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In 1978 when Mzee Kenyatta died, the cost of a 2kg packet of maize flour was Kshs. 2.80. On December 27, 2002 maize flour cost was Kshs 27. During 24 years of Moi’s rule, the price of Unga had increased by Kshs 24, an average of 1 shilling per year. In 2003 the cost of [...]
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WSF: great talk, no walk
A follow up article by Al Kags.
A little more than a week ago, I asked a question – or a series of questions that left me castigated left right and centre by the online socialist community. My question was specifically related to the World Social Forum but generally to all other conferences. I asked that [...]
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The Races: The start of a series
Kenyans are for the next two years in for a veritable treat as far as entertainment is concerned. For eons, competition has been the surest form of entertaainment for the average human – and the two years 2007 and 2008 are going to be highly entertaining years for Kenyans.
The entertainment on schedule is the Kenyan [...]
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The Heads of the evangelical churches in Kenya, led by the Bishop Boniface Adoyo, who is the leader of the Christ is The Answer Ministries of the Nairobi Pentecostal Church, want the world acclaimed hominid fossils of the “origin of man” – undoubtedly among Kenya’s few true claims to fame, hidden away in [...]
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by Al Kags
The 7th Edition of the World Social Forum is going to be held in Africa for the very first time – in Nairobi’s Kenyatta International Conference Centre no less. At least 70,000 delegates from around the world are expected to descend upon Nairobi from the 20th of January this year until the 25th [...]
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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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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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By Al Kags
The views herein are based mostly on instinct but they feel so real that they just may be true. In 2008, America will hold yet another election to present the free world (which one is that?) with a new leader.
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Kenya maintains a dubious claim on Obama, left,even as he is set to [...]
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