Archive for November, 2006
WAPI: To one his own
Mzee Kiko | Septuagenerian’s view
Exactly eighty-nine years after Matthew Murrey’s rack locomotive, called The Salamanca started work for the Narrow Guage Midleton railway in the United Kingdom in 1812, The railway line between Mombasa and Kisumu was completed. That railway line, passed not far from the village in which I spent the first few years [...]
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Old Dog learns a new trick
Mzee Kiko | A Septuagenerian view
I am seated outside my house on the Ngong’ Hills over looking to one side the planes that spread flat eastwards and southwards to Nairobi and beyond, over the Nairobi national park, in which i see from a distance, the vague shapes of herds of animals moving about.
From my vantage [...]
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By Udi Waithaka
President Mwai Kibaki has today reappointed Prof. George Saitoti and Hon Kiraitu Murungi back into their original dockets – Education and Energy respectively. He also appointed 9 new assistant ministers to the already blotted cabinet.
The two ministers were dropped because they were under intense investigation over their involvements in the two major corruption [...]
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Our cyle, our lives
A pregnant woman and a child were this week killed at the Dadaab refugee camps in northern Kenya, in a spate of flash floods that have left many homeless. According to Mr. Eddie Gedalof, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees acting representative in Kenya, many structures were washed away and destroyed as the two drowned. [...]
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Going to South Africa is normally a fairly daunting experience for most Africans. Not much about it is “standard” African issue: not the cities, not the lifestyle – certainly not the economy. Even their problems are closer to being European than African.
In many ways, South Africa has taken a position of leadership to Africa [...]
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Write round about town
There is a homeless woman in Woodlands, UK who started a blog chronicling her life. The unnamed woman who prefers to maintain the identity wandering scribe, lives in her car – sleeping on the front seats, with all her possessions in the back – has been out of home since September last year. She has [...]
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Yeah me neither. Initially, it sounded to me like a new drug being introduced in East Africa. Well I actually did some research and found out what Endomol is. Endomol is a production company based in South Africa that specializes in facilitating content for a variety of independent networks in SA and other countries. Endomol [...]
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The Voice of the young
Many of us have been 25 once. Many of us hustled and scrounged to get by at that age. Some of us, had an entrepreneural spirit that we persistently fueled until life said to us, succumb and we got back into the mainstream. A few of us stuck out the tough times when entrepreneurship could be [...]
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FYI: Update Like Clockwork
This is just to let you know that this blog will be updated twice a week every week – that’s every Wednesday and Saturday night, East African Standard Time. Check in every Thursday and Sunday for a good reading.
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Let us not kid ourselves. That Saddam Hussein has been sentensed to death only represents to the families of the 148 shias in Dujail, Iraq justice – and even then, I think, only to a certain extent. For them, I’m sure, the verdict means that the world has known that Saddam did it and since [...]
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