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Voice Over on Kenyan media…

Annoyed at the ad on one of the tv stations advertising some special on the US election, boasting media presence in the States, the UK, and Kogelo, for one fundamental reason. The dude doing the Voice Over cannot BOTHER to learn how to say “Kogelo” properly, nor can the Media House bother to MAKE him.
I’ll [...]

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Kenya: Mother Tongue and Cultural Identity (on rotation

Kenya: Mother Tongue And Cultural Identity
The East African Standard (Nairobi)
http://www.eastandard.net/
OPINION
February 24, 2007
Posted to the web February 26, 2007

Egara Kabaji
Nairobi

The World Mother Tongue Day was marked on last week on Wednesday,
February 21. Unfortunately, there was no significant event organised
to mark the day in Kenya. The newspapers, radio and TV stations were
equally silent yet the question of [...]

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Poem

untitled
In Kenya where armies
of tires and rocks burning,
arrows and pangas bloody,
fight
to quench hate, renew apathy;
in Ukambani the wind blows at will, as usual,
kerosene is up, regardless, men and women
continue their pleas to their sky and God for rain.
Later in the starry darkness, they listen closely
to the radio for news of how much closer the
trouble has [...]

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Diabetes in Kenya

This Week in th East African: Kenya Diabetes market to hit $27m
By [...]

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The Fall

Broken concrete.
Hiding place of memory.
That which can be rebuilt.
The fall
is a dark red film to see through.
It colour’s everything that was
before. Shattered windows obscure,
dumb into silence. Their screams
reverberate and cut like frozen water.
They bruise, and do not clean.
The paths of evaporating tar
burnt and broken – perpetually
trembling – endure wrath faithfully.
Memory is eroded here, deleted.
We will [...]