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• January 29, 2010
• 2:35

  Egypt vs Ghana 4-0

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  african cup of nations  

  Admittedly, this is more a wish for the Nations Cup Final than a rational guess. Ghana's defence against Nigeria today did give a good account of itself, and for a team as decimated of its top talents as The youthful Black Stars, getting this far is in itself no small feat.
  
  Read more here. And we are accepting sports commentary. Email us: editor [at] kenyaimagine [dot] com
• January 26, 2010
• 21:29

  My Coming Out

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  african lesbians  

  It hasn't always been this easy. It always made me nervous and uncomfortable. As though there was something wrong with me loving this way. When I look back I am not really sure how and when I accepted my fate and let it be. All I remember is that at some point in my life I was ashamed and scared to love a woman. As far as I can remember, I did not have much of a coming out experience for I was outed. I am not even sure what I was scared of. Moreover, allowing myself to live openly and honestly, only opened doors for me to live a fulfilled life. At least the pretense and self-denial is over. I share the part of my life I find sacred. I share what makes me, me. I share with you my experience as an out Kenyan Lesbian living far away from home. If my story does nothing else, I hope it allows you to see a glimpse of what life for some Africans in the LGBT community is like.
  
  Keep reading.

• January 16, 2010
• 14:11

  Haiti, Africa & The Plight of Black People

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african Business/Politics  

  Send this article to Twitter!Like everyone else, I’ve been watching the news about the earthquake in Haiti and once you get away from the stories about grief, loss and poverty, there’s another story that is also simultaneously being told and it is the story of countries ruled by black people and why they can’t seem [...]
• December 24, 2009
• 11:39

  The Honesty of African Governments

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african Business/Politics  

  Send this article to Twitter!No. This headline is not a joke.  Really. It’s not. I was reading a blog piece by this American expat who moved to Kenya when her husband got a job there with a private company.  Anyway, to make a long story short,  she doesn’t particularly like Kenya and gripes about all the [...]
• December 21, 2009
• 19:32

  African Music…..

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african Business/Politics  

  Send this article to Twitter!So, the holiday season is approaching and I want to lighten the mood up a bit here and stop talking about thugs, corruption kings and warlords.  I want to talk about one of my great loves and it is African music, which I still think is quite underrated around the world. I [...]

• July 17, 2009
• 18:54

  What does it mean to be an African lesbian?

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  african lesbians  

  Read as Sokari Ekine profiles South African photo activist Zanele Mutholi. Read and take a look at these powerful images.
  Zanele's photographic work challenges the many stereotypes of African womanhood, femininity, masculinity and victimhood often displayed by the media both on the continent and abroad. At the same time she allows herself - and us - to celebrate not just our bodies but what they do and give to us.
  

• April 08, 2009
• 15:51

  Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  The president of Liberia has just written an autobiography about her life.  The book is called, “This Child Shall be Great”.   You can listen to an interview she gives about the book here. I have not read the book yet, but it is definitely going on my reading list. I’ve said before, that if you are a [...]
• January 25, 2009
• 23:18

  Museveni on The Myth of Over Population

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  
• January 06, 2009
• 21:43

  Idi Amin Dada: “People Should Love Their Leader”

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  This is a documentary recounting the clownish and buffonish antics of Idi Amin dada. He once sent Nyerere a letter telling him that he loved him very much and that had Nyerere been a woman, he would have married him (inspite of the numerous white hairs on Nyerere’s head).  However, since Nyerere was a man and [...]
• January 04, 2009
• 1:19

  Museveni on Democracy in Africa

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  Here is a good speech by Yoweri Museveni making fun of Kenya’s illusion of democracy. Charity Ngilu doesn’t look very happy with him, but it’s a very interesting speech nonetheless. Key question posed: Can a country remain agricultural and be stable? Can an agricultural country ever solve the needs of an expanding population? answer that [...]
• September 01, 2008
• 11:27

  Africa’s 2’s

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  Africa’s 2’s is a new phrase coined by by Vijay Mahajan that describes people who are not desperately poor (Africa’s 3’s) or obnoxiously rich (Africa’s 1’s) and the phrase is taken from this Washington Post Article on Africa’s rising middle classes. The article also has some interesting stats on Nakumatt’s expansion across Africa. It’s projected [...]
• August 03, 2008
• 16:41

