what it achieved….wouldn’t it just have been easier to go after individual broadcasters who were inciting violence if that was the main concern?
- Haiya, I thought this story was just another nai-rumor when it was doing [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Quick Hits Feb 5", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=452" });
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3:52
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DIARY BY SIMIYU BARASA
When you find yourself talking with several guests of the morbid situation of your country during the wedding of one of your friends, you quickly realize there is something wrong with your country. When your National broadcasters show men being dragged out of public service vehicles and hacked to death by [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Diary 25 - The obituary of Simiyu Barasa, written by himself", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=451" });
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15:10
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- Some vivid on the ground reporting and pictures on the situation in Kenya.
- The humor might not work for everyone but I like this guy’s perspective on what’s going on in Kenya.
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5:24
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VUMA KENYA! Initiative is a new and exciting non-profit initiative that is the brain-child of a group of talented, resourceful and socially connected young professional Kenyans based in the US who have decided to pool their resources together in response to the recent post-election violence following the disputed December 27th Kenyan General Elections, to rally [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Support Vuma Kenya", url: "http://www.kenyanpundit.com/?p=449" });
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5:32
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I’M POSTING THIS SUMMARY WRITTEN BY SHALINI - THINKS IT GIVES A GOOD SENSE OF INITIATIVES BEING UNDERTAKEN BY THOSE LOOKING FOR A THIRD WAY AS WELL AS DISTURBING REPORTS FROM THE GROUND E.G. OF PATIENTS BEING DISCRIMINATED AGAINST.
General update
* The night vigil went off successfully. About 250 people attended, [...]
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5:22
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I’ve deleted a comment made by someone about the hate speech on Mashada, not because I disagree with the concerns raised but because I know the links included would have been bait for guys to respond with their own hateful comments.
I have recently had a conversation with David about the kinds of inciteful and [...]
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13:44
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First, a couple of people responded to my rant on the coverage by Kenyan journalists by making a point that I should have acknowledged - beyond the government clamp down, the journalists are also inhibited by the positions taken by whoever owns the media houses, there are reports of journalists already being fired for taking [...]
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3:34
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DIARY WRITTEN BY A MUDACHI
Part of the Kenya I want is a Kenya where politicians will
not run rough shod over the law & the will of the people to serve
their own ends. Part of the Kenya I want is a Kenya where my
consititutional RIGHT to elect my representatives in the Government is
not stolen away from [...]
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3:30
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DIARY WRITTEN BY RAY N.
I refuse to fight for so-called leaders who clearly care nothing about me, the common mwananchi. As we speak, they’ve already been sworn into parliament, which guarantees that they are on their way to becoming Kenyan millionaires (at our expense). In effect, we the voters, put them in [...]
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8:14
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One thing that has really been bothering me is lately is how the Kenyan media has just rolled over and played dead during this whole crisis. No contextual reporting, no investigative journalism, not even daring to reprint the chronicle of events that has been compiled by Kenyan election observers…or is my perspective very [...]
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4:51
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Ushahidi now has a local number where you can SMS incidents of violence or report on peace efforts. The number is 6007 (normal SMS costs apply).
Please help us publicize this number locally - it’s part of our effort to make sure that we are reaching as many people as possible on the [...]
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15:30
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BY Kenyans for Peace with Truth and Justice (KPTJ)
Kenyan Elections Observers’ Log: December 29-30, 2007
The following account is drawn from the statements of four of the five domestic election observers1 allowed into the verification process the Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) afforded political party representatives the night before the announcement of the supposed results [...]
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15:26
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BY KENYANS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
Friday January 18, 2007
Nairobi, Kenya
Kenya is today on the brink of disintegration. At least 500 people have been killed, 6,100 have fled into exile in Uganda and another 250,000 plus are living as internally displaced persons in their own country.
This is not the end of this sad chapter [...]
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10:15
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IMG_1005
Originally uploaded by ateka.
For the fellow mama’s - a mummy post.
I didn’t coordinate the “b” block. For real.
She’s eleven months next week. Cruising along furniture now and still very desperate to walk, but balance not there. We’re both bored of baby food so I think she starts eating more [...]
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1:38
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I’m sure you all know by now that Parliament has been prorogued. No word on when it will resume. At the rate Kibaki is going…probably not any time soon in order to kill ODM’s perceived momentum within Parliament.
On to the links:
- Get Africa right dammit (OK, those [...]
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15:16
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DIARY BY MX
1. i have been in kenya since early september 2007. i am finding it a tad bit intellectually dishonest when people here express shock at the aftermath of saturday bloody saturday (december 29th, 2007). i find their expressions a bit rich in that the one thing i quickly realized when i [...]
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15:10
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BY DAUD
The more things change, the more the stay the same.
My take on the situation will be short.I found this interesting video on you tube. It was on Tom Mboya’s death. I am struck by the differences
and the similarities to the situation today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NghXDf2tZo
Most striking, is the much bandied about and simplistic ‘Luo vs Kikuyu’ Kenyan [...]
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7:07
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Marsgroup Kenya should be showing live clips every 15 minutes. Site is a bit slow so be patient.
Man, I wish I could be liveblogging this.
Live broadcasting of Parliament should be a permanent thing. Trying to get MPs to vote that in is another matter altogether. A
From a skype [...]
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4:58
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By MARIPOSA NEGRA
I left Kenya when i was 24 years, 10 month and some days old. With me were two suitcases stuffed with books and unsuitable clothing for the upcoming winter and in the midst of the hot, tuesday afternoon, my heart was burdened by the choice I feel I had to take.
I was tired [...]
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4:54
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By BILLY OWINO
This will be long so brace yourself! As I write this, I have tears welling in my eyes once more. I thought I was through with that until I reported back to the office today after a 3 weeks break. I live and work in Khartoum, Sudan and every single person I have [...]
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4:34
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By Allan Kirui
I have been reading your blog and other and I must admit, like many others, it is a much better source of information than the actual news pages! Thank you!!
Personally, I was too young (or perhaps also too naïve) in the Moi era to know whether he rigged himself in, or won [...]
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3:52
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Written by Ben Kiilu (aka BigBen)
Kibaki, the man who many believe is illegally in office as the president of Kenya has offered to form a government of national unity. Not a surprising turn of events. Many will urgue; yes, there goes a true leader, trying to find a solution to save our motherland. While others [...]
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11:27
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Number 1, Ushahidi is already getting good traffic since it’s launch and already gone through a number of updates. Hash, has put up a great post highlighting the changes. Keep spreading the word and encouraging people to submit stories.
Number 2, a number of people responded to my rant about Kibaki’s appointment of [...]
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3:16
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By Kui
I have never found it so hard to wrap my mind around the phrase ‘Happy New Year’ before. The sun is shining outside my window. I am on my way back to the rest of my life overseas. I am glad to be alive. But somehow, in another locality, the locality where my [...]
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From: Kenyan Pundit
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By Nits
he call for immediate new elections as a way forward out of the current crisis is not a feasible solution. Elections in order to be credible to all sides must be free, fair, and transparent. This is not possible given the current state of Kenya. The last estimate of displaced people is now nearly [...]
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