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I’m proud to be Kenyan, and I’ll say it out loud, thank you.

When Rodgers Rop turned to Christopher Cheboich, Francis Kiprop and Mbarak Hussein, to hurry up and catch up and take the memorable photo finish at the 2002 Boston marathon, winning more than 20 seconds ahead of the rest, every Kenyan, who watched it, including myself, felt like a winner. In the pub where I was …

bear your soul… and so i did

bear your soul ”my dear friend, bear your soul bleed the blood root of your pain you have nothing but to gain a heart that is whole..” So read the verse, And so I did. For the first time in my entire life, I got up strolled to the great wall that surrounds my …

kiswahili cha tukuzwa kweli?

Nimekua nikiwaza kwamba hii lugha yetu pengine imedidimia kiasi kwamba hakuna atakae ijibu blogi hii. Aghalabu ni kwamba kiswahili sanifu hakizungumzwi tena humu nchini na hata nadra zaidi huko ulaya. Nivipi hivi sisi wana-nyayo tumekipuuza kiswahili kama ambae hatukukisoma? Katika kazi yangu nimeona biashara kadhaa ambazo nina maono kwamba ni biashara za kesho. Kunazo zile …

Get moving on ICT, Kenya

By Al Kags The World Economic Forum in conjunction with the INSEAD institute every year compiles a ranking of countries that measures “the degree of preparedness of a nation of community to participate in and benefit from ICT developments.” This year’s ranking was published in The African Report, a thoroughly insightful quarterly magazine. Tanzania was …

Wanted: Kenyan Publishing Agent

Preferably white, old, part of old boy’s clubs in the UK (an Ol’ chappy) and the US (an Ol’ Boy), male (duh!?) and ready to try out a new “exotic” writer’s market. Or so I was told at the last Kwani? writer’s forum that I attended. It was a great time and I got to …

I am a writer first and foremost. I am passionate about social entrepreneurship, which I define by finding ways to innovate the world’s processes to make life better for people – whether in business or in the non-profit sector. I am professionally involved at the Open Institute, Thellesi Co and various agricultural ventures.