  Uhuru Kenyatta on Hardtalk: Part 3

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  Uhuru getting tripped up again. He is asked about the exorbitant salaries that ministers and MP’s are making. He responds by saying that parliamentarians enacted it. So what? it’s still exorbitant. Uhuru then says it’s wrong that they are making that much, but goes on to try and defend it by saying [...]
• July 16, 2008
• 18:59

  When Juan Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  I used to think that in Africa, the craziest, most violent people were Somali’s. However, since I’ve spent the last weekend reading about Rwanda, I’d have to say that the Rwandese could actually be a close second and maybe even first. Strange story #1: When Juvenal Habryimana seized power in 1973 in a bloodless coup, he [...]
• July 07, 2008
• 0:00

  Power in Africa is Acquired Through Blood

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  I said I was going to read this new book about Rwanda called: A Thousand Hills: Rwanda’s Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It. Anyway, I finished reading it this weekend and the book really confirmed what I have come to believe about present day Africa, which is, that we are not [...]
• June 30, 2008
• 21:20

  The Strange Case of William Munuhe

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  Every year, there are articles in the Kenyan papers about the whereabouts of the Rwandese genocide perpetrator, Felicien Kabuga. For years, people have believed that Kabuga was and probably still is, hiding somewhere in Kenya, but nobody can seem to find him. However, while Kabuga’s name is well known on the world’s most wanted listed, [...]
• June 11, 2008
• 17:04

  Paul Kagame: Performing Miracles in Rwanda

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  Rwanda is beginning to get lots of international attention because of it’s amazing transformation from genocide to economic prosperity. A friend of mine forwared this fascinating discussion on Rwanda that was taking place on a public radio station. You can listen to the entire discussion here. (you need either realplayer or windows media). According [...]
• June 06, 2008
• 11:07

  Obama is going to give me ulcers…

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  If this election is close, I don’t think I’ll be able to watch it without my stomach exploding.  For the record, now that Obama is the nominee, I want him to win, but I’m soooooo nervous because the polls are soooooo close. However, that’s not what I want to talk about in this piece.  I want [...]
• May 26, 2008
• 18:49

  Google East Africa: Philanthropy or Profit?

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  Did anyone catch this story in the Nation about Google East Africa signing a deal with a marketing agency called Wunderman Kenya? I’m reading this story and wondering why on earth this company had to sign a deal with google if all they wanted to do was start advertising online.  I mean, all you have to [...]

• May 09, 2008
• 10:19

  Regional diversification

   » ‎ bankelele

  Tags:  east african Community  

  Regional diversification

• March 31, 2008
• 7:45

  Kenya is Not Zimbabwe!

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  I’ve been listening to the coverage of the elections in Zimbabwe and I can’t understand why anyone is trying to compare the situation in Zimbabwe to the situation in Kenya! Zimbabwe’s economy has all but collapsed; Kenya’s hasn’t. Zimbabwe has the highest rate of inflation in the world at 100,000%; Kenya doesn’t. 80% of Zimbabweans are unemployed; This [...]
• March 06, 2008
• 9:18

  Forbes Billionaires: There’s an African on the list

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  He’s a Nigerian by the name of Aliko Dangote.  He owns a sugar and cement company.  I heard on the radio today that he controls a company that supplies European candy makers with most of their refined sugar.   I did not know that most of Europes refined sugar comes from Africa.  His company also supplies the Nigerian [...]

• March 01, 2008
• 16:19

  Rethinking Feminism

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  african women  

  A couple of years ago a friend of mine had a debate about the right to dress a certain way. Being relatively conservative, I was of the position that women (and men) had a responsibility to dress in such a way that they would not "provoke" negative reactions from the wider society.
  
  Read more from Nanjala Nyabola here.

  

  

• December 03, 2007
• 11:31

  Why Do Africans Still Listen To The World Bank?

