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You have to watch this video. The Nairobi City Council apparently has a list of houses that are built on illegal road structures, which they say have to come down, but if this is how they are going to “attack” this problem, then they are down right crazy! They almost demolished this family’s house, [...]
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Once again, I want to get back to this topic about the coming undersea fiber optic cable that is supposed to finally deliver high speed internet services to the East African shoreline. White African has a good summary post on this cable line and I got this image from his blog. The white [...]
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I was watching Pamela Jelimo’s win online (because I can never figure out what time these events are happening on tv). Anyway, Jelimo just killed it and she’s only 18! Maybe one day someone will figure out what these Kalenjins are drinking and they’ll package it and sell it to future runners. Is [...]
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Have you guys seen this video? The slaughter houses in Dagoretti were closed for failing to comply with health codes and of course, Beth Mugo isn’t happy about it because these are her constituents. So, here she is arguing with the head of NEMA about why he was wrong and the guy stands his [...]
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I wrote a post last year on Kencall after someone left a comment here about them not paying their employee’s. Anyway, as I was cleaning out my spam, I noticed that people were still continuing to comment on that post and they’re providing quite a bit of insider information.
hmmmm…apparently, people don’t seem to like [...]
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The Nation has an interesting article on this new company that is trying to enter the Kenyan beer market and succeed where Castle did not by attempting to compete with EABL.
What I found interesting about this article is that while EABL gets it’s barley from local farmers, this new company is going to import it’s [...]
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We’ve often heard of NRI’s (non-resident Indians) - These are Indians who who left their country in the 60’s and 70’s when the economy in India was closed and in the doldrums. However, as the years went by, this group began to thrive and they became an important link between India and the west, [...]
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Uhuru gets tripped up here when he is asked about his family’s massive land holdings (how can you defend theft?). He gets tripped up again when he is asked about Mugabe. How can you defend Mugabe?
Uhuru says land reform is not about a person. I don’t know what he meant by that. In [...]
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What a pathetic performance by Stephen Sarkur of hardtalk. I’m glad Uhuru Kenyatta corrected him when he said the following: “that the greatest violence was perpetrated by the Mungiki militia”! WTF? half a million Kikuyu’s were displaced from their homes in two days and this idiot Sarkur (or whatever the hell his name is) [...]
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I wasn’t going to write a piece on these high school students in Kenya behaving like hooligans, but this video caught my attention because now the girls are behaving badly. They even torched a school. Whaaaat? Women don’t tend to behave like this, so this suggests that something very wrong is taking place [...]
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I’ve been observing this war of the roses feud between William “I”m gonna eat your mama” Ntimama and William “will-kill router”. Isn’t this an interesting feud? I must say that I am surprised that no reporter in Kenya has approached Ntimama and asked him what he meant when he delivered that harrowing statement. [...]
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Is anyone surprised that there is an ongoing military shake-up taking place? you shouldn’t be because we talked about this extensively during last years election violence. Like I said numerous times (& I got a lot of flack for saying it) - Kibaki has got to get rid of the Kalenjins in the army before [...]
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Okay, so, I was trying to get through this article in BD Africa, but I just couldn’t make sense of it. Hello? Did someone forget to edit again? Can somebody here read the above article and tell me what the hell the writer is trying to say?
Anyway, I want to move on to [...]
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Someone was telling me about this new autobiography by Peter Kuguru. He is the founder of Softa, the soda company in Kenya that gave Coca-Cola a run for it’s money. He’s written an autobiography about his life and about his experiences as an entrepreneur in Kenya.
I haven’t read the book yet. However, [...]
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It looks like Business Daily Africa is going to start charging it’s on-line customers to read some of their articles. In doing this, they are going against the current trend in on-line journalism where everything is becoming free. Heck, even the Wall Street Journal is heading towards making all the content on their site [...]
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Well, Well, looks like Otieno Kajwang has just had a relapse. He’s gone back to his bad habits (Patel? You likey workey?).
Kajwang should never have been in the cabinet especially after he got disbarred for stealing a clients reward money and then refusing to pay it back!! This man is a crook.
Now, Kajwang is [...]
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I’ve had long arguments with my friends about the role of corruption in propping up many wealthy business owners in Kenya. Some of my friends believe that they are many successful business people in Kenya who I’m just not willing to give credit for who have achieved their wealth through sheer genius and hard [...]
