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21:31 Kencall: What is going on over there?
» Kenyanentrepreneur.com I wrote a post last year on Kencall after someone left a comment here about them not paying their employee’s. Anyway, as I was cleaning out my spam, I noticed that people were still continuing to comment on that post and they’re providing quite a bit of insider information. hmmmm…apparently, people don’t seem to like [...] -
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Will I Ever Relocate to Africa? To Do What?
» The Displaced African I continue answering your questions. Today, it’s all about Kelly. So shall we begin:
kelly asks:
When do you plan to come back to kenya?
What will you come back to do, like specifically?My Answer:
For the last 5 years, any time I was asked that question, my answer was always an unequivocal yes. I would return as soon as I was able to support myself materially to either:
a) Work on deep social change at the grassroots level or;
b) Make a positive contribution to people’s lives at the grassroots level.
Whereas one would think that starting this blog would have given me even more motivation to stick to that mission, it’s actually had the positive effect. Allow me to explain:
There is So Much to Learn
I LOVE LEARNING! If you want to bribe me, buy me tickets to a Jay Abraham seminar or Anthony Robbins seminar or tell me about the equivalent of the Alfred Deakin lectures and I will be there. Over the course of this blog, I have come to see so much that I want to learn about so many areas, relationships, health, business, music and even grassroots acitivism. Now contrast that with the fact that:
We are a Very Negative People
I hope that since you are a reader of this my most personal work, I can be very honest with you, as I always am. We, African people, to a large extent are a bunch of whiners and crybabies and if not very negative people who like to hide behind any form of material or intellectual success we have.
Now, as I have fallen deeper and deeper in love with all that I can learn in this world, I have reflected more and more and more on how much negativity I would have to put up with working back home. BUT I did make a committment to myself that I would do it and it is of course the noble thing.
So my answer is Yes, I do intend on going home eventually. Where I am currently confused is how and to do what but its definitely to work on improving the state of the country.
Some of the Ideas I Have Had
Long time readers of this blog would probably know about my plans to work in media, I dreamed for the longest time of owning African media and using it to put out positve messages. I have also thought about:
a) Buying my own constituency, as one would a business, optimizing it and then using it and presenting as a model for how to develop.
b) Going back home as a speaker to young people who are about to immigrate
c) Give talks on controlling sexuality and sublimation so as to eliminate rape as a social ill in our society.
d) Start up a church for young African men.
With many other ideas mixed in there. At the moment I am just focussing on optimizing this blog and trying to get to the point where I can support myself online. The ideas are there, not only to go back home, I’ll decide once I achieve my goal of supporting myself what to do next.
kelly asks:
You seem to like marriage a lot, at what age do you envision you will be married?
My Answer:
When I am sure I will be a good partner and husband. In short the most important part of this is how exactly I will ensure that I won’t cheat on my wife and will have the mental strength to see my commitment through. I have a number of ideas as to how to deal with this, and I intend on investigating this a lot over the coming years, but I have no date set yet.
Something Sad I Realized
Again, I speak to you as I would among friends. I like a lot of people, male or female, I lust after many women but I am mentally drawn to very few. You know that stereotype of someone who turns you on mentally……doesn’t happen to me. Now it could be that I hang around the wrong folks or I have very weird standards but either way…..just something weird I realized this week that I also must deal with.
kelly asks:
When you say men don’t feel love like women do, what exactly do you mean?
My Answer:
I must put a caveat on this and say that I definitely need to investigate this area much much deeper. Me thinks the best person to give advice in this area that I know is Julia, after all, she does this for a living.
Usually when I say that, usually half-jokingly, I am referring to the fact that I have known or heard of very few men who need romance or any complex gestures from their partners to be happy, though those would be nice.
A lot of the people I know and have heard of, as long as the woman is happy, they are fed, they have respect as a man and the sex life is good and the man is fine. No need for mink coats or dinners or weird get aways and cruises, all those are for the woman: food+sex+peace+respect= Marital bliss
but as I said, Julia is the best person to talk about this one.kelly asks:
What would make a man stay in a relationship that’s no good for him, when it’s so easy for guys to walk away?
My Answer:
There is a theory that all human behaviour is motivated by two things, a pleasurable or desired feeling/emotion or the need to get away from a negative feeling/state/emotion.
Now if we view life through that lens, then there appear many reasons that someone would stay in the situation that you have just described. I will list a few below:
Positve
1) They made a commitment and want to see it through.
2) They view any temporary moments of discomfort as a part of the game.
3) They have a solid friendship with their partner.
4) They need their partner for some emotional reason or another and their partner needs them.
