Friday, August 29, 2008

Nairobi blogs

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Photo: Carnivore Most visitors think of getting out of Nairobi as fast as possible, or enduring the city if they're based there, and mak...
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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Scrap the lunatic line - here's another of those visions

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Now this is exciting, if it ever happens: Mombasa to Kampala in ten hours . It's part of Kenya Railways Vision 2050 (funny how the targe...

Restaurant prices in Kenya

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Kenya is experiencing the same price rises in fuel and commodities that are hitting all the world's poorest economies hardest – Restaura...

Slum TV in Mathare, Nairobi

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Interesting recent audio report from the BBC World Service about a new TV station in Nairobi's Mathare slum: SlumTV

Roots of the Rift Valley violence - Kalenjin and Kikuyu

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Land and water rights in the Rift Valley lie at the heart of the post-election violence. But there's something deeper and less material ...

Barack Obama slurred by link with Odinga slurred by link with Obama

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It's dig-the-dirt time again in American politics and Barack Obama , part Luo like Raila Odinga (but not Odinga's cousin in the Amer...
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Friday, May 23, 2008

Sustainable Mara

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It's all happening. . . An excellent initiative in the Maasai Mara: "The Mara Conservancy, a not-for-profit conservation management...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008

Return of tourism also benefits agricultural exporters

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It's not just the tourist industry that will benefit from the return of charter flights. Lake Victoria's Luo fishing communities de...

Mike Wooldridge on the future for Kenya

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Mike Wooldridge's thoughtful, if disturbing two-part series for Radio 4 is being repeated on the BBC World Service. Or is it the other w...

Virgin kicks off the return to Kenya

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Good to see Virgin Atlantic airlines helping to revive the Kenya tourist industry with a big UK press and underground poster campaign featur...
Monday, May 19, 2008

"Behind the Smile: the Tsunami of Tourism"

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Tourism Concern's brilliant photo essay, "Behind the Smile: the Tsunami of Tourism" , is back on the Tourism Concern site once...
Thursday, May 15, 2008

National Museum reopens in Nairobi

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Nairobi's national museum, the city's most important tourist attraction, and a good museum in its own right, has recently re-opened ...
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 ...