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  There’s an interesting article in the NYT on Malawi’s new found answer to tackling it’s perennial hunger problems. In short: they stopped listening to the “experts” at the world bank.“Over the past 20 years, the world bank and some rich nations Malawi depends on for aid have periodically pressed this small, landlocked country to adhere [...]

• October 19, 2007
• 14:24

  Africans less intelligent than other races?

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  african  

  An eminent American professor and Nobel Prize Winner was quoted in a recent report in the UK Independent newspaper claiming that Africans are genetically less intelligent than Europeans.
  
  Should he be ignored? What have you thought of the debate on this matter around the internet? Is there really such a thing as an intelligence gene that can be handed down? Even in our country, among our ethnicities, such ideas persist and not just among chauvinists either. Is this not an opportunity to banish them for all time?
  
  Join the discussion here.
• October 15, 2007
• 20:08

  The Jambula Tree and St. Morality

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  african writers  

  As East African journalists and editors craft hate pieces against local homosexuals, half a world away, an East African woman has received an award for a brave coming of age story on just this topic. The Caine Prize for African Writing was awarded to Ugandan Arac de Nyeko for a compelling Bildungsroman on the lives of two Ugandan girls as told in a letter from Anyango to the long lost Sanyu, exiled to far-off London by her parents.
  
  Read here from Dorothy Adhiambo as she writes a review on her award tale.

• October 10, 2007
• 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 [...]
• August 18, 2007
• 11:17

  This Story is Amazing…

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  Chinese Entrepreneurs moving to AFRICA in search of better economic opportunities! what? what? From the NYT: “for many budding Chinese entrepreneurs, Africa’s emerging economies are inviting precisely because they seem small and accessible. Competition is often weak or nonexistent, and for African customers, the low price of many Chinese goods and services make them more [...]
• July 21, 2007
• 22:22

  Africa’s Internet Woe’s….

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  There’s an interesting article here (Rwanda Trying to get connected) about an American entrepreneur who tried to start an internet cable company in Rwanda.  The article highlights some of the difficulties he’s encountered.  He was hired after the Rwandese minister met him at a wedding party in Boston! Bottom line: Africa has to lay the fibre [...]
• June 25, 2007
• 22:14

  Black Man: Do you love yourself?

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  What’s that Bob Marley song called? oh yes…”Redemption Song”. If you know the words, sing along…. “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our mind. Wo! have no fear for atomic energy, cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time. How long shall they kill our prophets, While we stand aside and [...]
• June 18, 2007
• 22:57

  How To Measure Poverty in Africa

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  “Whether measured by per capita income or by the gross domestic product of its nations, Africa is the poorest place on earth.” This is a quote taken from an author who recently attended the TED conference in Tanzania. After describing how terribly poor Africa is, he then goes on to talk about the founder of [...]

• June 01, 2007
• 1:51

  The unafrican African

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  african patriotism  

  Read as Stephen Wanyama explains his identity, or lack of. Is he a Bukusu man, a Kenyan, an African? Well, he says neither. Read too, the interesting discussion that follows from readers-- the unafrican African.

  I know nothing about African customs. I read quite a lot so I know about some Agikuyu customs and Luo ones, I also know quite a number of Gujarati customs. I know about the customs of my parents' people, the Bukusu. I do not know any African customs though. I rather admire the history of some communities and famous people down the ages. Cyrus the Great, Mekatilili, Koitalel Arap Samoei, and so on. I even have a vague fondness for Napoleon and Thomas Jefferson, although the adventures of Samouri Toure and Uthman don Fodio don't particularly tickle my fancy.

• May 20, 2007
• 14:06

  Another Depressing Story on Africa….

   » ‎ Kenyanentrepreneur.com

  Tags:  african BusinessPolitics  

  An interesting story on Africa’s crumbling university system. Kenya is not mentioned. The focus is on Senegal, but the issues are the same. What really caught my attention about this article was yet another World Bank policy that has proved disastrous for Africa — The Bank reduced spending on university education and increased [...]

