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Mshairi

• March 06, 2007
• 3:45

  KenyaUnlimited offline

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  An unexpected hitch has arisen leading to KenyaUnlimited, the home of the Kenyan Blogs Webring, going offline for a couple of days.

  We hope to back online as soon as is possible.

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• March 04, 2007
• 18:00

  The night of the lunar eclipse

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  As night deepens, thrilled we stand in wonder
  in awe, a crystalline sky a mantle of stars.

  Spectacularly ascending over the surface
  the moon regally glides over earth’s shade

  little by little, once a crescent then engulfed
  we marvel at moonlight’s luminosity loss. A

  lingering darkening an effervescent cerise glow
  vivid hues of gray and orange. Heads and minds

  

  uplifted we lose perspective as we gaze too
  long at cosmic splendour. Tender hearts souls

  yearning in solitude

  mortified by our inconsequence

  astounded by divine magnificence.

  Images of the lunar eclipse, March 3-4, 2007 via the BBC. Image above - Francis Williamson, image below - Matt Ohman.

  Other amazing images here

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• February 20, 2007
• 3:59

  I am not racist

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  I am not racist; I can assert to the highest degree
  some of my best friends are black so how can I be?

  I am not racist, non-white people fill my work place
  yellow, red and of course, the black race

  I am not racist; you must see this isn’t an attack
  after all, my boyfriend is black

  I am not racist but it really is just a question of reality
  black people simply have a different mentality

  I am not racist, I had just gotten on stage
  was heckled, took it badly and went into a rage

  I am not racist but why do blacks sometimes act so odd
  why are they always so slipshod?

  I am not racist, racism is a common malaise
  and we are all racist in many ways

  I am not racist, together with their sporting agility
  I admire black people’s natural musical ability

  I am not racist! I am not being nasty or even unkind
  I am just outspoken and like to speak my mind

  I am not a racialist; another word I’ve noticed
  is that different from being a racist?

  I am not racist but…

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• February 18, 2007
• 4:59

  Florence Béal-Nénakwé

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  In early January, I received an e-mail from a man, Mr. Pierre, who wrote to say he was the artistic agent of Florence Béal-Nénakwé, an ‘artist-painter who paints the reminiscences of the African childhood’. He also told me that Florence Béal-Nénakwé ‘paints of oil on canvas, in all vibrations as well as in the field of form as of the chromatic range’. He finished by telling me, rather charmingly I thought, that he was inviting me to ‘divide and discover her artworks and her African imaginary’.

  Subsequent e-mails to discover what he meant when he asked me to ‘divide’ remain unanswered.
  As Mr. Pierre did not provide any other information on Florence Béal-Nénakwé, I undertook a Google search and found that Florence Béal-Nénakwé is a cubist artist from Cameroon and has exhibited her work quite widely. I also found the information below from this website.

  Confirming her African roots through her art, the artist Florence Beal-Nenakwe paints recollections of her Cameroonian childhood. Entirely self-taught, she brings us a picture rich in colour, the inner energy alone linked to her native Cameroon and to her personal life enables her to project this gaiety and hope on canvas. Going from exhibition to exhibition since 1996, she displays her canvases and shares a message of tolerance and acceptance of the difference in the physical or in forms.

  I did ‘discover’ Florence Béal-Nénakwé’s artworks as Mr. Pierre had thoughtfully provided the artist’s website.

  I love the bright, vivid colours which remind me of the colours you see on a Sunday morning in Africa when people are dressed in their best church-going clothes. I am also intrigued by the messages and stories to be found in different layers when one spends time looking at the artwork.

  The paintings below are my favourites.

  

  African carnival

  (more…)

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