rocking the craddle

The above video dramatic scenes and soundbites from a middle class neighbourhood in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi begs the question? Where is the male culprit?

ndoa ya mapenzi

Making the differences, in Africa

We join Bill Clinton in his latest trip to Africa to raise hope of families whose existence is threatened by the HIV/Aids scourge.

Picture: courtesy Bill Clinton Foundation

The Angst of Poverty

Courtesy- You Tube

In my country, Kenya, there is a sprawling low-income residential neighbourhood called Umoja, a Kiswahili word for unity. I was surprised to learn of another Umoja in US's east coast state of Florida where the predominantly poor black folks are in humdrum existence. Take a look.

Watch out when a politician goes Oscar

Photo: Michael Caulfield, WireImage.com

US former Vice-President and Democratic Party mandarin,Al Gore (left),shortly after his film, "An Inconvenient Truth" won the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature at the 79th Annual Academy.
There is certainly something fishy whenever politicians win oscars, trust me.

Korean Conundrum

The Economist jarred my mind with its analysis on the breakthrough of North Korea ‘nuclear talks’ involving America, Japan, Russia, China and South Korea
Why? Because in 1994, America talked North Korea out of its nuclear weapons programs only for Pyongyang to back-peddle.
Twelve years later, the world is being treated to the same circus. It is even more farcical this time round considering that all the six countries involved in the latest agreement have their own interests.
Take China for instance. I deduce from the analysis that Beijing delivered it's ally, North Korea, to the negotiation table more out of selfish reasons than genuine commitment to the stability in Korean Peninsula.
China game plan, I can argue, is to exploit it's friendship with North Korea and America’s desperation to garner US’s support in taming the rebellious Taiwan. And from looks of things, it seems China is the biggest winner, having America on its corner without compromising it's friendship with Pyongyang.
Japan, another regional power house and protagonist in the Korean Peninsula, may not just play along. North Korea is still holding a group of Japanese captives, an issue that has galvanized Japanese population against North Korea even as it's leadership play ball with America over North Korea disarmament.
Indications are that America, whose hands is already full with war in Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran’s nuclear threat, has little time for what is seemingly a diplomatic row between Japan and North Korea.
The Economist makes me believe that the more things change in Korean peninsula, the more they remain the same.

Ego Trip:Where the rubber miss the road!

Quite frankly I know not where the undated picture above was taken nor who took it but you will agree with me that it is worth a thousand words.It teases with its poignancy,and it tickles with its oddity.

So,if you dismiss it as crude,I hail it as artistic.If you see risk, I discern caution and if you call it scarcity,I call it abundance.You may even insist it is stagnation but I am convinced it is rural enterprise.This photo of a lorry,its load and a cow-teaches me a lesson:That there comes a time in life,when the mighty,must give way to the meek.

Quote of the week: "All I can do is pick up somebody's paper, read it, and look for signs of intelligent life." -anonymous college professor's banter to graduate students.