1. Today's discussion on Frantic 105

Nairobi city is abuzz this Monday morning. The matatus are filling to the brim as people head to their schools and places of work. The most popular station playing on the radios in the traffic moving at a nails space is Frantic 105 with breakfast...

Monday, 09 January 2012 | 520 hits | Read more

2. One man's view of the Storymoja Hay Festival 2011

The Storymoja Hay festival 2011 is the main thing on my mind this Friday as. As we wait to enjoy yet another weekend, the literary extravaganza that we saw in Nairobi over the last weekend past weekend still intrigues me. I haven't missed the...

Friday, 23 September 2011 | 2746 hits | 4 comments | Read more

3. 5 cool Kenyan artists on youtube

The one thing this blog has over many that have joined over the last few years is longevity. One of the posts I did in 2005 October was The Kapuka Connection. The thing is that at time there was a new wave of Kenyan urban music and I speculated that...

Thursday, 15 September 2011 | 2944 hits | 4 comments | Read more

4. Valentine reloaded and a few other reasons to cheer up (possibly)

Its not being the best few days has it? The news headlines have been just terrifying to say the very least. The city mortuary has been piling up with bodies from the horrific Sinai fire that has been making all the headlines. The images from that...

Wednesday, 14 September 2011 | 2938 hits | 2 comments | Read more

5. Kingwa Kamencu's Presidencial bid and ten links

What a cold colourless morning this one has been with all the drizzle and the cold weather. Then the Nairobi commute to town which has been acknowledged as one of the worst in the world was made even woret. No fun. So much has happened since I last...

Monday, 12 September 2011 | 3280 hits | 1 comment | Read more

6. Pillar Awards and Forbes nominations

Its not been so great weather wise huh? The weather this month decided to do some weirdly freaky and follow the weather patterns that we were taught about in school. As in the bible of everything on the Internet Wikipedia in Kenya, “The "long...

Tuesday, 06 September 2011 | 5266 hits | 5 comments | Read more

7. Friday links and tit bits

So I have just watched Vivian Cheruiyiot making mince meal of some Ethiopia in Daegu at the Athletics World Championship. He he. Those Ethiopians walikuwa wametuzoea sana (had gotten used to us). Eat that. Away from my joy at the creaming of the...

Friday, 02 September 2011 | 3326 hits | 4 comments | Read more

8. A bit of the old (Olorgesailie) and the new (Pepsi)

Last night I attended this lecture at the Kenya Museum Society by Dr. Richard Potts that had been dubbed event of the week by Kenyabuzz..com. We all know Kenyabuzz don't we? They are the guys who have been doing such a decent job listing events and...

Thursday, 01 September 2011 | 3030 hits | Read more

9. What is Android and a seminar for Generation Y'ers

So yesterday the good people Sony Erickson did a major press briefing at the Sankara in Westlands. I love the Sankara. Going up the flight of stairs to the first floor as this makes me feel very Michael Jackson in that Billie Jean video where he is...

Wednesday, 31 August 2011 | 3230 hits | Read more

10. Tragedy hits AIESEC International Congress in Kenya

Its not been the greatest August in Nairobi. As usual. Today Wambui Otieno lost her life in circumstances that are not clear as I write this blog. Another disaster his us this morning as the International Congress (IC) of AIESEC in Kenya saw a life...

Tuesday, 30 August 2011 | 4077 hits | 6 comments | Read more