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Saturday, November 21, 2009 |
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Ndugu Kizungu mingi haitasaidia Afrika loosely translated to mean Too much English will not save Africa That was I had made my presentation at a TED Technology Entertainment and Design conference in Arusha when a Tanzanian Wiseman walked to me and uttered those coded words At first I thought he was not impressed with my English ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 |
China has helped redefine the International Community for Africa For over a century the international community has been framed by mostly Europe and United States of America Africas relation with its old European allies has little changed the continent in terms of transforming its economies from nature driven to knowledge driven Chinas ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 |
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It is instinctive to take advantage of resources and assets that one has to push for development and growth Politically it is the language of My people do not joke with our vote rich zones TV stations beam such sentiments all over Our country is rich in oil rich in tourists sites country leaders boast as their citizens wallow in po ... Read more |
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 |
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It is a tragedy that Africa in spite of its vast geological and human resources still wallows in poverty with close to of its population living on less than a day The African leadership and policy makers have over the years focused on natural resources instead of the African people What passes for education in Africa is nothing ... Read more |
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Monday, September 28, 2009 |
The news that police officers at Vigilante House reported daily for duty in a monitoring room that had nothing but blank screens for years is quite revealing about the state of Kenya and by extension Africa It is said that the police headquarters was supplied with dummy surveillance equipment and in a monkeyseemonkeydo approach someone assum ... Read more |
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009 |
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The United States of America imported goods worth billion from Africa in Close to of these imports were in the form of crude oil and other strategic minerals As AGOA delegates converge in Nairobi it is important that African countries reevaluate the benefits they need from this trade pact Of its years history one would sa ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 08, 2009 |
The families of Ole Letema have covered over kilometers in the last two and a half years in search for pasture for their cattle Our cattle are now less than twenty kilometers away from Nairobi in Karen suburbs and Ngong Hills area a friend close to the pastoralists families intimated As the G nations that command of the global econo ... Read more |
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009 |
The global market system as currently constituted favors G countries and is not designed to enable Africans to develop their economies My recent visit to a farming village in Zambia triggered questions in my mind about the elusive goal of development in Africa The village resembled my childhood one of in western Kenya That was the period w ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 11, 2009 |
Which African will pay for an antimalaria spraying service an official from a Western foundation asked You know what Africans are used to free things Set up an NGO and we can help subsidize your activities he went on This conversation took place following an accidental meeting in a Western Kenya cyber café where a hawk eyed mzungu peep ... Read more |
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Thursday, June 04, 2009 |
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Reggae fans must be familiar with Lucky Dubes song that goes in part Blessed is the hand that giveth Than the one that taketh Ever since the global economy hit a slowdown the quest for a new world order devoid of capitalism has dominated opinions Capitalism has capitulated seems to be the exhilarating feeling by many Is the worl ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 |
The first official trip to SubSaharan Africa by the first African American president in July this year is loaded with deep symbolism No other choice was better placed than Ghana a door through which Africans passed to slavery as well as a door to Africas independenceFor almost years Ghana was the centre of the transatlantic slave t ... Read more |
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 |
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came across the word peasant as a small boy in That was my second year of learning the English language when government Census officials came knocking on our door in Western Kenya armed with two big English words I had never heard before Occupation and Peasant What is your occupation the official asked my dad I am a farmer ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 |
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Did you know that hyenas have intelligent hunting skills They surround a toothless old hyena at the edge of the thorny hedged cattle kraal and bite it so hard that the only escape is to push through the sharp thorns Once an opening is created an army of fierce hyenas will go into a meat grabbing spree narrates Songol a lady residing in Bari ... Read more |
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Thursday, April 02, 2009 |
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IntroductionAttempts to push Africa to adopt a market economic policy framework by Western countries through the World Bank IMF and their allied international agencies goes against the spirit of free choice enshrined in free market systems To fully enjoy the benefits of a market economic system Africa must divorce herself from the force ... Read more |
