Kenyan Pundit

Those of you who were following my blogging from TED 2006 can now get a much better sense of the TED experience (which is coming to Africa next June!)

Via the TEDTalks website, “Each year, TED hosts some of the world’s most fascinating people: Trusted voices and convention-breaking mavericks, icons and geniuses. The talks they deliver have had had such a great impact, we thought they deserved a wider audience. So now, for the first time, we’re sharing them with the world at large… Each week, we’ll release a new talk to inspire, intrigue and awaken the imagination. For best effect, plan to listen to at least three, start to finish. (They have a cumulative effect.) If you have a curious soul and an open mind, we think you’ll be hooked.”

The six talks that have been posted up so far (you can either watch video or listen to the podcasts) were among my favorites. If I had to pick two must-listens, I’d recommend Majora Carter for sheer INSPIRATION and Sir Ken Robinson because he reminded me of the joys of learning and because I dream for the day when we will see creative learning encouraged in schools across Africa. And Hans Rosling you gotta watch, not listen. His graphics were amazing. And David Pogue who writes a tech column for the NY Times was funny.

OK, just check all of them out

(fantastic job June!).

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Recently read a quote that urges you to distrust people who use the word impossible or something along those lines. Do I believe that Ghana can komonga Brazil? Absolutely.

Meanwhile, Koranteng has a great post on Ghana vs. the US
and only 400 Ghanians will be in the stadium thanks to Schengen visa restrictions.

AOB: Christian Science Monitor discovers the khanga.

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1) Get installed as an elder and immediately declare I’m running for President.

2) Make Michuki’s (s)hit list. Full ad can be seen here.

AOB: Given the latest TI-Kenya saga, can Gladwell Otieno come out of her fox-hole and do some whistle blowing, this business of having access to storos and then sitting on them is unacceptable.

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- Wizzy (leveraging locality) , neat program that allows wikipedia to be used offline in schools that can’t afford to be online all the time. Also check out their linux thin clients and the digital courier that allows “delayed surfing.”

- Black Stars shining on and off the pitch.

- Blogging Africa’s World Cup (and yes I have World Cup fever).

AOB: It’s possible for a woman to enjoy soccer independently. Really. So all you folks who stumble upon me watching soccer with the guys 1) I’m enjoying myself tremendously for real so don’t woishee me; 2) No I did not discover soccer concurrently with some guy; 3) Yes, I actually do know what’s going on… in fact I was a soccer fan long before you could spell football and there are pictures in the Nation archives of mini-me in my Adidas track suit welcoming back the AFC Leopards from winning the East and Central Africa championship to prove it.

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