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Stepping Down as Ushahidi Executive Director 24 Dec 2010 | 07:38 am
It is almost 3 years to the day that I sent out a plea to Kenyan bloggers and techies to help me build what would become Ushahidi. Since then it has been a crazy ride…from producing an incredible ope...
And yet another post on women in tech 1 Oct 2010 | 04:58 am
The recent “Women in Tech” (disaster) panel at Techcrunch reminded me of a long overdue post I’ve been wanting to write on the absence-of- women-in-tech debate that’s being doing the rounds over the l...
On Greece and the Kenyan economy (well sort of) 27 Sep 2010 | 11:35 am
I’ve just finished reading a fascinating article in Open Democracy about the collapse of the Greek economy and what it will take to fix it. While Greece and Kenya are fundamentally different countries...
Those with Nothing? 25 Jul 2010 | 09:42 pm
So I was busy admiring the photographs taken by Jessica Hilltout in the NYTimes that are part of her book, Amen, where she explores “grassroots soccer” where “the beautiful game exists in its purest f...
On Loving Football 9 Jun 2010 | 10:52 pm
If you’ve been following my tweets lately you can tell that World Cup fever has set in for me. And it’s not just because I’m living in Johannesburg. I’ve had a long love affair with football thanks t...
ICC sees African Women Counsel 21 May 2010 | 07:24 pm
[please share] Last week the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the International Bar Association (IBA) jointly launched a six-month campaign to increase the number of women lawyers authorised to...
Kwani Call for Submissions – The Africa I Live In 18 May 2010 | 07:00 pm
Kwani Trust invites you to submit short stories of between 3000-8000 WORDS, that focus on Africa and the experiences of African people, with a particular focus on Africans born after 1978. The theme...
African Entrepreneurs You Should Know 9 May 2010 | 12:08 pm
I spent the last few days at the World Economic Forum Africa in Dar-es-Salaam. The larger plenary sessions mainly comprised of platitudes and a restating of the challenges facing Africa – I think the ...
Survey: Africa in Higher Education 22 Apr 2010 | 11:37 am
Dear KP readers, please help out Natasha, a University of Cape Town Ph.D. student conducting survey on African Studies/ Africana / Diaspora / Carribbean Studies in institutions of higher education. Sh...
On Kibera, flying toilets and poop. 15 Apr 2010 | 03:59 am
I have been wanting to write this for a while now. Especially after I read about Peepoo: a biodegradable plastic bag that acts as a single-use toilet for urban slums in the developing world. Inspired ...