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 |
April She is called Salome She has walked on Mbagathi Way and crossed Mombasa Road to Enterprise Road for the last years to work at a food packaging plant in Industrial Area Her status has remained just that one of the hundreds of thousands of Nairobians who stream out of Kibera as early as am to work for around a day Cl ... Read more |
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009 |
When asked by a reporter why he robbed banks a famous American bank robber Willie Sutton is alleged to have replied Because that is where the money is Over to Kenyan leaders why are you corrupt I guess the answer is Because public wealthproperty belongs to no one in particularThe concept of Mali ya Umma public wealthproperty flou ... Read more |
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008 |
Drivers on Kenyas Langata Road on the th of December must have seen them the lost generation headed for an anti HIVAIDS Concert I thought to myself These youngsters have such a creative way of being romantic a young girl probably in her early s is tossed up in the air by a group of boys Her feet in the air head upside down and ... Read more |
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Thursday, December 04, 2008 |
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It is not uncommon for friends of Africa to ask people on the continent to forget the past and forge ahead Blaming colonialism will not help your country develop focus on the future they say As much as I may agree in part with the thesis of forget the past I am inclined to remind my brothers and sisters that history is very important for t ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 |
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My friend what do you see outside the window of your hotel Sohini Kar asked I stood on the hotel balcony and happily announced that I could see the huge roundabout at the busy Connaught Place highway beautiful skyscrapers and some Beijingtype foggy weather You dont see people she inquired further Oops I see people many people I ... Read more |
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Wednesday, November 05, 2008 |
Over million liters of African blood million people killed from the Democratic Republic of Congo has powered the Western Worlds electronic and military hardware industry for the last years The so called civilized world does not find it despicable to drench the African soil with blood for purposes of driving their industrial might ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 |
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The Justice Philip Waki Commission Report on Post Election Violence in Kenya Presents only a pedestrian view of events and scary description of violence but falls short on evidence that would worry the perpetrators It is nothing but a scarecrow asserts Ashitiva Mandale a prominent Nairobi lawyer By delving into the history of election violen ... Read more |
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Friday, October 17, 2008 |
The US Million Purchase for Progress initiative unveiled under the auspices of The World Food Program supported by the Bill Melinda Gates and the Howard G Buffet Foundation to help poor farmers across the world increase their income is a welcome gesture It is however important to note that it is not ne ... Read more |
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 |
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In his postcard Where are the Free Market Advocates Tajudeen AbdulRaheem Director Justice Africa questions why a Capitalist country such as the United States of America opts to bail out the rich greedy bankers and yet does not agree to have the state protect poor people One can defend the states role of facilitating a free environment that ... Read more |
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 |
Substance of the speech by James Shikwati Director Inter Region Economic Network and CEO The African Executive during the Kenya Alliance of Resident Associations KARA Bimonthly Talk Series on th September at Kenyatta International Conference Centre Nairobi Acting Minister for Finance Hon Minister John Njoroge Michuki Ass ... Read more |
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 |
It is a high time Africa resorted to an alternative plan The World Trade Organization has tossed African countries from one issue to the next without leading to any significant gains Initially African countries and other poor countries literally begged for medicine for their sick under the stringent measure adopted under the TRIPS Trade Related ... Read more |
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Monday, July 07, 2008 |
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As G leaders assemble in Toyako in Japan it has not escaped keen observers that the entry of China into the game of doling money has radically changed the way Africa is perceived in the World Africa has become a strategic supplier of energy to large economies and can no longer be wished away The G has been synonymous with Tony Blairs sentimen ... Read more |
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
Mr Ochango manager of Western Kenya based Imwo Agrovet observes Eating sweet potatoes and tea for breakfast is a sign of poverty To show improved status one has to have tea milk and buttered bread here in the village During my research days in Mutomo an arid part of Eastern Kenya farmers would point out to me that they were so poor that ... Read more |
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 |
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I can tell from responses to my articles that we are all angry at what is going on in Kenya The anger does not limit itself to disputed presidential poll results it touches on the ongoing violence destruction of property tribal harassment and a looming economic melt down The alarming aspect of our anger is the fixation on short term solution w ... Read more |
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