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Well, Kimunya did himself in. He really did. He got cocky and he didn’t think he’d get caught. I don’t understand why he would even attempt to do something like this at a time when 50% of the country is still pissed off about the election results and then, not expect to [...]
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Here is Raila Odinga calling for the resignation of the following people: The minister of finance, the CBK governor and the head of Kenya’s Intelligence unit, the NSIS. Um….Does anyone honestly believe that Kibaki is going to fire some of the most powerful men in the country? and even if Kibaki did, they’d [...]
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If there is one civil servant in Kenya whose job is entirely and completely irrelevant, it is that of the Attorney General. Can somebody please tell me what good Amos Wako has ever done for the country? There is no scandal he has ever prevented, there is no important prosecution he has ever [...]
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What can I say? The Grand Regency Larceny hotel has been sold for 2 Billion shillings and Orengo was caught unawares. Poor Orengo. Did he actually believe the grand coalition illusion was real? (Did Ghosts buy this hotel?)
Like I’ve said before, Kibaki is now a dictator and at the presidential and executive level, [...]
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I want to get back to this issue of call centers in Kenya because I believe it’s still a virgin industry and one that has potential for growth. (also, I just can’t spend time talking about Safaricom shares. I mean, how many ways can you talk about whether a stock price is going [...]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXzoroC5Wdc
Forward this video to minute 1:00.
I’ was watching this video and I was astounded. If Raila Odinga (as much as I dislike him) is the prime minister and if he has a security detail supplied to him from Kenya’s elite Reece squad, his security men should have the right to accompany him everywhere he [...]
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This company continues to amaze. The IPO raised $800 million dollars. That’s a whole lot of mucha-cha.
So, what do you think? Who were the biggest winners and who do you think were the biggest losers?
I’ll try and answer my own questions:
Biggest Winners:
The brokers and the millions of dollars in fee’s that they’ll collect from this [...]
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Merali’s two companies have issued profit warnings. He is blaming it on post-election violence, but why do I think it’s more than that? The CEO of his Sameer Group of companies has effectively been fired and because Merali is an astute businessman, he quickly replaced him with another Kikuyu.
Now, I don’t want people here to [...]
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I have often wondered whether Raila Odinga has a never ending political curse hanging around his head. The idea that Kibaki will release suspects responsible for the murder, rape and burning of people’s homes is simply crazy.
I don’t know how others are viewing this amnesty issue, but this is my reading of it:
Raila Odinga aligned [...]
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Every time Samuel “Jesus help me” Kivuitu opens his mouth, I burst out laughing. I’m sorry, I can’t help it.
I don’t know how I forgot to add him to my “funny man’s” list. This poor man was caught between a rock and a hard place. On one side was Michuki threatening him with GSU guards [...]
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I don’t understand why people are giving James Orengo a hard time about this new land policy that he is trying to enact. I think it actually has a basis in law and it relates to this concept called “adverse posssession”, which essentially states that the state or even private individuals, do have the right [...]
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“A ruling political party cannot also be in the opposition. You are either in Government or out of Government. The role of the backbench is to check the front bench,’’ said Raila in an interview with KTN.
Raila Odinga is truly an amazing specimen. I wonder if he felt the same way when he was [...]
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I must say, BDAfrica is becoming one of my favorite reads (who edits that newspaper? they deserve a big clap for doing a good job with their reporting).
So, they have another interesting story about this guy called John Kiarie who is suing Dyer & Blair, claiming that they did not give him a return on [...]
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I’m becoming increasingly curious about this guy Patrick Gakiavih, the owner/founder of Nyagan’ya Nyagah Stock-”biters”. The Nation has an interesting story about where he ”invested” all that stolen money: He loves his hometown of Embu because he bought a lot of land there.
According to the Nation article, he stole a total of about Ksh. 885 million or the [...]
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Someone just emailed me this article that appeared in the British Magazine, the Spectator. The article is written by a Kenyan based journalist name Aidan Hartley. The article begins like this:
” I want to say Kenya is a victim of negative press. Shady characters called bloggers are nicknaming the President’s new Peace cabinet of ministers [...]
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This is an interview that Will-Kill Router gave on Kenya’s looming food crisis. He seems to have some of his facts memorized (x amount of maize was planted, x amounted is needed, etc, etc) - but at the end of the day, Africa’s inability to achieve food security is mainly due to it’s inability to [...]
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The Nation and the Standard finally have similar stories on the procession of this grand coalition illusion. From what I read, they’re basically going to try and get along and blah, blah, blah…..
