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Dear Santa (Redoux)
Please give my best to the Mrs. and all your cool elvy guys and gals! I hope the past year has left you well and happy. May you be blessed! I send this note in hopes of convincing you that it wasn't I that hacked into your "Naughty or Nice" files. The dastardly deed belongs to another. (Ask Scooter Libby or look in the computer of that crazy Estonian guy, Siim!) |
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' People Voting With their Feet! '
(Resistance is Futile!)
DNA scientists have pretty much proven humans first migrated out of Africa, and split in two basic groups. The first slowly "lumbarred" to Euro-Asia, t... |
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Medal for John
John didn't want the bloody medal. He wanted to forget New Guinea and the War. |
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Australia's Secret Independence
Australia gained Independence on the 11th December 1931 when the British Parliament passed the Statute of Westminster. It’s a sad fact that most Australians reading that statement will be gaining the knowledge for the first time. It’s like finding out your father was once in prison, it’s a secret and has to be covered up. |
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EPHEMERA From POOR LUE August ‘05
It’s said that chickens still come home to roost, well - a bunch of little birdies (NO, not the kind that Vijay & Tiger shoot) came to tell me the latest news, which I relate to you here: |
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KENYA - What more do you want?
All right, let’s get it out in the open right from the start – I’m biased. I love Kenya, and I love Kenyans. In fact, if I ever meet the member of the American Embassy security staff who wrote an entry for an information website for potential expatriates which started with the words: “Most Kenyans smell and they can’t speak English,” I’ll … well, he’s probably bigger and tougher than me, so let’s just leave it at that vague, uncommitted elision. |
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The Karamonjong Tribe of Uganda
The Karamojong tribe, one of few African tribes that have continued to live in an 18th century lifestyle have continued with barbaric acts of raiding their neighbours (tribes) and gone on practicing this at the expense of their own clan members.
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What's in a Name?
When the first truly democratic election in South Africa in 1994 was won by the African National Congress (ANC) and Nelson Mandela stepped into the Presidential position after many long years of isolation on Robben Island, everyone was pretty sure that things were set for a big change. But none expected to go to bed in one place and wake up in another Yet millions did. |
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Monthly Music
Smooth, delicate and very poppy, The Delays are the latest in a line of British bands, including Franz Ferdinand and Keane, hoping to bring rock back to the forefront of the UK music scene. Their debut album, Faded Seaside Glamour is truly one of the unexpected dbuts albums this year. Filled with sugar-laden hooks and harmony driven brilliance, it provides much needed blasts of summer. Their influences range from 60s bands such as The Hollies, to early 80s pop and through to the current post-Strokes garage sound of their contemporaries. All of these combine superbly to create one of the most unforgettable dbuts of the year. |
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An African Student in Sweden
Have you even been to a totally different place - where everything was completely different from anything youve known? I had no experience with airplanes, cold winters, snow, and the first running tubes. I was exhilarated to get there and see it all form myself.
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Charlize brings her award home
I didn't get to meet her in person but her presence in the country could be felt no matter where you were in this beautiful land. |
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Three wives and a Score of children, the African way ...
Imagine having several women you are required to call "Mother," not because they gave birth to you, but because each is your fathers wife. According to the African tradition of polygamy, this makes every one of them your mother. |
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Fathers of the Funk!
And because one could easily feel it in the soul, music becomes the expressive platform. More so nothing has really been lost ever since African Americans finally got delivered by the sacrificing of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. These were felled in the sixties, when the likes of James Brown, The godfather of Soul and Fela Anikulapokuti, Nigeria's King of Afro-Beat founded their pervasive music idioms. |
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The Attempted Empowerment of Women in Kenya
Cause I'm just a girl, little ol' me
Don't let me out of your sight
I'm just a girl, all pretty and petite
So don't let me have any rights
Oh...I've had it up to here!
(No Doubt- Im Just a Girl)
Like all children, Emily Jeptoo, a standard three pupil in Koroto, has a dream, When I grow up I want to be a doctor. she claims. How realistic a dream this is remains to be seen.
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The Pearl of Africa
The sun is shining to its deem at the west, the clouds clear enough to see the beauty of the sky, turning the water into clear shining blue, the weather and the temperature is all a resting mind needs to be treated with in the summer. |
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A Few Carry the Flag...
Excitement went unabated as Ray Power 100.5 FM came on air in 1993, so followed by Minaj Broadcast International as a counter to its television arm, African Independent Television. But these heralds of private media broadcast ownership just like their prints counterparts have not in any way changed the lot of the Nigerian journalist nor producers. Even as it would have served the purpose of their owners in self aggrandisement or ill-prepared venturesomeness; and there remains the social impact that media people are doing a good job guarding popular interest therefore ensuring social accountability. |
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