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• On Dealing With Watchmen, House-Helps and Secretaries

  Posted: January 27, 2011, 12:26 pm by iCon

  A wise consigliere once told me the following: “There are 3 friends you want to keep in this country; househelps, secretaries and watchmen.” This truth is engraved in stone somewhere under 10 other commandments, I’m sure. This is why. House-helps, maids, mbotches, babysitters, Njeri, whatever you may call them; they are people you need to [...]

• Do we love or hate Raila Odinga?

  Posted: January 26, 2011, 2:21 pm by 3CB

  I don’t do politics. Or rather, I don’t do it well. I voted at the very last minute, and I ascribe to being truly Kenyan. I have no tribe. I get pissed whenever my daughter comes home from school with some tribal spew that she picked from a classmate. Post Election Violence was frightening for [...]

• The Gospel Of My Delusion

  Posted: January 25, 2011, 10:36 am by davina

  Feminism. Bemused. Insomnia. In that particular order, the three words with which I have suffered the longest love-hate relationships. Today I’ll focus on the first, and I’ll get right into it by admitting that there was a time when I couldn’t be convinced to touch it. No. Not with a seventy-foot long bargepole. Not if [...]

• Is Chelsea Back On Track?

  Posted: January 25, 2011, 8:30 am by iCon

  After Ray Wilkins got unexpectedly booted from being the cornerstone and unofficial mascot for The Pride of London, the club’s performance dwindled dramatically. The 3 strikers all seemed to gain 10 years in age and 10 tons in weight, the midfield was a lethargic mess and the boys in the back were just flat out [...]

• Daily Dozen: 25/01

  Posted: January 25, 2011, 7:46 am by Admin

  - Gbagbo will attempt to assuage Raila’s bruised ego [DN] - Is Safaricom toast? [FCK] - Kenya’s Banking Revolution [TIME] - A reading nation? [SMA] - Deforestation and Climate Change in Kenya [KFB] - The Economics of Big Love [NYT] - Episode 12: Too Tight For Men [Nairobi Nights] - They say we have freedom, [...]

• First Ladies of Africa, you have failed us!

  Posted: January 24, 2011, 8:00 am by misternv

  Disclaimer: The letter below is meant for diasporadical purposes only. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead is purely coincidental. Dear First Ladies of Africa, Cc: Organisation of African First Ladies Against Aids (OAFLA), Other than the time you held that International Conference for African First Ladies in Los Angeles two years ago and [...]

• Daily Dozen: 24/01

  Posted: January 24, 2011, 7:30 am by Admin

  - A ‘little Kenya’ in Southern Sudan [EA] - Notes from the ICC Demonstration in Nairobi [Mzalendo] - Extra-Judicial Killings: The Goat pleads for its life and the butcher for its meat. [Some Blogger] - No More Easy Money for Gbagbo [NYT] - Worth Every Cow: How I Bought My South African Bride [BBC] - [...]

• Daily Dozen: 21/01

  Posted: January 21, 2011, 7:40 am by Admin

  - The Kenya Police: Using the megaton hammer of subtlety since 1963 [DN] - Is Africa Resetting to 1980? [Monitor] - Unplanned Nairobi Infrastructure & Buildings [Bankelele] - The rich and the rest [Economist] - What’s beef? Beef is when CEO Ghossein of Orange calls bitter rival Airtel a ‘vegetable company” [TechMtaa] - Co-wifeying is [...]

• Co-wifeying Is Back!

  Posted: January 20, 2011, 8:00 am by nittzsah

  Wives the world over have come to detest the other woman. The debut of the mistress must have shocked the wife straight out of her headscarf, and for a while, she forgot about her other competitor – the prostitute. See, this mistress is something else all together. She’s beautiful, intelligent, adventurous, almost faithful (compared to [...]