The roles however, about who is number one or number two (is it Kibaki or Raila?) are still left undefined. And you [...]
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I’m intrigued by this publicly listed company mainly because of it’s owners/founders. I read somewhere that the Somen’s are Israeli Jews and their father immigrated to Kenya in the 1960’s or 1970’s (he apparently owns the Fairview Hotel). Anyway, his sons are now running this company called (Access Kenya).
I looked at their website and it [...]
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I am in the process of compiling a list of funny men (public figures who, when they open their mouths, leave me in stitches). So far, the following individuals have made my list:
Kalembe Ndile
Kamlesh Pattni
Otieno Kajwaaaaaaang
And now, I’m going to have to add the one and only, Francis Atwoli (this man may actually walk away [...]
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I was having a short, but interesting conversation with someone late last night and the topic of Equity Banks’ rapid rise to the top came up (apparently, it now holds 41% of all bank accounts in the country).
Anyway, during this short conversation, this guy told me that he attended a speech given by Equity’s MD at the Harvard [...]
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My Dear Kenyans:
The government does not have enough money to support it’s own oink, hiccup, oink. Um..excuse me for a minute. This picture is distracting me. Is this pig eating a chicken or is it eating a piece of itself?
What was I saying earlier? Ah yes, the government has no money to support it’s own [...]
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I am continually amused by how much press time the U.S. ambassador to Kenya is given because here in America, he is really a nobody. If you asked any American to name the U.S. ambassador to Kenya, they would think you were high on something.
The president of the United States offers ambassadorial appointments to many [...]
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Fast forward the video below to minute 2:30. Saitoti walks over to Raila and tells him that he will get to introduce Kalonzo and then Kalonzo {as the VP} will get to introduce the president. Well, Raila didn’t like this at all because he thinks he has more seniority than Kalonzo and when [...]
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If you listened to some of these Kalenjins, you’d think they were the only tribal group in Kenya that has had land stolen from them. You’d also think they were the only tribe in Kenya that is suffering economically. I was watching the video below and could not believe what I was hearing. Kalenjin MP’s [...]
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It appears like there’s been another incident with Kenya Airways. This time they just over-shot the runway at Entebbe. I had a piece on the crash in Cameron and I said then that if Kenya Airways had another fatal accident, it would be a public relations disaster for them. It hasn’t happened yet, [...]
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The Nation finally has an article on the intelligence failure that preceded this election violence. We’ve been talking about the NSIS here for months now (I’m surprised it took the Nation this long to write an article on the NSIS). The article points out what two commentators said here two days ago: That [...]
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The Standard newspaper is really becoming a joke in terms of it’s blatant ass kissing of Raila Odinga. I mean, please, please, please…
As I’m checking the headlines I see this title: “Raila Bounces Back”. Huh?
Wait. It gets worse. Look at this quote from the straaaange article above: “Raila, the Orange Democratic Movement [...]
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There’s an interesting article in BD Africa about Kenya finally moving towards opening up a commodities exchange where farmers and others (I presume) will eventually be able to trade agricultural commodities just as they trade Safaricom shares.
I’ve written articles about this before and wondered why an agricultural country like Kenya did not have an exchange [...]
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The Mars group has studied the financial obligations that will come with this new bloated government and they’ve determined that 80% of Kenya’s national budget will go into buying more mercedez benz’s and range rovers for these greedy, greedy, politicians. Yes, my friends, the cabinet will now cost the Kenyan taxpayer $1 billion [...]
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Can somebody email Michael Gichangi (the head of the NSIS) and tell him to wake up. A new year has dawned and we are three months into it.
The government is now admitting to being outwitted by Mungiki. The pattern of intelligence failures can no longer be ignored. Witness:
The Sabaot Land Defense Force was operating long [...]
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So, I’m reading a couple of articles in the Standard about what appears to be a coming liquidity crunch with the banks and with the government. In other words, they appear to be running low on hard, cold cash (or at least that’s what I deduced from reading this article here). I’ve said before that [...]
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I was trying to read the list of all the newly appointed ministers, but I got tired. Even the Nation and Standard were having a hard time listing them all, ending their sentences with phrases like, “….and others”. It makes no sense to me. I mean, ministry of northern Kenya development? [...]
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Someone ought to give Kamlesh Pattni his own reality show. This man is a total comedian and why do these Indians who’ve been born and raised in Kenya sound like they just flew in from Kolkata?
Anyway, why is the government getting into the hotel business? And that Central Bank Governor is one arrogant man. [...]
