Thursday, April 10, 2008

This is rare. . .

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The trial has started of two policemen accused of murdering two demonstrators in Kisumu in January. It's rare that the police go on tri...
Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Elgon – stay away

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One area of Kenya you don't want to be wandering around in at the moment is Mount Elgon. The Sabaot Land Defence Force are a particularl...
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Castle Forest Lodge and Karen Blixen Camp

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Map detail from Rough Guide Kenya & Northern Tanzania map Castle Forest Lodge up on the southern slopes of Mount Kenya (on p.179) is no...
Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Kenya fuel price rises. . .

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. . .and inflation passes 20 percent and ranges up to 30 percent regionally. If you're driving in Kenya, expect to be paying around Ksh1...

Kenyan authors and publishers losing out, and students losing out even more

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Book piracy is a worldwide problem, but particularly acute where there are hundreds of thousands of school students, most of whom don't ...

Kenya gets live football on TV

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Live Kenyan football on TV ? Is this going to come to Setanta? That would be fun. . . And wouldn't cost them an arm and a leg right now...

Cradle of Man trail?

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An interesting editorial in Nairobi's Business Daily pushing the idea of tourism in the Lake Turkana region. It's true that it'...

Kikoi "brand" threatened by British company

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This is annoying: why would a British company happily trading with Kenya, importing the popular woven kikoi cloths (the sarong-style wraps ...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Chinese tourists come to Kenya

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An interesting report in Business Daily . With China's usual (outside Olympic years) censorship of the media, perhaps the market there i...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

"Trees for Peace" - a letter from Petra Allmendinger, Mount Kenya

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Dear Environmental Friends, This month's meeting will be coming up on Friday, the 28th of March. We had already two previous meetings t...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Upper Hill Campsite has moved

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Mark Fairweather emails news about Upper Hill Campsite (p.119): "The campsite is closing on Saturday 1st March 2008 and re-locating to ...
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Kitui and Nzambani rock

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A nice email from Peace Corps volunteer Nick Demille , based in Kajiado in Maasai-land, about a recent trip in the Akamba country, east of ...
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Kenya: anyone got a vision?

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What a disaster. What a self-inflicted nightmare. There's too much to say and too much backstory already for any sort of "commentar...
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Saturday, September 22, 2007

Kenya Vision 2030

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Does Kenya need Vision 2030, its strategic plan for the next 23 years? Or would 2020 vision be more useful? From Thursday's "Busi...
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Friday, June 29, 2007

Gallery's vigango no longer for sale?

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A sign of the times? A prominent Boston gallery has removed most indications that it's selling a collection of Vigango (Mijikenda memor...
Tuesday, June 26, 2007

Mijikenda grave posts returned

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It's a tragedy how many of these vigango memorial posts have ended up in galleries and private collections in European and North Americ...
Friday, June 15, 2007

Would you run here?

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We didn't run at Il Ngwesi , but we were quite happy to walk here, through the thick bush, with our American friends, and our six kids a...

Do the Maasai have insurance against elephant attack?

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It was a terrible accident and I hope Lewa and its supporters have the funds to meet their legal responsibilities. But even if the final se...
Monday, June 11, 2007

This certainly does. . .

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It's hard to imagine today's explosion had any connection with Mungiki. Some Islamic extremist cell seems more likely. Either way,...
Thursday, June 07, 2007

Does this have an impact on tourism?

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The Mungiki murders and police shootings will leave a lot of people outside Kenya confused – these events are hardly headline news in Europe...