• Daily Dozen: 20/01

  Posted: January 20, 2011, 7:26 am by Admin

  - In Corrupt Global Food System, Farmland is the New Gold [AAC] - Alcohol Law in Kenya [Bankelele] - This is My Rifle: Sex, Love and Nipple Clamps [Some Blogger] - The Overlap and other stories from Kenya [Gitts] - Safaricom’s Fear-Uncertainty-Doubt Strategy [LikeChapaa] - “133 Years”: Drinking and Driving in Kenya [AS] - Nokia [...]

• Boarding school? Oh hell no!

  Posted: January 19, 2011, 3:17 pm by 3CB

    A few weeks ago, the neighbour kid was having a sleepover at my house. Her mum had gone to shags and didn’t want her exposed to teenage boys like … you know … her brother. So the girl camped at my house. She’s the sweet, soft-spoken type that wouldn’t melt a Patco in her [...]

• Daily Dozen: 19/01

  Posted: January 19, 2011, 7:20 am by misternv

  - Who’s Your Mother? [Your Baby-Daddy's Favourite Blogger] - We stay with the Hague! Sign the petition! [ALK] - Kenyan Dumbocracy: A Rant [Gathara] - Is Tunisia the first domino to fall? [Telegraph] - Beef With Soap & Hearing Aids [Learn Kenyanese] - Not Kenyan Enough? [Diaspora Blogger] - A New Gold Rush in Africa [...]

• When Mom Came Over To Have “The Talk”

  Posted: January 18, 2011, 9:05 am by nittzsah

  I moved out of my folks digz five years ago. It was right after my graduation from Uni and I had just got a job that would pay me matchsticks for writing stuff about people #Journalism. I rented an SQ somewhere in Nairobi West, and slept on the floor for a while before I made [...]

• Daily Dozen: 18/01

  Posted: January 18, 2011, 7:36 am by Admin

  - Africa: a continent drenched in the blood of revolutionary heroes [Guardian] - The Brutal Truth About Tunisia [Independent] - New Constitution Sets New Standards for Privacy and Data Protection [MM] - 10 Even More Useless Cars [Your Favourite Blogger's Favourite Blogger] - You never thought it could happen to you? [Archer] - Africa’s economic [...]

• 10 Even More Useless Cars

  Posted: January 17, 2011, 10:39 am by iCon

  Remember this list of cars more useless than a Vitz? I had mentioned that there were more cars that were also pretty horrid that I’d forgotten to name and shame so here they are. Starting with the one that should’ve topped the previous list: Toyota Fun Cargo This car…Where to start? Well, it has the [...]

• Daily Dozen: 17/01

  Posted: January 17, 2011, 7:21 am by Admin

  - What have you done for your country? [DN] -Kenya no longer asleep, the chickens will come home to roost very soon [EAS] - Will Zuma never learn? [M&G] - Tunisia’s Revolution: Watching and waiting. [Economist] - I’ll say this much: Silvio Berlusconi has WAY better taste in women than Bill Clinton [Newsweek] - Nigeria’s [...]

• Of Still Waters & Single Parenthood

  Posted: January 14, 2011, 9:42 am by 3CB

  A while back, I wrote about the neighbour kid. She scored 357 in KCPE and voluntarily decided to rewind. I should mention that some months back, she asked me to teach her about computers. Once I opened Word and started to explain how it works, she quickly said she just wanted Facebook. I saw no [...]

• Daily Dozen: 14/01

  Posted: January 14, 2011, 7:36 am by Admin

  - Kenyans and Their Peculiar Habits [Twitter] - Which is the best internet service provider in Kenya? [LikeChapaa] - “Ideally, elections are held to choose leaders, but in many cases in Africa, elections are intended to dress up despots in democratic garb.” [Guardian] - Somalia’s new PM says government troops will target Al-Qaeda “very, very [...]

• Daily Dozen 13/01

  Posted: January 13, 2011, 7:40 am by Admin

  - How To Fund The Ocampo 6 in 2011 [YMT] - I’m tired of these men. Martha Karua for President 2012 [Tamaku] - Is the Kenyan Cabinet the institution most in need of a purge? [Mzalendo] - If you can write, a cool one million shillings could be yours [KB] - Sustaining African Impunity [KenOpalo] [...]

