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Quick hits

– Want to be part of a new way of thinking about development insteading of just ranting about Jeffrey Sachs et. al. Apply to be an Acumen Fellow (deadline Feb 17). Acumen has projects in Kenya and Tanzania among other places.

– Biopiracy in Africa. Click here for the full report. Via East African!

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February 15th, 2006 | Category: Africa, Miscellany | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Binyavinga on tour

The Kenyan author of the instant classic “How to Write About Africa” and founding editor of Kwani will be doing a series of readings in the U.S. the next two weeks, please catch him if you can:

Africa is too large and diverse for generalisations. It has 54 nations, 5 time zones, at least […]

February 12th, 2006 | Category: Kenya, Miscellany | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)

Quick hits

– You gotta listen to this guy’s music. Really.

– Wireless Networking in the Developing World. A practical guide to planning building low-cost telecommunications infrastructure. This is excellent, excellent, excellent. A quick review this initiative can be found here.

– Africa needs more people like this who are willing to think outside the […]

February 5th, 2006 | Category: Africa, Geekery, Miscellany, Steelers | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

Global Voices Conference

For those you are interested in following the discussion, the event will be webcast here.

Still not ‘getting’ London…I keep feeling like I’m getting jacked every time I open my wallet. How do you UK-based folks survive in this place? So far the only redeeming things about the city are good sandwiches/sandwich shops, English […]

December 9th, 2005 | Category: Global Voices, Miscellany | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

Kenyan Pundit turns two!!

Actually this is a little belated. I’ve been been at this for a little over two years (some of my my earliest posts). Still can’t believe I’m going.

I’ll take this moment to send out a special request to my readers and Kenyan bloggers who are based in Nairobi . Are you interested in helping […]

December 8th, 2005 | Category: Kenya, Miscellany | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)

Woohoo!

I passed the bar!!!!!

November 6th, 2005 | Category: Miscellany | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)

Apologies…

for being derelict. I’ve been battling a nasty cold that’s left me feeling completely lethargic while at the same time trying to absorb Poptech and take care of business. I guess flying from this to this can screw you up. Plus I had laryngitis (running my mouth too much at Poptech). All I can say […]

October 29th, 2005 | Category: Miscellany, Poptech | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)
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