Yesterday I tried to buy an Economy class seat for a quick dash to Uganda, and return on Sunday to catch the Election Day action on Monday March 4. There were no seats on any of the flights. Well, I am still waiting for something to open up. Oh, I was told there were two […]
February 27, 2013
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Why do male golfers hate women? A few days ago, Kenya’s Limuru Country Club expelled three female golfers for opposing a new a rule denying women a voice and a vote in the general assembly – and then speaking about it to the media! It doesn’t matter what the status of the three women are, […]
February 20, 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
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One of the Elders associated with Nation Media Group (NMG) is extremely well-travelled and from all over the world he soaks in several lessons about media. His knowledge of the media business can be disarming. In one meeting, he reflected on what he considered the “unfortunate” tendency that has invaded African media too, of filling […]
December 13, 2012
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Nairobi is an unusual city. Every wealthy suburb has its own slum that provides cheap labour for gardening, housework, plumbing, and other services for the stately homes. The diplomatic enclave of Gigiri, home to the UN Complex, US and other embassies; and the Runda and Rosslyn suburbs too have their slum – Githogoro. However, something […]
December 9, 2012
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YESTERDAY in “Politically Incorrect: Why Africa’s Cities Are The Dirtiest In The World, And ‘Village Food’ Is Bad For Towns (How It Began)”, we examined the controversial view expounded by Uganda’s sharp-tongued former Vice President Dr Specioza Kazibwe that the conventional toilet and garbage collecting trucks in African cities cannot cope with the fall-out from […]
May 15, 2012
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The story begins in this first part, with why flush toilets and garbage trucks are “unAfrican” – and what that has to do with dirty streets in many African cities. Of the world’s 25 dirtiest cities, 16 – or 64 percent of them – are in Africa. Well, at least that was the story in […]
May 14, 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
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“The LRA had punctured a hole in her upper and lower lips, then run a padlock through it—and walked away with the key. When they found the woman, she was emaciated, and had a rotting wound stuck around the padlock” THIS IS THE STORY OF KONY, OR RATHER KONY 2012, that sensational […]
March 13, 2012
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