• May 03, 2007
• 9:57

  Window on East Africa

   » ‎ bankelele

  Tags:  east african Cables  

  East Africa biz news and bytes
  
  Uganda
  - Communities are already benefiting from oil exploration done by oil companies in Hoima and Bulisa regions.
  - Government to audit/evaluate NGO's in the north with a view to weeding out briefcase organization, those with an anti-NRM (government) message, or harming the peace talks in Juba
  - Simba (a nationwide telcom dealer with 22 shops in Kampala) has partnered with USAID to launch Simba cash a money transfer service available at its stores nation wide. It targets the rural poor who don’t have bank accounts and they can send as little as 10,000 shillings (Kshs. 400)
  - Diesel shortage expected to ease following the clearance of four companies – Caltex, Kobil, Total and Tamoil to be allowed to ship diesel from Mombasa by trucks. Demand for diesel and petrol in Uganda has grown to exceed the capacity of the pipeline which reached Eldoret. Previously only shell was allowed to do this is it was supplying diesel for Agrekko's thermal energy project. The Kenya Revenue Authority has been blocking this move citing fears of illegal dumping of fuel in Kenya and had insisted that the companies should pay full taxes on fuel before they collect it at Mombasa to be refunded after they cross into Uganda, but the companies refused, claiming that KRA already owes them about $6 billion in unpaid refunds.
  - From July 2, the Bank of Uganda will stop clearing cheques 20 million shillings (~Kshs. 800,000) thus requiring bank customers to use RTGS or EFT which are more efficient and less risky alternatives for large payments.
  - Barclays to enhance its retail presence by purchasing Nile Bank for $120 million.
  - Government plans to buy a new Gulfstream G5 (budgeted at $50m) for the President replacing the current G4 when it completes lease payments in November.
  Uganda telephone companies may soon be required to share infrastructure (masts, switches, networks). There are 3 companies now (MTN, Celtel, Uganda telcom) and will soon be joined by a fourth (Hits to launch in November) and fifth.
  - A bill covering the USE is before the cabinet which has been slow to approve papers/make decisions. This would allow setup of a CDS system here, and also eliminate capital gains tax for foreign investors (does that cover stanbic shares?)
  - President Museveni (M7) frequently writes lengthy articles in the newspaper and comments on matters especially where he feels he has been misquouted. The First Lady has also taken to similar writing as well.
  - AON has introduced medical cover for people living with HIV. It targets company employees in productive careers & life stages (35 – 44 years).
  
  Tanzania
  - Madonna in Malawi perhaps to adopt another baby?
  - Kenyan businessmen at athi river, rongai and kiserian are colluding to lower the prices of livestock bought from Tanzanian livestock dealers
  - Dar es Salaam university closed after students riot about plans to introduce cost sharing
  - RVF on the increase in Dodoma and soon expected to breach Dar
  - Tanzania breweries will build a factory that will use seawater to make beer. (This paper was published on March 31 – could it be an April fools teaser?)
  - President Kikwete has a monthly state of the nation speech that is broadcast live on radio
  - Plans are at an advance stage for a women’s commercial bank in Tanzania
  - A newspaper reports that the Tanzania tourism board quotes an ABC news program that identifies the Serengeti Park as one of, and - only African location – among the seven wonders of the world.
  
  Kenya
  It's amazing what you discover about Kenya in other countries newspapers
  
  - Kenya Airways shelved plans to fly to the US owing to safety & security issues. Also the airline will in May receive two leased Embraer jets to replace the Saab 340's turboprops.
  - Mobile phone taxes will be lowered in the budget this year
  - Nakumatt to open stores in Kigali, Dar and Kampala
  - NSE to start providing live prices to SNBC, and maybe even reuters and bloomberg one of the benefits of automate trading introduced in 2006 is that they will be able to provide instant and delayed reports, in addition to the current end of day and weekly reports.
  - The Nation has started publishing reports from the Kenya gazette, a great, and for too long underutilized, source, of inside information on the government.
  - GTV a satellite TV service comes to Kenya and Uganda next month as a low cost rival to DsTV

• 3:27

  Patriotism

   » ‎ Kenya Imagine

  Tags:  african patriotism  

  Patriotism in Africa - is it the bane of our Continent, the excuse for many of our problems? Or is it the right way forward to development and self-assurance?
  
  Read and participate in this already heated debate on what patriotism really is.