5) For the children.
6) For harmony
7) The security of the institution
Negative
1) They don’t want to be alone.
2) They don’t want to stop being cooked for, picked up after and taken care of.
3) They don’t want to lose access to sex
4) They don’t want to lose their peer group
5) They don’t want to lose their trophy partner
6) They don’t want to feel rejected
7) The process of leaving would be too uncomfortable.
In short, I don’t know, the reasons are many. It depends on the person, what they are getting out of the relationship and what they are scared they will lose if they leave the relationship. Yet again, let me recommend, Julia…..she has a Masters in it too
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Safaricom 4s
» bankelele Safaricom@NSE Day 47: Safaricom dips below the IPO price, touching 4.95 before settling at 5.15 on almost 17 million shares traded
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Remembering Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine
» Black Looks Today is the one year anniversary of the disappearance of Haitian human rights activist, Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine. His wife, Michelle has sent this open letter to the Haitian authorities expressing her and her family’s resolve and calling for the truth to be revealed and her shock at calling his mobile and someone answering the phone. Madam/Sir [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Remembering Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/remembering_lovinsky_pierre-antoine.html" }); -
Nigeria: progress is nigh
» Black Looks Nigeria’s “high rollers” return home in a rush of “reverse brain drain”. Meanwhile property prices for the elite reach US highs at the expense of bulldozing the poor to make way for $million homes for the new high rollers in business suits. This crew of new patriots are apparently abandoning regular power supplies and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Nigeria: progress is nigh", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/nigeria_progress_is_nigh.html" }); -
Google launches African news
» Black Looks Google launches 9 dedicated African news services including Nigeria, Ghana and Zimbabwe. News.google.com.ng for Nigeria news.google.co.ke for Kenya news.google.com.et for Ethiopia news.google.co.zw for Zimbabwe news.google.com.na for Namibia news.google.com.gh for Ghana news.google.co.ug for Uganda news.google.co.bw for Botswana news.google.co.tz for Tanzania Tags: Africa Google News SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Google launches African news", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/08/google_launches_african_news.html" });
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Raila Steps On Dangerous Snakes At The Mombasa Port
» You Missed This I love the city of Mombasa. Many people do because of the numerous wonderful things that this coastal city has going for it. Crime is low, plenty of beach to enjoy and the place is extremely romantic. Some people even call it the city of love. Kenyans have moved there and loved it, saying that they never suffer the stresses that are common in Nairobi. The pace is slow and yet business wise things still get done.---------------------------------
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But all this is a façade. The truth is that Mombasa can be deadly to the naïve. There is a saying in the town that Mombasa iko na wenyewe which loosely translated it means that Mombasa has its’ owners.
Kenyans will remember the case of the policeman who was sent to investigate some missing containers at the port but was shot dead in circumstances that are yet to be explained. A few arrests were made but the case has now gone cold and will in all likelihood never be revived. That is Mombasa for you.
This is the kind of background that makes developments related to the port over the last few days very interesting indeed.
The coalition government has moved fast and in a well co-ordinated move both the Prime Minister and the president himself have issued statements concerning changes that that the government wants to see, including the reduction of roadblocks on the road leading from the port to Nairobi and beyond. The government has also given port authorities one week to transform operations so that cargo can be cleared 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Predictably this initiative has rubbed the powerful coastal town barons up the wrong way. MPs from Mombasa (obviously speaking on behalf of the “real owners” of Mombasa have come out both barrels firing. They have accused the PM of meddling in port affairs and have asked him to keep off and leave the responsibility to the minister of transport Ali Mwakwere.
Speaking during a harambee in Kaloleni District yesterday, four MPs accused Mr Odinga of undermining Mr Mwakwere and portraying him as a non-performer. The four MPs were Danson Mungatana (Garsen, Narc Kenya), Gideon Mung’aro (Malindi, ODM), Ali Hassan Joho (Kisauni, ODM) and Samuel Kazungu (Kaloleni, PNU). The fascinating thing here is that even ODM MPs are lashing out at their party boss.
Many Kenyans do not realize the real impact of rampant corruption and delayed cargo at the port has on the economy. Sadly the powerful cartels that control the port will not just pack their bags and go. In fact there are those who believe that to clean up the Mombasa port and uproot the cartels will take a full scale massive military-like operation like the one carried out in Colombia a number of years ago to deal with major drug barons.
There is no denying that the Prime Minister is a very brave man to have decided to take on the powerful Mombasa cartels some of whom supported his presidential campaign last December but bravery will certainly not be enough because these “stones are way too heavy to turn."
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