The Whitney Soundtrack
Whitney Houston died on February 11, 2012. What does it mean to lose the soundtrack to one’s life?
Kenya
50 Cent goes to Somalia
So rapper 50 Cent (accompanied by American journalists) was in Somalia and Kenya this week to
Trouble at the Global Fund
What’s going on at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB & Malaria (GFATM)? It recently
Dances with Samburu
The Samburu of northern Kenya are pastoralists, and they are under attack. According to Survival International,
Kenya Independence Day
Three Kenyan videos to remember today’s Independence Day. Three popular tunes for our Independence meme. A
TV Heads
‘Kichwateli’ (‘TV head’ < Swahili) is one of the many chapters in the BLNRB project. Contributors
In Praise of Wangari Maathai
Maathai, who died this week, stood up to the dictatorship of Daniel Arap Moi, and the global regimes of the IMF, the World Bank and all the rest.
From Nairobi to Berlin
Over the last two years, the NRBLN – BLNRB project has brought together German and Kenyan
Nicholas Kristof Saves Another Woman
In The New York Times columnit's world, Kenya is just another Third World site of pathos, despair, degradation, and fallen women waiting to be saved.
The Real Maids of Beirut
The vast majority of domestic workers in the Middle East are migrant workers. A fair number are from Africa, particularly Kenya and Ethiopia.
Muthoni The Drummer Queen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywfyv5fdgM4 Your Music Break: from Nairobi. Via Kate Bomz
The Gay Judges in Kenya*
South Africa has an openly gay Judge serving on its highest court, The Constitutional Court. The
'For the Africans in the Diaspora'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkDVUVosSgA From somewhere in American suburbia, the very frank, at times trite The Ten Minute Fix,
Soccer Soap Opera
Who are the Kenyans who needed a soap opera as an impetus to change their attitudes about political violence and why did they need it?
Shabazz Palaces and Kahlil Joseph
Although the effect of blending the music by Shabazz Palaces and the images of documentary-in-the-making Tough
The American President's Mother
Reporter Janny Scott in The New York Times, and the author of “A Singular Woman: The
Nairobi in April
Writer Mike Pflanz and photographer Brendan Bannon’s new site Daily Dispatches: Nairobi “… is an innovative
Snake Oil
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKOwDQcPwbs Selling desperate people false hope, especially AIDS patients, are common on the African continent–well documented
There shall be satire for all
Recently Al Jazeera English’s media review show, Listening Post, did a breathless profile of South African
'Shaka Zulu'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikxZvvETnPE Not sure what to make of the video. The video was filmed “in Africa.” Kage