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Violence Against Women : We can do more than tweet
On last weeks post on Nation’s Newsplex, we featured an analytics post on the perception of women issues on social media. The link to the post can be found here: https://www.nation.co.ke/newsplex/onlinegendercampaigns/2718262-5368756-fpvkmz/index.html
The Kilimani You Didn’t Know About
Kilimani ward in Nairobi may have an interesting origin to its name. The operation meaning of Kilimani derives from the Kamba word ‘Kilima’ which mean mountain, i.e Kilima-mbogo (the mountain of Buffaloes) and Kilima-njaro (the mountain of greatness). Thence, Kilimani means higher ground. However, a piece of history may offer a different meaning and origin. ...
The Kilimani You Didn't Know About
Kilimani ward in Nairobi may have an interesting origin to its name. The operation meaning of Kilimani derives from the Kamba word ‘Kilima’ which mean mountain, i.e Kilima-mbogo (the mountain of Buffaloes) and Kilima-njaro (the mountain of greatness). Thence, Kilimani means higher ground. However, a piece of history may offer a different meaning and origin. ...
10 Intriguing Kenyan Patents
Research by Chris Orwa, Write-up by Owaahh Data sourced from CIPIT Special thanks to IP Kenya The idea behind patenting is to make sure you own the rights to something if it ever becomes a commercial success. If there’s money involved, Kenyans are definitely likely to be on it. But most ideas never make it ...
Tracking An Entrepreneur: Kenya’s 80’s Millionaire
I love rhumba music, that’s how I stumbled on the website Congo in Kenya, an impressive genealogy of Congolese musicians working in East Africa in the 70’s and 80’s. But what captured my imagination was a photo (shown below) of a membership ticket to The Starlight Club in Milimani, by then a heaven for performing ...
Tracking An Entrepreneur: Kenya's 80's Millionaire
I love rhumba music, that’s how I stumbled on the website Congo in Kenya, an impressive genealogy of Congolese musicians working in East Africa in the 70’s and 80’s. But what captured my imagination was a photo (shown below) of a membership ticket to The Starlight Club in Milimani, by then a heaven for performing ...
Stereotypes of a Black Male
Are you Caucasian, Latina, Asian? It doesn’t matter, you have an opinion of what a black man is or is suppose to be. And by black I mean any person with skin pigmentation on the darkest side of the color spectrum regardless of where they call home. In India, there is a tribe referred to as the ...
A Mental Trip to Afghanistan
Kabul has to be the most dangerous place to live in in the Eastern hemisphere. Drugs, automatic weapons, sectarian violence and not to forget the mother of them all, religious intolerance. Rocket propelled grenades fly across the city like the Boeing planes from our airports (you may want to read about life expectancy and mortality ...
The Afghan Kryptonite Heroin
If you are a drug dealer or a user, you’ll acknowledge the verve of Afghan sourced heroin, it beats all concoction of drugs, Jamaican marijuana soaked in petrol got nothing on it. This is proving to be a problem for the government of Afghanistan where 25% of the population is hooked on opium. On the ...
Crawling out of Closed Mind
I must admit, I’ve never been a people person, the nerd in me always calls for introversion and perhaps a callous attitude towards meaningless interactions. Some witty philosophers gave this “defect” a name — the atomistic mindset. A view which sees man not as part of society but rather as an isolated organism of which society is ...
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