This is the second part of this blog, the first, “The Demons That Torment African Journalists; To Run Or Stand And Fight (Part I)” was published earlier: (http://nakedchiefs.com/2013/05/16/the-demons-that-torment-african-journalists-to-run-or-stand-and-fight-part-i/). The Monitor, Uganda’s main independent daily paper, was closed for 10 days over the “helicopter story”.Among other things, we had been charged with “aiding an enemy of […]
May 16, 2013
Short URL African moderates, African progressives, apartheid, arrest of journalists, Luzira, media repression in Uganda, Military dictatorship, Nigerian journalists, press freedom, Sani Abacha, South African media, The Monitor Uganda, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni Aliens & Stars, Shooting The Messenger
My friend Kiflu Hussain, a decent man and good Ethiopian journalist who lives in exile in the Uganda capital Kampala, is angry with the Africa Media Initiative for holding its next convention in Addis Ababa. Why? Because the Ethiopian regime is a dictatorship that torments journalists. And he is also unhappy with me, because he […]
May 16, 2013
Short URL Addis Ababa, Africa Media Initiative, Andrew Mwenda, Candida Lakony, press freedom, The Monitor Uganda, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni Aliens & Stars, Guns & Roses, Shooting The Messenger
Whether or not a clear winner emerges from Monday’s March 4 Kenya election, thus avoiding a second-round run-off in April, one thing is for sure: In State House, President Mwai Kibaki will be packing his last suitcases, preparing to clear out. A lot has been said about what Kibaki’s legacy will be; how the disputed […]
February 27, 2013
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Kenya’s first presidential debate aired on Monday February 11. Reports say it was easily the most watched local TV event of recent years in Kenya. I guess it would not have been a genuine Kenyan debate if, as it did, it didn’t linger a little long on the question of ethnicity/tribalism. But maybe that also […]
February 13, 2013
Short URL Africa, ancestral versus cultural claims, Boniface Mwangi, citizenship, ethnicity, film, graffiti, In My Genes, InformAction, Judy Kibinge, Kenya, Kenya 2008 post-election violence, Kenya presidential debate, Kenyan, Kibera, Kikuyu, Koinange Street, Lucy Hannan, Maina Kiai, Mathare, Mwai Kibaki, Nairobi, Nairobi Half Life, Peace Wanted Alive, photography, Rift Valley, Something Necessary, Tosh Gitonga, tribalism, Unfinished Business In Central Kenya Aliens & Stars, Arts Ne Culture, Heroes & Villains
One of the key events in Africa of the last 10 years, not just 2012, was the death of Ethiopia’s cerebral but iron-fisted Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Officially, Meles died on August 20, 2012, but his critics and enemies (and they are quite a few) believe he passed on early in July, but his ruling […]
January 1, 2013
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Tuareg separatist rebels in Mali have taken advantage of the confusion in the capital Bamako following the recent coup against President Amadou Toumani Toure, to gain more territory. They are reported to have surrounded the historical city of Timbuktu, and wo important northern towns, Kidal and Gao, fell to them and their Islamist allies in […]
April 1, 2012
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‘I said to myself that he must be from a corrupt oil or mineral rich African country like Angola or Equatorial Guinea. The country, I said to myself, must also be a dictatorship. Diplomats from honest and democratic countries with a vibrant free press don’t wear $2,400 Clive Christian No.1 perfumes’ Recently I was in Paris […]
March 21, 2012
Short URL Africa, Africa image, Africa: Altered States-Ordinary Miracles, African Union, Angola, Clive Christian No.1, CNN, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Nairobi, press freedom, Richard Dowden, Rwanda, South Africa, terrorism, Tickles, Wikileaks Aliens & Stars, Fast & Furious, Political Barometre
Where men are threatened in Kenya, you can expect Maendeleo ya Wanaume (Movement for Men’s’ Rights), a conservative lobby group led by the colourful Mr Nderitu Njoka, to show up. So it was that recently, Maendeleo ya Wanaume warned that it was going to mobilise Kenya’s suffering men to boycott food in their houses starting […]
February 28, 2012
Short URL 460000 cases of men battered in Central Kenya and 300000 in Nairobi in 2011, access to food, African future, Beyond The Miracle Of The Market: The Political Economy Of Agrarian Development In Kenya, Central Kenya, contraception in Kenya, Daniel arap Moi, Field Marshal Idi Amin, Gachoka MP, homeguards, jobless, Jomo Kenyatta, Kalenjin, Kenya, Kenya independence, Kenya-Uganda Railway, Kikuyu, Kings African Rifles, Maendeleo ya Wanaume Nderitu Njoka, man beaters, Mau Mau Uprising, military rule, Mwai Kibaki, Nairobi, Nyeri, patriarchal societies, Rev. Mutava Musyimi, Rift Valley, Robert Bates, tactical infidelity, Uganda Aliens & Stars, Rogue Stuff
Mention fish in Kenya – the eating of it, the fishing of it, and the trading in it – and one automatically thinks of western Kenya. And if you want to get into the small details, you will learn that Kisumu City is the “fish capital” of Kenya. Nearly all Kenya’s fish processing factories, used […]
January 30, 2012
Short URL Bantu, between 1998 and 2008 Lake Victoria water level fell by more than 1.5 metres, Central Kenya, central Uganda, Chinua Achebe’s gods, dynamite fishing, East Africa, feeder rivers and streams, Fish, fish capital of Kenya, fish feed, illegal fish, Kabale, Kikuyu, Kisumu City, Lake Victoria dying slow, Mwanza, Nyeri, Tanzania, Ugachick, water hyacinth Aliens & Stars, Robbers & Barons
The other day on Al Jazeera’d THE STREAM programme, a Nigerian activist said that social media had played a big role in the on-going protests against the removal of subsidies that have sharply increased fuel prices at the pumps in the oil-producing country. He said the Nigeria government was caught by surprise when the protests […]
January 11, 2012
Short URL Africa, Al Jazeera, and give chunks of it to a dodgy Lugazi sugarcane firm, anti-hierarchical technology, Cappuccino democrats, Egypt, Facebook, isolation problem, Kenya, Kenyan politician, leapfrog effect, Mabira Forest, Martha Karua, Middle East, Nigeria, Nigerian activist, North Africa, old Africa, old-boy networks, social media, social media anti-system, south of the Sahara desert, THE STREAM, Tunisia, youthful uprisings in Africa, YouTube Aliens & Stars, Things Tech