• The Ocampo 6 Are Getting 4.76 Billion Kshs For…What?

  Posted: January 12, 2011, 11:51 am by iCon

  If you weren’t jealous to hear how plush their detention at retreat the Hague was going to be, a new reason to envy the crooks Ocampo identified as the orchestrators of the Post Election Violence has emerged. These guys are apparently slotted to get 4.76 BILLION of our shillings to foot their expenses. So, they [...]

• Just Skip Your Bridal Shower

  Posted: January 12, 2011, 9:00 am by nittzsah

  Sometime last year, someone had the regrettable idea of inviting me to a Bridal Shower -my first since a midwife slapped my little brown ass. Of course now it’s grown bigger…, and from the looks of things…, darker .., ok.., mutation story for another day. But yes, someone was crazy enough to invite me for [...]

• What If There Wasn’t a Scramble for Africa?

  Posted: January 12, 2011, 8:45 am by 3CB

  The idea behind DR was to be a voice for summer bunnies. Well, no, not really, but it was based on kids who had been abroad and were now back home. [Please note that I use the words 'kids' and 'abroad' loosely, since I'm almost three decades old, and I've only been as far as [...]

• Daily Dozen: 12/01

  Posted: January 12, 2011, 7:30 am by Admin

  - Contenders for Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court [KenyanJurist] - Proof that Moi ruled Kenya for 24 years while semi-literate [DN] - On the rise of Women [TEDtalks] - “Southern Sudan and Convenient Patriotism” [Very Interesting] - Gabrielle Giffords’ Shooting: The Impact on Obama’s Presidency [TIME] - Has the Church Failed Us? [...]

• The SoapBox: “Southern Sudan and Convenient Patriotism”

  Posted: January 11, 2011, 11:11 am by iCon

  It’s annoyingly hard to not know what’s going on in Southern Sudan right now; every national media outlet has dedicated so much airtime to it that it’s apparently become a national priority. But as they vie for their independence from the rest of Sudan and bleed rivers for their struggles, at one point or another, [...]

• Daily Dozen: 11/01

  Posted: January 11, 2011, 7:23 am by Admin

  - Girls Who Created Social Network for Farmers [KenyaNews] - IDEOS Android Is Now Available in Kenya [Twitter] - 2011 INEC Nigeria Voter Registration Video [God Bless Pidgin English] - Global Barometer of Hope And Despair: Outlook On 2011 Economy [TIME] - Coming up with a name for a new nation: Southern Sudan [NB] - [...]

• Premier League Teams – Hit or Miss?

  Posted: January 11, 2011, 6:58 am by Le spécial 1

  Now that we’ve had some time to digest this past week’s action-packed EPL encounters, I figured this is a good time to share my thoughts with you on some of the key teams: Manchester City: After many months of speculation as to whether he would join Chelsea, Madrid, Juventus or Manchester United, City finally have [...]

• Daily Dozen: 10/01

  Posted: January 10, 2011, 7:19 am by Admin

  - Kenya Ni Yetu. Katiba Yetu. Maisha Yetu. [DR/NiSisi] - New front opened in war on graft in Kenya [DN] - Parliamentary Impunity: Where is the fury? [AlKags] - Disband Parliament before they disband everything? [Mzalendo] - What to Look out for in 2011 [Ratio] - All of Africa celebrates to see this peaceful referendum [...]

• Kenya Yetu. Katiba Yetu. Maisha Yetu.

  Posted: January 9, 2011, 1:21 pm by iCon

  Today, history was made at the Freedom Corner of Uhuru Park as Kenyans gathered to launch the “Kenya Ni Yetu” Campaign. Kenyans gathered in their numbers to strategize and discuss the peaceful revolution that needs to happen in order for the country to experience the change we so deserve. This is the first in what [...]

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