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• 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.
     

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