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• October 10, 2007
• 20:33

  Interview with a possible MP

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  election 2007  

  In these series, kenyaImagine ask a list questions of young Kenyans who are throwing themselves into the politcal ring. DO they represent a new Kenya? What problems stand in their way? Do they deserveto win?
  
  Download a questionnare here to forward onto aspiring members of parliament.
  
  The first of these is Ole Mepukori. Read his interviews here.

• 15:41

  why the process?....4

   » ‎ REBECCA WANJIKU'S BLOG
  
  It was important to build on the common interests, strengthen them, and harmonize the voices.
• 15:21

  why the process?....3

   » ‎ REBECCA WANJIKU'S BLOG
  
  The process was important for various stakeholders to identify the common foundation they share; to promote access to ICT in Kenya
• 15:15

  why the process?....2

   » ‎ REBECCA WANJIKU'S BLOG
  
  The process was necessary- to identify ways to strengthen the lonely voices..... recognize their competencies in the various fields and the contribution to overall goals...
• 15:09

  why the process?....1

   » ‎ REBECCA WANJIKU'S BLOG
  
  The process identified some of the lonely voices within ICT sector- in academia, civil society, government and private sector....
• 15:03

  why the process??

   » ‎ REBECCA WANJIKU'S BLOG
  The process was started to ensure that the network does not stand alone....
• 14:53

  Leaders...

   » ‎ REBECCA WANJIKU'S BLOG
  
  KICTANet's institutional assessment was led by Flo and Prof. Aosa. The duo boasts of working with giant corporations in their institutional assessment and strategic processes.
• 14:45

  Discussing ICT strategies

   » ‎ REBECCA WANJIKU'S BLOG
  
  others chose more friendlier settings within the lodge...
• 14:28

  Getting down to business

   » ‎ REBECCA WANJIKU'S BLOG
  The team got down to business. During discussions, some preffered to sit inside.......
• 14:18

  Beware of private roads

   » ‎ REBECCA WANJIKU'S BLOG
  Only in such areas do you get such signs. if you defy, you may have an arrow planted in your rear part of the body. But we were not going to get into such trouble now that our mission was well defined.

• 13:42

  Let's do away with the Muslim vote

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  election 2007  

  There has been a trend in Kenyan politics and this most prevalent among the media and political classes to speak of the Muslim vote, a collective that needs to be courted and won over by the parties and their candidates.
  
  Amir Ibrahim demonstrates that Kenyan Muslims are not a monolithic demographic entity. Read more here.

• 12:51

  Cast you eyes beyond.....

   » ‎ REBECCA WANJIKU'S BLOG
  In the morning, everyone wanted to know how far the land stretches, one needs not go far, just cast your eyes beyond....
• 12:36

  Fear of Chomodori farm

   » ‎ REBECCA WANJIKU'S BLOG
  
  The land housing the lodge borders with the Delamere farm and for the sake of my dear life, i thought it was better not to go further. i could only cast my eyes beyond the horizon. i cant recall his name, Chomoldley, Komodori, Chormodrey,....among a host of others....
• 12:20

  Night skyline...

   » ‎ REBECCA WANJIKU'S BLOG
  The skyline looked great at night......
• 11:40

  Jumping over the fence

   » ‎ REBECCA WANJIKU'S BLOG
  National Geographic tells us that people go for nature walks, so i decided to venture out. it was in the evening but i wondered why the management thought i can jump over the fence. Funny.....

• 11:26

  Ngilu Has The Option Of Going For A City Parliamentary Seat

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  Kalonzo Musyoka talked to the press at length recently about the “huge mistake” Charity Ngilu has made in joining ODM instead of sticking with the strongest party in Ukambani, namely his very own Hoo Ndii Emm.
  
  At one point Mr Musyoka said; “I can almost guarantee her that she will lose her parliamentary seat.”
  
  It is indeed true that Kalonzo Musyoka’s ODM Kenya (Hoo Ndii Emm, we call it in this blog because that is the way my cousins back home in Ukambani pronounce it.) is very strong in Ukambani. Mr Musyoka has spent a lot of time campaigning within his stronghold to ensure that he is the tribal supremo. The folks in Ukambani do not want to hear about any other presidential candidate. PNU officials recently plastered the whole of Machakos town with president Kibaki posters. The activity was done secretly in the cover of darkness and town residents woke up in the morning to find a Kibaki blitz. Two short hours later, almost every poster had either been defaced or torn down.
  
  Amazingly there is also a feeling amongst the Akamba people that Mr Musyoka has got a fighting chance of winning the presidency. Many of them are convinced that...
  
