KI (email: editor@kenyaimagine.com) is a collaborative effort of over one thousand Kenyan writers determined to set out a vision for a new enlightened, peaceful and prosperous Kenya. [www.kenyaimagine.com]
kenyaimagine.com BBC on the more than 1 million Africans who fought in World War II. Heard of the King's Africa Rifles? http://ow.ly/Azye
kenyaimagine.com Posted a must-read report on post-independence land grabbing in Kenya. http://ow.ly/Azmu [Imagine History]
kenyaimagine.com Ushahidi
Source: www.nytimes.com
The open-source project Ushahidi, which takes its name from the Swahili word for “testimony,” was quick to understand this. The software allows text messages to be mapped by time and location. It was developed to track reports of ethnic violence in Kenya in 2008. Suddenly mere words can create a mov...
kenyaimagine.com Join in on this lively discussion on what defines democracy in Kenya following "one-man, one kilometer" remarks by MPs.
Source: www.kenyaimagine.com
The issue of equal or proportional representation is hinged on the state's authority to collect revenue and the mandate to guarantee territorial integrity and provide security and other basic necessities to citizens. And what constitutes a state; territory, citizens/people and a functioning governme...
kenyaimagine.com Malawi women taking charge: we are the government. http://ow.ly/AniG [IPS News}
kenyaimagine.com Looks like noise were fireworks. A belated celebration of Guy Fawkes Day.
kenyaimagine.com @potash reports heavy shooting around Nairobi state house. Anyone else hear anything?
kenyaimagine.com Gathara's Rousseauvian(!) libertarian streak -- now on display at ours: http://ow.ly/A4Qj [KenyaImagine Politics]]
kenyaimagine.com Tyranny of the majority. Election Day in the US: Americans it turns out share some principles with Kenyans.
Source: www.kenyaimagine.com
What struck me about those elections was not the Obama-report-cardangle mainstream media has been focusing on. Rather, it was an issuenear and dear to many of my friends: gay marriage. You might have seenheadlines like, “Maine rejects same-sex marriage law.” Or, “California Weighs Maine Vote on Gay ...
kenyaimagine.com Uganda is under attack and, as always, it’s the mothers of the nation who are to blame. Yes, really. http://ow.ly/zRGh [Imagine World]
kenyaimagine.com African Women's Public Service Fellowship. Apply and/or sambaza. http://bit.ly/Jl9ly
kenyaimagine.com Watch that alcohol: "using a condom depended on how drunk he was."
PlusNews Global | Southern Africa | Botswana | BOTSWANA: A risky combination of alcohol and sex | HI
Source: www.plusnews.org
SELEBI-PHIKWE, 5 November 2009 (PlusNews) - On a recent Wednesday evening, Gillian Otsile, a volunteer at a local NGO, Men Sex and AIDS, approached a group of young men drinking cartons of traditional sorghum beer at a tavern in Selebi-Phikwe, a mining town in northeastern Botswana. ...
kenyaimagine.com The three largest phone companies have a combined 1.8 million mobile users who enjoy some of the world's cheapest calling rates, allowing them to stay in touch with their loved ones.
Source: af.reuters.com
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's mobile phone business is booming despite the almost daily artillery fire that flies over expensive satellite dishes and the violence that has brought misery to the population
kenyaimagine.com Some people like to re-write history and current events.
Source: spectator.org
The economic and social breakdown of Kenya is indeed tragic. What once was supposed to be a model post-colonial lesson for Africa has devolved to a nation teetering once again on the edge of turmoil.
