The fact that South Sudan, Somalia and Sudan have applied to join the East African Community (comprising Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda) was unthinkable even as the 1970s ended. The forces pulling East Africa were either southward, when for example Tanzania’s Julius Nyerere, Uganda’s Milton Obote, and Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda formed the famed “Mulungushi […]
June 4, 2012
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Vote rigging, buying, and selling are the price we pay for democracy in Africa. Like all investments, if you put in money long enough and are able to withstand the ill winds, it pays off. Right now, if an African election is fair, it is a bonus we must take and quickly bank. Otherwise, the more […]
April 6, 2012
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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
Short URL Africa, Alassane Ouattara, Angola, Baganda, Bamako, Banyamulenge, Big Man rule, Capt Amadou Sanogo, civilianised, Darfur, Democratic Republic of Congo, Diego Maradona, Economic Community of West African States, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Eduardo dos Santos, Ethiopia, executed 20000 civilians, forces of history, Ghanda Koi Songhai militia, greed, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Khartoum, Kidal Gao, Libya, Mali, Matebeland massacres, military coups, Mombasa Republican Council, Muammar Gaddafi, NATO bombing, Niger Delta, Nigeria, North-Korean-trained Fifth Brigade, one-party dictatorship, post-independence, regionalism, Robert Mugabe, secessionist, Somalia, South Africa, South Kordofan, Sudan, Tanzania, Timbuktu, Tuareg, Tuareg people, Tunisia, Tutsi, Uganda, Zanzibari independence, Zimbabwe Aliens & Stars, Political Barometre, 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 part of Kampala where I am currently staying has been having a very African problem nearly every night – the power goes out until well past midnight. Meanwhile, in far off eastern Tanzania, Bukoba had electricity. Tanzania’s electricity industry is a disgraceful shambles; probably East Africa’s worst. Bukoba, though, suffers the least power outages. […]
January 1, 2012
Short URL Africa, Bukoba, Constituency Development Fund, corruption, Dark Continent, electricity, energy sector, Gachoka, Gatanga, Kenya, Mutava Musyimi, Mwai Kibaki, national grid, Peter Kenneth, power outage, regionalisation, Tanzania, tribalise, Uganda Politically Incorrect, Testing The Waters