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  Raila Odinga secretly met John Githongo in London last month
  
  Guess what John Githongo's nickname was when he worked at State House
  
  Surely Raila Odinga Can NOT Be That Popular!

• 11:24

  Discussing ICT strategies

   » ‎ REBECCA WANJIKU'S BLOG
  
  welcome to lake Elementaita lodge. you can see it has several activities but i was here to plan how to move ICT issues forward, and engage policy makers.
  
  Now that they don't teach horse riding in the secondary school or college i went to, i wondered how to take part in such an activity.
  
  Enjoy the photos....

• 11:22

  Chilly Memories Of Nairobi (Kenya Betrayed)

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  Spain - some weeks before...
  
  Sitting on my terrace and watching the beautiful sunset over the Mediterranean Sea, I recalled how I had gone to Kenya in the late Seventies - convinced to do the right thing for the best of country.
  
  I had used the connections my ex-husband had established for me within the political and financial circles not only in Switzerland but also in Germany and Italy which allowed me to register my own Consultancy Company.
  
  I soon got involved in several projects arranging also the financing on ‘Soft-Loan’ and even ‘Grant’ basis offering the country therefore the best possible conditions.
  Everything seemed to be going well since I also had been able to raise the interest of some leading industrial groups which were even willing to enter as partners and invest their own money in Kenya.
  
  But most of my efforts got derailed by the cynical cousin of the New Head of State, Daniel T. arap Moi, succeeding the first President, Jomo Kenyatta, who had died in August 1978.
  
  The Hon. Nicholas K.A. Biwott ………
  
  Biwott was a very short, militarily clean-shaven punk. He wore nothing but designer outfits. His pricey suits were imported from Rome or Paris. His elegant shoes were always handmade – mostly in England.
  
  His eyes – like a vivious cobra’s – were small. They were set deep in their sockets, causing him to squint whenever he looked at something. His wiggly ears were like two disappearing blobs on both sides of his head. They were tiny and made him look more comical than he dared to admit.
  
  He cherished power – worshipped money.
  
  And because he had both, he had developed into one of the most ruthless powerbrokers Kenya had ever known.
  
  Add to that the fact that he was a master-manipulator of...
  
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  Raila Odinga secretly met John Githongo in London last month
  
  Guess what John Githongo's nickname was when he worked at State House
  
  Surely Raila Odinga Can NOT Be That Popular!

• 10:45

  KP on Canadian Radio

   » ‎ Kenyan Pundit

  Tags:  Africa  

  Was interviewed last week for a neat radio show (and not just because they had me on!) called Spark, check it out.

• 9:52

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala: Former Finance Minister of Nigeria

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  Here is a description of her from Salon Magazine: “There can be no doubting the résumé of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, named today by Robert Zoellick to a top position at the World Bank. A survivor of Nigeria’s Biafran war, she made her way to the United States at age 18 and received degrees in economics from Harvard [...]

• 9:04

  Finding My Way Around

   » ‎ For Love and Money
  Finding My Way Around

• 8:25

  Reprieve for small banks

   » ‎ bankelele

  Tags:  banking act  

  Opposition MP’s in Parliament yesterday appeared to shoot down a proposal by the Government requiring commercial banks to have a minimum share capital of 1 billion shillings ($14m) by 2010 – up from the current minimum of 250 million shillings.
  
  This has been seen as likely to cause several smaller banks to merge or be absorbed into larger entities. So for at least, another year, the barriers to entry to the banking sector remain low.

• 8:24

  whatisit?

   » ‎ Kikuyumoja's realm

  Tags:  Gadgetimoja  

  
  (cc) by MB

  What’s this?

• 8:16

  Exeunt Kibaki, Enter Raila (but…)

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  (Exeunt...!)
  
  (Enter...!)
  
  
  I received this short message on my phone today:
  
  “For Jaramogi hated Kenyans, that he gave his son Raila Amollo Odinga that whosoever believes in him shall live in eternal slavery, hunger, diseases and die in pain.”
  
  Whoever is circulating this sms must be a sick fellow. That’s all I can say.

• 6:10

  User's guide to beating ODM

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  youth  

  Stephen Wanyama publishes a list of proposals that the PNU could adopt in catching up with an overtaking the ODM party at the polls. This follows polls results that show the Party of National Unity is lagging behind in almost all the provinces.
  
  There are many Kenyans who see this year's election as a titanic battle between good and evil. I don't quite share that view, my opinion being that both sides have let Kenya down immensely.
  
  Read more here.
• 5:57

  World Tea Expo without Africa

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  Mt. Kenya  

  Year after year, Kenya is either the world's largest or second largest tea exporter. Although 16 African countries like Malawi, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda also produce tea, none of them makes even a fraction of Kenya's output.
  