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Well, I guess there’s no surprise here that the talks have collapsed. Like I said in a previous piece, Mutula Kilonzo and Martha Karua are very smart lawyers. They simply outwitted James Orengo when it came to drafting that agreement.
Isn’t that the first thing they teach you in a contracts class? never, ever, write generalized contracts [...]
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I know Na-jihadi Bawawa is threatening more violence against the Kikuyu’s, but after watching this news clip of what the army is doing in Mt. Elgon, the so called warriors should not heed Najib “Mullah Omar’s” advice. Look at this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppyDws4vBc0
I was waiting for the cabinet list to be announced, but it appears that [...]
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Well, well….looks like ODM’s self-grown insurgent has just issued another Fatwah. He is now threatening a new round of violence if his “peeps” don’t get the hook up on the crook up. From the Nation:
“We are giving a warning that if this issue is not addressed properly, we risk the eruption of a new round [...]
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That’s what I’m experiencing right now. I was trying to listen to the analysis of his speech last night, but after about 5 minutes, I switched off all the news channels. I couldn’t take it.
I heard someone say that it was the: “greatest political speech on race in his lifetime”! eh? Obama did what he always does; [...]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntvMoxb3iiU
Ruto has to be feeling “dissed”. I don’t care what he says publicly, his face is beguiled with disappointment and you can see it (he believes he deserved the deputy PM job because he believes he did more to secure ODM’s win than Mudavadi). It was amusing to see all these politicians accusing Kalonzo of being [...]
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I guess there’s going to be an annoucement tomorrow by Kimunya on the modalities of this IPO. The investment banks who get this business are going to be smiling all the way to Tahiti when they start adding up their humongous fee’s from this transaction (These brokers are making a killing). If this article [...]
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So, I’m reading this piece in the Nation where Mr. Matharau Muthaura is essentially telling Mr. Ojinga Odinga that his Executive Prime Ministerial position is basically useless. According to Muthaura: “The PM will come in handy in setting up inter-ministerial committees, following up on policy, sometimes developing the policy and ensuring ministries are kept in [...]
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I’ve been trying to read pieces about the land issue in Kenya because it’s at the heart of the countries continuos violence and I must say, that the more I read and the more I learn, the more I’m beginning to realize that that Kalenjin elders have no clue about the history of their so [...]
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Here is a short (30 minute) documentary about the genesis and growth of the violence. It is somewhat outdated because it was made before this “peace” deal was signed, but the stories from the people caught up in it are still interesting (especially the claim by a Kikuyu woman in the rift valley who [...]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TgWPaX-k7k
I must say, this man has an amazing knack: He can lie with a straight face (is there a school one can attend where they teach you how to do that?).
I’d like us to come up with names that would best describe William Ruto. I suggest Will-kill Ruto. Do you have any other [...]
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I haven’t been able to catch all the details, but from what I’ve heard, it looks like more bloated government is coming. I pity the taxpayers of Kenya.
A president
An executive prime minister
A Vice President
2 deputy prime ministers
More ministries coming (they all have to eat)
The worst, worst thing here is that none of these prime ministers [...]
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I can’t keep up with ODM’s continuous flip flopping. According to the BBC, they have now called off the planned mass protests that were to take place this Thursday.
I think Kenyans are tired of the hooliganism and violence. When all is said and done, Raila Odinga should look back on history and connect his falling [...]
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As predicted, the Annan negotiations have pretty much collapsed. Annan is fed up and exhausted and I’m glad he’s finally realized that his time is being wasted (the guy isn’t getting paid for this. Why would he put up with it when he can be making $50,000 dollars a pop giving speeches around [...]
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Looks like Mr. Balalaaaa has been watching his boyhood pirate movies. He’s threatening to turn central province into an island like Lesotho:
“We are pressurised by our people, if the negotiations are not working, then we change the terms of reference of the negotiations to discuss boundaries then we reduce them to an Island like [...]
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I said here a month ago that the Kalenjins who planned the violence in the rift valley were going to pay a price for their actions. You can’t kill 1000 people, displace half a million of them and get away with it. Now, it appears like the retaliation has begun with the arrest [...]
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There’s an interesting profile on Barack Obama in this month’s Vanity Fair Magazine. Check it out here.
The question for me is, can he beat John Mccain in November. I’m rarely if ever inspired by politicians speeches. As a voter, I just want my side to win. And, and, and…..
I’m not sure if he can beat [...]
