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• Violence in Kenyan High Schools | What is going on?

  Posted: July 24, 2008, 6:41 am

  It has been about six months since Kenya's infamous surge of violence that left hundreds of Kenyans dead, and thousands without homes. Now, we watch as young high school boys burn down their facilities in an attempt to get their way. Is this the new culture? Are we teaching our youth that the only way to negotiate is through violence?

  Join in on the discussion with some of kenyaImagine writers as they address this crisis:

  • Kamale T discusses his experience as a high school student at the Starehe Boys' Center here.
  • Capt Collins Wanderi is an educator. Here, he addresses poor parenting and policies within the education as factors that are to blame for the current crisis in Kenyan high schools.
  • In the cane and our culture of violence, Barasa Simiyu proposes that perhaps it is not such a surprise that our children have grown into such violent young adults.

• Constitutional Review Process and Persons with Disabilities

  Posted: July 21, 2008, 10:34 am

  In the last five years the legislative and social landscape allocated to dealing with the difficulties experienced by persons living with disabilities-or persons with different abilities- has been positively affected by the official gazettement of a large part of the Disability Act in June 2004. On the 15th of July 2008, the Disability Fraternity, with the support of the Center for Multiparty Democracy (CMD) and the Ministry for Home Affairs, held an authorized workshop at the Nairobi Sarova Stanley to discuss the Constitutional Review Process and Content by Persons with Disabilities (PWDs).
  
  Read more from Akoit Omasete here.
  

• Britain's Mau Mau

  Posted: July 21, 2008, 10:32 am

  Kenya was always Britain’s most troublesome African colony because it was neither one thing nor the other.

  It was not on the Atlantic west coast, with a wholly African population, nor in the south, where white settlers dominated. It was betwixt and between. British policy vacillated accordingly. Kenya’s historiography has been similarly stormy. Its controversies are important, not only for what they reveal about Kenya, but also for the light they shed on wider debates about imperialism and colonialism, especially settler colonialism, and the nature of African interaction with it. As to the last, historians used to frame their arguments in simple terms of resistance and collaboration. They have long conceived of a more complex dialogue. That historiographical transition informs the present argument, in which three controversies are examined in the light of colonial Kenya’s seven ages of ambiguity.
  

  Read here from John Lonsdale on the history of colonial Kenya.
  

• imagine diaries| Mon July 21st, 2008

  Posted: July 21, 2008, 7:30 am

  Hope you'all had a fun weekend! Here is some interesting blog posts to make for an interesting Monday :) To read all of them, click here. Sign up if you want to see your blog here.
  
  For summaries and direct links to each post, read below:
  

  1. Amina on Why does Obama hate my family? She reacts to a commentary by Ken Gray who criticizes Obama for making sweeping negative statements about black men in America.
  2. In my own eyes-- Msazi describes a peaceful evening with her brother and her partner.
  3. Enigmaress blogs on life: If , You have to hope, even hope is a lie, A new earth: awakening to your life's purpose, don't ask life, "why me?" instead say, "try me ," and if it bleeds, it leads.
     
  4. Johari on random idle chatter blogs about a music video she shares while chatting with a friend online.
  5. Amina in her post: on hair extensions and why you should reconsider that weave discovers that human hair extensions are not exactly the best thing for one to put on one's head.
  6. George Nyongesa from Bunge la Wananchi shares his experience (with images) with the Kenya Police at the Jevanjee Gardens: Police Terror on Bunge La Wananchi.
     
  7. Ritch wonders whether the recent Kenyan high school fires are accidents, or arson.
     
  8. George Nyongesa draws a parallel between high food prices and corruption in Kenya.
     

• Ntimama admits blood on hands

  Posted: July 17, 2008, 2:02 pm

  On NTV's news at 9pm yesterday, 16th July, a report by Robert Nagila was aired showing a confrontation between National Heritage Minister William Ole Ntimama and Chepalungu MP Isaac Ruto in the presence of Prime Minister Raila Odinga and Agriculture Minister William Ruto. Read More.

• imagine diaries

  Posted: July 16, 2008, 11:14 pm

  Here is a brief update on what our bloggers have been upto since my last posting a couple of weeks ago. Enjoy. For a listing of all the latest blogs, click here.
  

  1. Fear and Blogging-- Sunny overcomes this fear
  2. Truth in Advertising-- Sembe in his satirical post calls on us to believe in advertisers, companies after all spend millions in advertising.
     
  3. Catching Up-- Johari shares a story about a friend who visits her fiance's home.
  4. Mr. Kibaki-- No amnesty for Kimunya-- a letter from George Nyongesa of Bunge la Wananchi
  5. Retailing in Kenya, Nakumatt reviewed-- Stephen Wanyama begins discussion on the supermarket industry in Kenya. Is Nakumatt good or bad for the economy and mwananchi?
  6. The Cry Fizzles: Ritch's poem on resigning.
     
  7. A sentimental village dam: Ritch on his visit to Nyahururu last year.
  8. She'll be fine: Sembe on breaking up with his girlfriend, a girl who is really not his girlfriend.
     
  9. Kisumu's white elephant: Stephen Wanyama on the stealth creation of a public private enterprise in Kisumu. You didn't know about this one? Read on.
  10. just a band: Amina discovers a new Kenyan band. A new sound.
  11. The dangers of being cosmopolitan and eschewing macho campaigning-- Amir Ibrahim on Jesse Jackson's uncolorful comments on Barack Obama.
      
  12. Police teargas Bunge La Wananchi at Jevanjee Gardens-- George Nyongesa describes how it went down.
  13. Vodafone steals Safcom glory--PNdiangui wonders... .
      
  14. Insomnia: Sembe discusses his ailment and possible cures.
  15. Life.. is our reality real? or is it all an illusion? Enigmaress on why it is important to be yourself.
      

• imagine diaries| Monday July 7th 2007

  Posted: July 7, 2008, 4:23 pm

  Here's a summary on the weekend and Monday blogs on kenya imagine. Interested in blogging and increasing your readership? Just sign up and type away! Blogs are unedited!
  

  1. Sembe on Break Ups 2 Makes Up blogs about his relationship that never was, but was? Huh? Yup, read more!
  2. Richard writes a poem giving an Ode to the Charade: Zimbabwe.
  3. Josephine K calls on readers to list Scholarships in the US and Kenya, and anywhere to share with others. Please share!
  4. Richard on the East Africa Federation and Tanzania's seeming reluctance to join the union.
  5. Amir Ibrahim wonders why in sports we support who we support, how do we decide to pick our team or sportsman/woman?
  6. Josephine K discusses the challenges of blogging, of letting your diaries out into in to world.
     

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