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Tackling women’s right to inherit property

One of the challenges of addressing women’s rights issues in places like Kenya is that the obstacles are largely cultural rather than legal, or rather the more practical solutions require engagement at a cultural level rather than via the courts/the law. I was very tangentially involved with this project, and I’m linking to it because […]

Madaraka Day / Kenya Bloggers Day

In honor of “celebrating the nation that unites us as bloggers” the KBW admin team has proposed that we dedicate Madaraka Day to “a post on any or all of the following suggested topics: Kenya, Being Kenyan, Being a Kenyan blogger, or Being a member of KBW. The post can be a piece of prose […]

Parliament’s legislative agenda

Kenya’s parliament resumed today. We posted the lengthy legislative agenda for the upcoming year over at Mzalendo, along with commentary on the bills where we could locate anything. Over the next few months, we hope to incorporate a bill tracker on to the site and introduce features that will allow Mzalendo users to discuss the […]

Mzalendo addendum

Please help support Mzalendo by linking to it and giving us free much-needed PR. Hat tip Kikuyumoja!

Edit: Tagline as per Bankelele’s request – Keeping An Eye on the Kenyan Parliament or Kenyan Parliament Watch (or Eye on Robbers hehehe).

Mzalendo!

It’s still VERY much in beta and a work in progress,but I think it’s time to reveal one of the things that I and one Thinker have been working on in the last couple of months. Mzalendo. You’ve all read my rants about the lack of access to information about Kenyan parliamentarians, and this is […]

Quick hits

– Hash get’s his manifesto published (Yeah!).

– For those people who are thinking about doing projects in Africa and Kenya in particular, please read this report by MIT students who were recently working on several projects. Why? First, it shows that you can have your cake AND eat it (M’s post notwithstanding). Being […]

We Media conference

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 […]

The Sexual Offenses Bill

So I’m writing this very warily because I normally have a standing policy of doing things well or not at all, and I can’t address this issue as well I’d like right now because I’m juggling like twenty thousand things BUT I have to say at least something so here goes and hopefully I’ll have […]