"Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation."
IBM’s choice of Kenya for its African research lab is not the end of private-sector tech investment for other countries, says Linda Nordling. Kenya’s claim to being Africa’s leader in information and communication technologies (ICT) got a boost last month, when IBM announced it would place its first African research lab in the country’s capital Nairobi.
NAIROBI – Water scarcity is fuelling deadly inter-ethnic wars that continue to claim lives in Kenya, according to government officials. And if nothing is done to educate communities on how to conserve the valuable resource, the situation will escalate, governance experts and environmentalists warn.
On Sunday, Sep. 9, 38 people were killed in revenge attacks in the Tana River Delta district of Kenya’s Coast province. The deceased include eight children, five women, 16 men, and nine police officers.
Nairobi, Kenya — Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere now says Sunday’s grenade attack at a church in Ngara was carried out by a known Al Shabaab terrorist. Iteere says the attacker who goes by the alias ‘Amar’ was in Kismayu, Somalia, last year but returned to Kenya early this year.
Filmmaker Amirah Tajdin and her producer sister Wafa Tajdin are currently working on their first feature, titled “Walls of Leila”, and are running a Kickstarter campaign to help launch their production.
The city of Nairobi generates over 2,800 metric tonnes of waste every day, twenty per cent being plastic. Now an innovative solution is turning plastic waste into a re-usable product and also helping keep the environment green.
In June 2009, the Italian priest Father Kizito was accused by three young men and a boy of being a pedophile. One year and half later, Mrs. Alice Ondieki, Deputy Prosecuting Counsel in the Kenya Attorney General’s Chambers, writes to the Director of the Criminal Investigations in Nairobi: “there is no sufficient evidence to prosecute the suspect“.
Ory Okolloh, the Executive Director of Ushahidi , is from Kenya but currently lives in Johannesburg. Her blog is "outlet for her opinions. While it is primarily focused on Kenya, she reserves to write about whatever she wants."
Sokari Ekine is a Nigerian social justice activist living in Spain, with a background in technology, gender issues and human rights. She is interested in creating a community of grassroots African bloggers as a way for Africans to exchange ideas, share experiences and tell their own stories in our own words.
Native of Cape Town, Sean Jacobs lives in Brooklyn, New York and teaches in Manhattan. He obsesses about the relationship between politics and popular culture, but the main rationale for his blog is to comment on what passes for media coverage of the African continent.
Rosebelle Kagumire is an experienced Ugandan Journalist. She won the best Journalist blogger English category at the Panos hosted competition in 2009. Currently she is a student of MA. Media, Conflict and Peace studies at University for Peace (UPEACE), Costa Rica.
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