  Read More Here
• 5:52

  Rising infertility in Kenyan girls

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  contraceptive Kenya Kiambu infertility infertile  

  Rebecca Wanjiku pays a visit to the Kiambu District Hospital and comes face to face with a bevy of beautiful young women, all of them in perfect health, except for one thing- they are infertile. She takes us through the tragedy of improper contraception use and the side effects of contraceptives, and the whiplash on a generation of girls.
  
  Read More Here
• 5:48

  New aid; the change in development assistance to Africa

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  Africa aid development Jacqueline Novogratz  

  Change is afoot across the African continent and even where it is slow in coming, there's evidence all around of a new generation of Africans -- entrepreneurial and inventive who are shaping a brighter future for the their communities. Jacqueline Novogratz explains a new path to development assistance, one which leads only in facilitation, providing investment rather than traditional aid.
  
  
  Read More and watch the video here.
• 5:42

  On Public Expenditure and Wealth Creation

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine
  ODM Presidential Candidate Raila Odinga's response to the last budget speech. In this speech, the Langata MP talks about his ideas on reducing the inequality gap while chasing economic growth, and the importance of seeking a holistic view of progress- defined by the Gross National Happiness index.
  He addresses the failures of present government measures, and sets out the agenda for what his government would achieve.
  
  More here.
• 5:25

  No such thing as a Muslim vote

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  muslims Kenya politics vote integration  

  Amir Ibrahim argues that the courting of Muslims by politicians is not only unfair to Kenyans of other faiths, but also dangerous to the Muslim voters themselves as a perception of them as a fifth column, self-serving and inimical to the needs of other citizens is created and reinforced. He also argues that there really is no such thing as an Islamic constituency and pleads that Kenyans come to a universal conception of rights that are due to all citizens regardless of race or religion.
  Read more here.

• 1:08

  DATING KENYAN CHICS IS BOUND TO CAUSE YOU R HEAD SPIN

   » ‎ assidous
  Dating in kenya is shit!!!!!!
  
  ( Drama from REAL life experiences ....read on..)
  
  Chic: (calls Guy ): "Hello... Sasa Jamo.. its Sato bana.. si we do some
  nyama .. ?"
  
  Guy: Thinking he will get some that night quickly agrees... "Sawa sweetie..how about Buffet Park ....Shall I pick u at 2 ..?"
  
  Chic: "Sawa.. laterz."
  
  (Guy amukas from Friday's hengies, showers, puts on jeans and polo shirt, pockets a pack of condoms, then drives to the Chics crib...)
  
  So at 2-ish they drive into Buffet park and pitia the butchery to order the nyaks.
  
  Guy (to Chic): So what do u want to have .. ?
  
  Chic: just anything...(aki these women are just thick at times... sasa hiyo ni jibu gani ..?)
  
  Guy (to butcher): Weka hizo mbavu, kilo moja na nusu, choma, ...ikuje na kachum... (chic interrupts Guy.. ! )
  
  Chic: Apana.. eeiishh..! ..Si you know I don't eat goat meat..!
  
  Guy: (thinks to himself...("Really..!... then why didn't you say so in the first place, nugu hii") (To Chic) .. How about beef then..?
  
  Chic: Its ok so long as it is not fat and not the legs. I dont like mathunya...( Guy looks away and rolls eyes up .. thinks to himself..."ati fat,you are already carrying a 40 kilo MATAKO, surely ... 2 grams of fat are negligible..")
  
  Guy: (to an already impatient butcher) basi si unitafutie ngombe haina mafuta. (butcher chucks a ki-nice piece from the hangers hapo nyuma and holds it up for Guy to see)
  
  Guy: "Weka hiyo nione...(as the butcher is weighing it on the scale... the Chic points at a small..... very very small piece of fat on the meat)
  
  Chic: "Hiyo iko na mafuta mingi sana , tuonyeshe ingine..."
  
  (Butcher curses .... under his breath. Other hungry buyers who are waiting hapo kando start to curse . Guy feels like he should just have ordered fish fry from those fat jang'o women they pitad on their way in. Chic points at a fresh carcass of meat ... somewhere near where the meat is hanging from such that is impossible to extract a piece without the entire carcass falling down on the floor.
  
  Chic: "Kata pale.. ..."
  
  Butcher: "Hapo haiwezekani mama .. kula hii ndio fiti ..(butcher attempts to return the piece back on the scale)
  
  Chic: "Apana..!.. Hauna nyama zingine kwa store..."
  
  Guy: (to Chic) " Eeh ..lets do this... let him fry that one, I will eat the mathunya pieces ama... ?"
  