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Finally, some news is beginning to trickle out about what ODM is looking for in it’s talks with the government. There’s no way in hell Kibaki is going to agree to these stipulations, which are:
An Executive Prime Minister who’d be the head of government and share power with the president
A two-year period to review [...]
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There’s nothing major happening on the ground in Kenya at the moment. I know Condoleeza Rice was there on Monday, but I doubt much will come from her trip. These guys (Bush et al.) are leaving office in one year’s time and they are downright exhausted. How do I know this? I’ve read about 8 [...]
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This is an old article I posted a while ago, but I am re-posting it here again because I think it underscores why Kenya has become such an important link to the west’s war on terror and why America & Britain cannot afford for it to descend into chaos. The contents of this post are [...]
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This is the second part of the article I received: Again, come to your own conclusions about your own country.
Observers of the Kenya scene always have preferred to emphasise the positive over the negative. After all, Kenya’s first multi-party election in 2002 was peaceful. The expanded political freedoms of speech, press, and association are a [...]
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This article was forwarded to me. It’s got a lot of historical information on the genesis of the land problem in Kenya, which I don’t think a lot of people know about. So, look at it as an opportunity to brush up on your knowledge of Kenya’s history.
On the night of 13 August [...]
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I just read this piece from Kenyanpundit:
“Bishop report from Bungoma – Kalenjin in the area are not just killing, but are mutilating their victims, cutting legs, arms, private parts, then beheading Luyha and Kikuyu. They are dying in painful de-humanised way. This is being funded by a parliamentarian, who is currently in the peace talks. [...]
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I’m looking for Koffi Annan. He’s supposed to be hiding at a “secret” location, working on a “secret” deal that will deliver I don’t know what, to I don’t know who.
I’ve never understood Koffi Annan. I view him as an uncreative bureaucrat who has spent his entire career at an organization that has largely [...]
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I was perusing the Standard and came across this story on yet another stock broker that is engaging in funny business (same problem, different name). This time it’s Nyaganya Nyagah Stock Brokers who, according to the Standard: “…. are being investigated by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) over misappropriation of clients’ money and unauthorised sale [...]
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I was trying to figure out why Michuki keeps telling Kibaki to give him the ministry of roads. Afterall, isn’t the ministry of internal security a more powerful post? A friend of mine suggested that maybe Michuki had been demoted because he may be too “polarizing” . Kibaki and Michuki are comrades in arms (together [...]
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Who’s this guy Mohammed Adow? I know he’s Somali, but I’m not sure if he grew up in Kenya or Somalia. Anyway, he’s done a good job with his reporting on kenya.
How in God’s name do you move up financially in Kenya? There’s virtually no upward mobility!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQu4Z3GpxF0
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I was watching a BBC interview last night and they had Kalonzo on to talk about what was happening in Kenya. I must say, I’m not impressed by him. I wasn’t impressed by him during his campaign either, but I ignored it since I never thought he’d end up being the vice-president. However, now that [...]
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Imanyara says the first lady smacked him. I believe him. Afterall, she has done it before. However, I am beginning to feel sorry for this woman. She clearly has some kind of mental illness and that must be difficult to deal with for a number of reasons.
First, the complexities of mental illness is not appreciated [...]
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I continue to wonder why Kibaki is pretending to go along with these Annan hot talks. I suppose it’s because he didn’t want to embarrass President Kufuor? And now he doesn’t want to embarrass Kofi? (I had to re-read this sentence because so manyGhanian names begin with the letter “K” & I didn’t want to [...]
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The death of these two MP’s has once again brought up this issue of political assassinations. While the death of Mellitsus Were remains a mystery, the circumstances surrounding the murder of David Kimutai appear to be related to a love triangle gone bad.
People like Moi and Kenyatta were able to carry out their assassinations, without [...]
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This is absolutely organized. What are these Kalenjins trying to do? Kill all 4 million Kenyans who voted for Kibaki? If they keep doing this, people are going to retaliate. This is simple human nature.
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70 people were killed over the weekened and I can no longer tell if the violence has remained at the same level that it was, if it’s gotten worse or if it’s stabilizing. What do you think?
All kinds of weapons are being used to kill - primarily the machete and these poisonous arrows. It’s a [...]
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So, Ban-Ki Moon is on his way to Kenya. Frump, frump. I honestly don’t know why the United Nations continues to exist. What is it they do again?? The truth of the matter is, the power of the UN lies with the five permanent members of the security council, who are:
The [...]
