Archive for January, 2008
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Hey,
First up, you may notice that the site is being upgraded at the moment. Most of the website is working at optimum level so don’t be scared; feel free to browse around and we will be done upgrading the site sooner rather than later 🙂 .
Recently I decided that I would stop blogging about the post election violence for a couple of reasons:
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Tags:Kenya peace, kenya violence, kenya-elections, Kibaki, Kikuyus, Luos, Raila
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Part seven of the 10 things I wish I knew before leaving Africa
From Wikipedia encyclopedia: Jungle fever- a slang term for interracial relations
It was my last week in Kenya and I was just about to be shipped off to Australia. There I was, casually sauntering through Carnivore trying to convince older women that I still wasn’t being breast fed. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a friend of mine, drunker than a depressed brewery worker, come staggering down. He staggered directly to me, plopped his hand on my shoulder and delivered a monologue that I will probably never forger until the day I die. I paraphrase:
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Tags:Interracial relationships, Jungle fever, mandingo fantasy, white women black men
Posted in Beyond Mandingo: Having Super-Duper Relationships, Top 10 things I wish I knew before I left Africa | 268 Comments »
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Part one of the 10 things I wish I knew before I left Africa
One of my teachers once told me, “If you want to succeed, put words to things which people haven’t put words to yet. Give a name to, verbalize or talk about gnawing feelings that people have that they just can’t describe.” Ironically, I am about to do that for myself and in so doing I hope I give voice to some of the things that YOU experience.
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Tags:African, African immigrants, Africans diaspora, Australia, Martin Luther King, personal development
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Hey,
I wrote a nice long article, hoping to release two articles today within twelve hours of each other, and then lo and behold, the computer froze up and deleted three quarters of my article. I should have that done by tomorrow. Today, however, as promised, I thought I would give you a glance into what is going on in Kenya from a Kenyan perspective. I will share with you a couple of resources that can dramatically increase your knowledge of what’s being going on in Kenya since the election debacle began.
The Picture Man
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Tags:DEMOSH, Kenya election, kenya violence, What an African woman thinks
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
Straight off the bat let me apologize for the vulgar language. Though I tend to use profanities in every day life that’s not what I wanted this blog to be about. Every once in a while you come across one of those expressions that just can’t be expressed in any other way.Plus it got your attention didn’t it?
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Tags:kenya violence, Pareto Principle, Success psychology
Posted in Serving the African Continent | 3 Comments »
