Kenyan Pundit

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I was one of the speakers during the Africa session. Wilfred Kiboro was also one of the panelists and it was quite interesting to hear him wax eloquently about how the Nation was all about new media and how their main problem was lack of trained journalists (or did I hear him wrong?? I hate listening to my voice on audio, so haven’t verified. I tried to ask him whether he could honestly claim that they are no unemployed potentially great journalists in Kenya but didn’t have the chance).

The conversation bounced around quite a bit and it ended up not being as substantive as I expected it to be. I did, however, manage to use the word crap in a sentence. My first instinct was to use bullshit, but I quickly censored myself. Listen on here and here.

Kenyan Pundit won the award for best political blog. To everyone who nominated me, voted for me, encouraged me to keep going, THANK YOU!!! And congratulations to all the other nominees and winners…the KBW is testament to the (underacknowledged and often hidden) vibrancy and talent that Kenya holds, and for me always a source of optimism when the rubbish that permeates Kenyan politics gets me down.

AOB: I haven’t been doing much “punditing” lately because I have been tied up with several projects, but hope to remedy that soon enough.

The VERY first official Kenyan bloggers meetup was in December 2003 at ka-Choi and was attended by two bloggers - myself and Unganisha. He was the only person blogging from Nairobi at the time. Back then I’d search Technorati and Google every single day for new Kenyan blogs to add to my blog roll. Now I can’t even keep up with the Kenya Unlimited aggregator. Good stuff eh? Now go vote. (voting restricted to KBW members)…I could use the Kshs 20.06

Here are the categories for which I’ve been nominated:

And because I’ve been around since tene..

First, the Nigerian blogosphere was recently featured in the mainstream press. And the Washington Post featured Sudanese rebels who are running their rebellions via blogs. Then Thinker and other Kenyan bloggers get profiled in the Standard (with proper attribution and all!) courtesy of this post.

AOB: Mtaa FM.