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So, I’m watching this video and I see Raila at the home of the Libyan Ambassador to Kenya (forward video to minute 1:31). Why is Raila so close to the Libyans? This is a rhetorical question because the answer is obvious: It’s all about the money.
However, I want to talk about why this alliance is [...]
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A second MP has been shot. This time, the murder is being attributed to a lovers spat. He was having an affair with a policeman’s wife and according to the New York Times: “Mr. Too was driving in his car with a female police officer whose boyfriend was also a police officer. The boyfriend drove [...]
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I’m always interested in learning about different cultures and I came upon this video of Kalenjin “Morans”. If the video hadn’t specified that they were Kalenjins, I would have assumed they were Maasai’s. I don’t know what year this video was taken, but it must have been a while ago because only Maasai’s [...]
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I have said before that I did not think Koffi Annan would achieve anything and I will stick to that prediction. Now, the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa has declared what went on in the rift valley this way:
“Ms Frazer described the forced removal of members of Mr Kibaki’s Kikuyu tribe, which she [...]
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Look at them smiling with each other in their freshly pressed suits and full stomachs!
I was particularly perturbed when I saw William Ruto shaking hands with Kibaki and smiling with Kalonzo (does Ruto know what is going to happen to him?)
**Article with great commentary (How Kenya Lost it’s way)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWhur2W4v2Y
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From Reuters:
“It starts with five deaths, then 10, then 50, shortly it grows to 100, then it goes to thousands … By the time you realise, it has a dimension that is wiping out life in villages and communities and is getting out of control and the whole political situation is in a mess.” (Bring [...]
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A guy by the name of Mugabe Were. I’d never heard of him before (had you?). Dandora is part of his constituency and they’re now saying it’s also a stronghold of the Mungiki sect, but Embakasi has a lot of dangerous neighborhoods (Kayole, Mukuru kwa Njenga, Kariobangi)
Mugabe Were beat David Mwenje in the [...]
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What’s happening in Nakuru and Naivasha is exactly what happened in 1992 and 1997 with the tribal clashes. The Kikuyu are exacting revenge against the Kalenjin and some Luo’s. This is human nature and it was bound to happen. The difference in ‘92 and ‘97 is that not that many people were displaced and the attacks [...]
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As I’ve been thinking about Kenya these past few months, one thing has become clear to me and perhaps to all of you: At the heart of the problem is the question of extreme poverty. Regardless of what side you are taking in the midst of this political crisis, one thing is clear: They are [...]
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I don’t want to talk about Koffi Annan’s trip because nothing will come of it and what more evidence is there of this than the words of Kibaki and Raila right after their press conference.
From Kibaki: “As the duly elected president, etc, etc……(these guys are not going to negotiate with Raila).
From Raila: “Mr Odinga said the [...]
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I used to admire Anyang Nyongo, but ever since he decided to become Raila’s houseboy his independent thoughts have been pushed aside in favor of Raila’s flip flopping radicalism and recklessness. I’m watching this video (fast forward to minute 1:00) and I can’t believe what I’m hearing coming out of Nyongo’s mouth - that the [...]
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“Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive” - William F. Buckley
I know the idealists are still talking about things like peace and justice and they’re all waiting for Kibaki to resign and all that, but I am going to move on from these pie in sky ideals because I’ve pretty [...]
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Someone sent me an email about a confidential memo that ODM had written way back in September. I can’t vouch for the document’s authenticity, so I will simply post it here and let you make up your own minds.
I will first copy the statement accompanying the email and the ODM Memo will be attached at the [...]
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I had a post earlier (”The Humanitarian Crisis in Darfur”) where I mentioned the Kikuyu/Kamba alliance that was now forming in the army. I also said Kalonzo Musyoka knew exactly what was going on and that was why he was in with Kibaki. The idealists came out of their caves and called me [...]
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I was watching this guy William Ruto throughout the campaign and thinking that there was something very eery about him. There he was talking about change and human rights as if nobody in the country knew what his background was. So, who is William Ruto? Let’s see:
Before 1992, Ruto used to idle around the Hilton [...]
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2uUKy7sOCc
I was watching this video and seeing all these young men and wondering why they’re couldn’t arm themselves and fight back (and this is not an evil statement because people who are being attacked have every right to defend themselves). The hooligans and thugs are armed with simple rungus and pangas, why couldn’t they fight [...]
