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Send this article to Twitter!Every year when the KCPE results are announced they always seems to be this grand hoopla surrounding the entire exercise and quite frankly, I’m surprised it still garners such a high level of publicity. Yes, it’s always nice to read about that kid who overcame very difficult circumstances to make it [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!I was hanging out on Twitter the other day and I came across this Kenyan lady who worked at Ogilvy East Africa and I’m always interested in talking to people who work in the advertising business because I think the process of trying to figure out what will appeal to people [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!Three years ago, on this blog, I outlined what I thought were various “truth’s” about Kenya’s false democracy.
I talked about Raila Odinga and how he had no power (anyone who had cared to read the “agreement” struck in 2007 would have seen this “truth”)
I said the grand coalition government, which [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!I don’t like to get into nuanced legal discussions because they usually end up sending me (& others) off to a corner called “snore”. However, I am compelled to write this post after seeing how excited people have become about *shudder* yet another “draft constitution”.
I don’t know why Africans (& in [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!I want to talk about magicians in this post because they have this amazing capacity to reproduce things out of thin air. Things like…oh…let’s see…bank profits, revenue streams, idea’s, hopes and dreams.
I’ve said before that one of my favorite magicians today is a fellow called James Mwangi. Yes, he the current [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!I was having a discussion sometime back with someone and he said to me that between now (2009) and (2012), the only thing that’s going to be happening withing the government will be massive, massive theft. Nobody knows who’ll be in charge of the country after Kibaki leaves and if you [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!I have a bunch of interview questions lined up with some Kenyan entrepreneurs so while I wait to receive their answers, I want to talk about this question of whether Kenya has become a failed state or not. There’s been a running discussion on this topic at Twitter, but I wanted [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!Today, I want to talk about the growing number of Kenyan oriented internet sites that are increasingly using the web to try and find new customers.
The first site is the new Craiglist/Kenya site, which has all the same standard listings seen on the regular Craigslist site and since posting an item [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!So, I’d sent out a couple of questions to Nick Nesbitt of Kencall asking him about the BPO sector in Kenya and what he thought of it and I finally got a response to some of my questions and decided to post them here for your consumption.
All indications are that as [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!So, investment banks in Kenya were forced to publish their financial results and you can examine those results by clicking on this link, which will open it up as an excel document. Kenyan Investment Banks (Financial Results Summary)(1).
Now, I have no idea whether these results are accurate or not. I’ve said [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!In the second part of this post, I want to highlight some additional information from the book, which I found interesting and then I’ll conclude with an analysis of what message the book left with me. I’ll continue where I left off…
Barclays Bank London:
When Githongo finally runaway to London, he tried [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!I’ve just finished reading the book “It’s Our Turn To Eat” and I want to talk about it here because I really have nothing else to talk about right now and they were some interesting revelations, which I’d like to highlight below (for those who may not have time to read [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!I am writing this post for myself, but you are free to chime in and read it if you like. I had to write this post for the safety of my own physical health after I just finished watching a video featuring Kalonzo Musyoka. He almost gave me an anneuyrism. He [...]
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Send this article to Twitter! I want to talk about this ICC case because I’ve been reading about it and because it’s bothering me. I’ve been “tweeting” about it this passed week, but I want to do a longer, more fluid post on this issue.
Now, before I began, I do want to say that a [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!I was just talking to someone who bought the new Iphone and we were both going through it’s many applications and they are simply amazing. Everything you can do on a computer or a laptop, you can do on the iphone, but it’s even better because all those applications are this [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!I was just reading this great article in the NYT about the changing work force around the world. Everyone who works should read this article because it highlights what is happening to jobs around the world today. A quote from the article follows:
“A new generation of online service marketplaces is giving [...]
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Send this article to Twitter!Folks, I’ve been experiencing visions ever since I read this announcement in the standard: “Kibaki has appointed 40 year old Mugo Kibati as Director General of the Vision Delivery Secretariat.”
At first glance, the appointment sounds like you are reading an announcement from Che Guevarra’s revolutionary poetry: Director Generals, secretariats, from [...]