Ngwatilo

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. [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

This Week in th East African: Kenya Diabetes market to hit $27m By DAGI KIMANI Special Correspondent The market for diabetes medicines and diagnostic tests in Kenya will hit $26.8 million in the next four years, according to market consultancy firm Frost & Sullivan. In 2006, the firm says, the diabetes market in Kenya stood [...]

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 [...]