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Something is happening with the kalenjins in the rift valley. They’re anger is coming from somewhere and they’re violence is not spontaneous. I know Raila Odinga wants people to believe that (& maybe in Kisumu it was spontaneous, but in the rift valley, someone is funding and organizing these Kalenjin warriors).
I think these Kalenjins have [...]
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I admire many of the things Museveni has done in reviving and stabilizing Uganda. Now, of course, the west is pressuring him to step down and asking him to give democracy a chance, but Museveni’s arguments against imposing fast paced democracy in Africa are quiet right.
Museveni has argued that Africa is still too poor [...]
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Even if these people believed Kibaki rigged himself in, there is no excuse for this kind of behavior.
Click on the link and watch this video:
After seeing this, I want Michuki to fight them till the end and bring them down.
I’m tired of reading all these Kenyan blogs where people are intellectualizing the problem. (”Pray for [...]
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We have to talk about the impact that this violence will have on the overrall economy (I’m sorry, this is not a blog for idealists. At the end of the day, people have to eat and for many, if they don’t work and they don’t get paid, they won’t eat).
It now looks like the violence [...]
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Has anyone here ever worked for an NGO in Africa? Isn’t it your job to prepare for disasters at all times? I’m saying this because I”m watching this video and wondering why the red cross official is saying he can’t fly food and other necessities out to the people stuck in Burnt Forest (he’s saying [...]
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I just heard him on the BBC trying to compare the situation in Kenya to the genocide in Rwanda. Please, please, please!
Kenya is not Rwanda. Kenya has a well educated middle class, Rwanda did not have this. Kenya has a high literacy rate, currently standing at about 75%, Rwanda did not have this [...]
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The first crazy, Raila sits in his mansion in Karen and lets those poor jobless men in Kibera take the bullets on his behalf (ati “we will not be intimidated”! Really Raila? why don’t you join those young men on the streets then?)
The second crazy is Michuki. He too sits in his mansion in [...]
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Do these people who are rioting actually believe that they’ll be able to defeat the security forces with their machete’s and wooden sticks? it’s a losing battle and Odinga needs to make another appeal for calm. Let him take his case to court because now I am reading that they were irregularities with the vote [...]
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I said before that I view Michuki as a cold, heartless man (yes, he’s brought a level of law and order to the matatu business and perhaps he’s even dealt with the mungiki menace, but at what cost?
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First, let’s begin with the most important newspaper in America, The NYT:
“At the sound of the copter blades, a thousand Masai tribesmen crane their necks upward. It is as if their savior is dropping from the sky. Railaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!” they yell. The tribesmen turn into a stampede, hollering and poking their gnarled wooden clubs in [...]
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I subscribe to Vanity Fair and I’ve noticed that they very often have articles on Kenya (it seems like every other month). If it’s not a full fledged article, it will usually be a blurb in the travel section.
As I’m flipping through this months magazine, I notice this blurb by a travel writer called [...]
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I predicted Kibaki would win, but they’re these things called polls that are getting in the way of my prediction. I tend to believe polls because they are generally right. I have no reason to believe that the polls in Kenya are being manipulated (why do people believe that?).
So, what’s happening to Kibaki (if these [...]
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I did a mini-analysis of Kenya’s most popular websites and it was quite interesting to see where the trend is moving. The Nation and Standard are the highest, with both sites getting about 45,000 hits a day, but their numbers are down for the month and for the year (Kenya’s most popular websites).
However, the [...]
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A lot of you have probably seen this video.
Here is Moi telling his Kalenjin peps to vote for Kibaki because if Raila becomes president, he will implement the Ndungu Report and go after the wealth of the Kenyatta and Moi families. Therefore, he wants these obviously poor villagers to use the power of their [...]
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I’m beginning to believe that Anyang Nyong’oh.oh.oh can quote (without notes), every line in every{passed} and soon to be passed parliamentary act. Every time I hear him give an interview, I wonder how much time he spends going over all that mind-numbingly boring minutae (“section 25 (a) of the consenus of understanding in the [...]
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Kengen wants to raise money. They haven’t decided which route to go: IPO {can they do that? or the bond market?}. They are looking for advice (Light me up). Would you like to help them out? what do you think is better?
A little basics on what raising money via the bond market means: [...]
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I was reading this story in the Nation on the president’s declaration to increase sugar prices by Ksh 300 per tonne. (O’Kubusu: How $$weet do you like your $ugar?).
I understand the political objective (Kibaki is pandering to votes from western province just in time for the election). What I can’t figure out is [...]
