Displaced African Review: You Deserve to Feel Good by “Coach” Caroline Jalango

May 7th, 2008

You know your blog is doing alright when you ask a reader to send you a copy of their book to review and they do it for free. I’ll say it once, I’ll say it many times: Thanks Carol for sending me your book, I really appreciate that.

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No! Gay Marriage and Fornication ARE NOT Signs the World Is Coming to an End

May 6th, 2008

The L Word

For My Church Folk

It’s amazing how entire societies can practice selective amnesia. How African people, of all people, could have bought into the idea that because gay people are getting married, youngsters my age are fornicating like steroid-amped bunnies and there are natural disasters such as hurricanes and tsunamis, that means that Jesus Christ is coming tomorrow boggles me.

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Guest Post: Sci-Culturist

May 5th, 2008

Introduction

 
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NB: I also find it very cool to be getting a guest post from an African living in the UK. The first of hopefully many.

1) Sci-Culturist

Immigration signs at an immigration protest

Immigration Redefined

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Guest Post: An Open Letter to Men on How to Treat Women

May 4th, 2008

Introduction

 
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1) An Open Letter to Women on How to Treat Men

2) Sunny’s article on the Walk for Breast Cancer

African couple

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Guest Post: The One Thing They Never Tell You Before You Immigrate

May 3rd, 2008

Introduction

 
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1) Martin Luther King’s Dream Had One Little Hitch: Tolerance Isn’t All That It’s Cracked Up to Be (This post is quite long so get yourself something to drink before you read it)

You feel like you are lost and isolated even though you are sorrounded by other people

Take It Away Gal

Mwangi put me on the spot and asked me to do a guest post about being an incarnate immigrant Kenyan. Being quite the Read the rest of this entry »

Guest Post: Seinlife from Seinlife

May 2nd, 2008

Introduction

 
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French deportation letter: Make sure this isn't you

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Guest Post: Acolyte from My Part of the World

May 1st, 2008

Introduction

 
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1)The West Has Many Distractions: Focus on That Which Is Important Not That Which Is Urgent

2) Acolyte’s fascinating post on the Dutch missionaries (It’s a three parter and it’s amazing)

A lot of people think coming to the West is a light at the end of a tunnel when a lot of the times it's just the begining of another tunnel

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Guest Post: Jim from Kenyan Zone

April 30th, 2008

Introduction

 
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1) Open Office

2) Kenyan Zone

To learn more about Open Source click here

Mozilla Firefox logo

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Audio Interview: The Woman Who Entered a Poor, AIDS-ravaged Community and Left It as a Self-Sustaining Banana Exporter

April 29th, 2008

Posts like this are why the Displaced African was born and what I pretty much live for.

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The Week That Audio Built and Zangalewa

April 28th, 2008

Hello! Hello! Hello!
I am now declaring this week:

The Week that Audio Built

DJ booth: the tools of sound

Brilliant Title for a Week, Mwangi. But Why?

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