  Chic: "OK"
  
  Guy: (to butcher) "Fanya iwe fry na uweke nyanya, dhania na spinach.Ongeza ugali mbili..."
  
  Chic: .. "Ugali..? me I dont want ugg..Dont they have Chipos..?"
  
  Chic: (to butcher) "Leta na ugali moja na chips mbili..."
  
  Guy: ( thinks to himself... no wonder her butt is 40Kgs.. sasa u avoid animal fat then u kula half a gunia of chipoz .. talk about nyani haoni kundule ..)
  
  Butcher: "KAMAU...!!! Oya nyama ino..! ..ni furae, na wikire nyanya, dhania na spinashi... ndugekire waaru..(butcher pins the meat with a tag and tosses it to kamau in the kitchen behind him)
  
  Butcher: "Sawa... shika resiti .. namba yako ni 53 ... Itachukwa ithaa
  moja ...."
  
  Guy pays the butcher and chukuwas the receipt and tag..So we enter the open space of the club and sit down. Waiter comes,Guy orders his cold Tusker,
  
  Chic orders her malt. We kunywa kidogo.. storoz panda... then there is this mama who pitaz a tray of oil oozing samosas, sausages and mshikakis..
  
  Chic: "Wewe ..psst ppstt.. nipe samosa mbili na hiyo nini ..."
  
  Guy: (shocked).. "Haiya, si u wait for the meat.."
  
  Chic: "I will still kula the meat..."
  
  Guy: ok (and she proceeds to kula 3 samoz and 3 mshikakis)
  
  One hour 20 minutes later .. the Waiter comes round with maji moto for washing hands.. we wash our hands and the the meat checks in with the chipos and the Ugali all hot steaming and looking nice... "Bonne Appetit"..! ..
  
  Karibu Nyama " ... Guy invites the Chic and thinks to himself.. now she will really shiba... LAKINI WAPI..! Yaani after all that shiet, she just hen pecks about the platter of meat here and there BUT proceeds to maliza the 2 plates of chipoz having eaten only 3 pieces of nyama. As if that is NOT ENOUGH ... 3 minutes later:...
  
  Chic: "tsk! tsk! chief...tsk! tsk! Waiter! niletee serviettes pliz..na toothpicks..."
  
  Guy: (cursing silently ) " Why arent you eating nyama...."
  
  Chic: "I have shibad deadly plus I started feeling my ulcers ... Si u jua the way they can be nasty ..??.
  
  
  
  Without another word Guy proceeds to kula what he can and asks waiter to pack the rest of the meat in a juala , patias waiter the now wrapped remaining meat to peleka to his car ...... Then he fungulias the carburetor
  
  ... "Leta TUSKER mbili na MALT Mbili" as they wait for the Arsenal Match coming on the screens in about 20 mins..
  
  Beers, Storoz, the game.... more beer flows... After kindu like 2 hours... to the amazement of the Guy ...
  
  Chic: "tsk! tsk! chief...tsk! tsk! ..niitie yule mama wa sambusa....(Guy closes his eyes and thinks silently... we should just have headed to Topaz....Fish and Chips...! ).
  
  So later on at around 12:30 pm Guy takes the chick to the car and starts being naughty kidogo. the chick responds well and before long they are catching rubs like .....)
  
  Guy : " Baby .. baby .. si we go to somewhere more private ..??"
  
  Chic: "Aaaah.. aaah... you naughty boy..!!! ..rrrrrrr... sure , whats on your mind...?"
  
  Guy: " Ill show you ...! ( Guy drives like a mad man in anticipation of what is at stake ..40 kgs of pure booty ... occassionaly missing the gears and going way up her tiny skirt) .
  
  Before long they get to Guys crib , struggle and grope all the way to the third floor.
  
  Guy :( Panting , both already half naked, he tries to remove her panties).
  
  Chic: "Wweeee..!!.. iz how ??....what you trying to do..?"
  
  Guy: (amazed) " Kwani what do you think ..?"
  
  Chic: "Bilaz ..!!..I dont want..!!"
  
  Guy: " Come on babe..!.."
  
  Chic: (pulling a very serious look) " NO..! ..Dont do that..!.."
  
  Guy: " Hala..! ..whats the matter..!.. ( thinking ... si thambutha umekula ? .. na viazi vya mafuta ?..)
  
  Chic: " I can't..! .."
  
  Guy : ( thinking ....Tusker Malt tano na nyama ya ngombe fry ? ... APANA .... Shuma lazima ilale ndani..!..)
  
  Chic: " I'm rolling ...!!!..
  
  Guy: " SH*T ..!!!.."