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From the Standard:
“Former President Daniel arap Moi has reiterated his support for President Kibaki moments after he named his party of choice for the General Election”.
Then of course Moi goes on to say that Kibaki is the only non-tribal leader while stating (concurrently) that he doesn’t want his own tribal outfit (the Kalenjins) to [...]
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There. I’ve said it.
Raila hasn’t given the people a compelling reason why Kibaki shouldn’t be voted back into office.
At the end of the day, the Kibaki administration has done a fairly competent job(Namely, they haven’t screwed up the economy and they’ve left businesses alone to do their thing) — so, why should Kibaki be voted [...]
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I’ve been scanning the sports sections of the Kenyan Dailies and have noticed just how thoroughly the Kalenjin runners are dominating world running competitions. It’s not even close; And every year, a new crop of world class runners emerges from the hills of Eldoret and Baringo. It’s actually quite amusing because every marathon year [...]
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I was talking to a doctor yesterday and she was telling me about this specialized hospital that they are in the process of building. They’ve already received a $10 million dollar grant from the African Development Bank and they’re looking to raise an additional 1.2 billion Ksh (which I think they’ll be able do).
Anyway, [...]
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You had the money, the time, or the whatever…..
Many, many people have many, many, ideas, but little time or no money with which to execute those idea’s. However, that doesn’t and shouldn’t stop us from talking about them (since everything does begin with a simple idea).
So, having said that, what business ideas’ have you [...]
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It’s always stunning to me how these old Kenyan politicians continue to underestimate the power of the internet, especially the power it holds in terms of the free flow of information around the world. When will these oldies get it? The internet has killed censorship (even the Chinese government is having a hard time controlling [...]
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Reading the Nation’s business section can be trying sometimes. Witness the following headline:
“Safaricom advisor to earn 5 cents pay”!
But they don’t stop there:
“Dyer & Blair will partner with Morgan Stanley & Co International PLC, Faida Securities, Ashbhu Securities Limited and Dyer & Blair Investment Bank in a deal where they will be expecting a [...]
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Last night I was on the phone with a customer service rep from Direct-tv. I was trying to order the international sports channel, Setanta. After my call went through, I was connected to some African-American rep who was clearly based in the south (based on the accent I detected). Anyway, the following is [...]
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I was browsing through the Standard’s business section and I came upon this story on the Uchumi debacle and the subsequent share dumb that occurred right before Uchumi shut down. This quote from Terry Davidson got my attention.
Here it is:
Former Kenya Commercial Bank chief executive, Mr Terry Davidson, is one of the key [...]
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I was breezing through the Standards reporting on the plane crash and it just raised more questions for me. Like…
The management of Kenya Airways cannot tell who between the two pilots was in charge of the aircraft at the time of the crash. One of the pilots, Francis Wamwea Mbatia, was a flying veteran [...]
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I was looking through the blog listings on Mashada and discovered this new blog called Kenyan poet — it’s a blog about Kenyan/ African art and poetry and dance and literature and music and neo-soul nights, and, and, and…wow!
It’s so nice to see a site that doesn’t focus on that pop culture poison and those [...]
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It looks like it’s going to be Raila vs. Kibaki. I’m not going to talk about the other presidential candidates because frankly, they have no chance of making it (and on that point, can somebody please beam Najib Balala back to earth? does he honestly believe he’ll be elected president?). Let’s just keep [...]
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This is not good, not good at all.
I had already boiled down the African airlines that I would fly to two: Kenya airways was one and South African airlines was the second. Now, I don’t know if I’d want to fly Kenya Airways again. I’m sorry…..this is the second fatal accident in less than [...]
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I’m kind of stunned at the diametrically opposing headlines in the Standard and the Nation. When ten people in a market are sprayed with bullets by a mercenary group of thugs or rebels, you’d think both newspapers would lead with the same headline!
But nooo…the nation leads with a flimsy story about some nominated councillor [...]
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I was reading this article in the Nation’s business weekly and they have a profile of two 20 year old entrepreneurs who started a company that takes care of people’s errands for them. Like many people in Kenya, these two young college students were forced into the world of entrepreneurship because of the economic realities [...]
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I was browsing through the Standard’s business section and they have a piece on yet another brokerage company that is playing footsy with clients money. According to the article, “Nyaga Stockbrokers Limited is fighting to clear its name after cheques it issued recently were returned unpaid. When contacted for comment on Monday, Nyaga Stockbrokers [...]
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