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Music is that which takes you to a place where only uncertainty prevails;. Yet anchoring you here. Kusambaratika - meaning wrecked in Kiswahili is a song composed and sung by Mutinda. Lyrics and melody: Mutinda. Producers: Mutinda and Abbi. Video-production: Big Ideas, Nairobi, Kenya. Filmed by: Willie Owusu. Produced by: metta metta ART. Music-production: Indigo Studios, Nairobi, Kenya. Video-production: Big Ideas, Nairobi Kenya. Filmed by: Willie Owusu. Produced by: metta metta ART. Web design by metta...
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Dressing the bench | Letters from Nairobi
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8221; →. February 5, 2012. Last year the Kenyan High Court got a new chief justice, Willy Mutunga, appointed by President Kibaki from a battery of candidates who were interviewed on television by the selection committee. Mutunga struck many Kenyans as a Hope candidate a la Obama someone who held the promise of integrity over impunity. Chatter about Mutunga’s earring (gasp! Clouded the interval from his interview through the swearing-in. Such adornment for the number one justice in the land? There’s also ...
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February | 2012 | Letters from Nairobi
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Monthly Archives: February 2012. February 18, 2012. Sunday mornings are the best for running. Everyone sleeps in and goes to church and church is hours long. Only the occasional car jets down State House Road. The weekday clusters of schoolgirls and laborers and secretaries are elsewhere, … Continue reading →. February 5, 2012. Thoughts on Kony 2012. Esther, Gladys and the kangas. Get new posts in your inbox. Join 23 other followers. Follow me on Twitter. Links to other sites about Kenya and East Africa.
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Esther, Gladys and the kangas | Letters from Nairobi
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Esther, Gladys and the kangas. August 28, 2011. Esther and her sister Gladys share a. Gladys shows off a kitenge in the shop she shares with her sister, Esther. Unlike kangas, kitenge are patterned all over, without a border or a saying. Esther and Gladys are tailors. They’ll make anything you ask them to. I drew them a couple of pictures, Esther took every possible measurement, and a few days later I had a couple of custom dresses, a skirt and a top, for about thirty bucks. A kanga: Helmeted Guinea Fowl.
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Newer posts →. September 18, 2011. Liz, the real estate agent, shuffled me around last August in search of a house. Something not so far from the office that I would be in the Jam (aka rush hour, which lasts approximately 6:30 am to 9 pm in Nairobi) less that two hours a day; somewhere Dan could set up office; and someplace that would take a large mutt and three-legged cat. Vicous attack dog Sophie models her bow-collar Esther the tailor made for her out of a kitenge scrap. Sophie was not a welcome tenant.
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May | 2012 | Letters from Nairobi
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Monthly Archives: May 2012. May 20, 2012. Most days on my way downtown, I walk past a tall man wearing a dirty sport coat carrying a polythene burlap trash bag. One of his knees caves inward to the other. His legs make the letter K. Sometimes a … Continue reading →. May 6, 2012. Thoughts on Kony 2012. Esther, Gladys and the kangas. Get new posts in your inbox. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 23 other followers. Follow me on Twitter.
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September | 2011 | Letters from Nairobi
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Monthly Archives: September 2011. September 18, 2011. Liz, the real estate agent, shuffled me around last August in search of a house. Something not so far from the office that I would be in the Jam (aka rush hour, which lasts approximately 6:30 am to 9 pm … Continue reading →. Thoughts on Kony 2012. Esther, Gladys and the kangas. Get new posts in your inbox. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 23 other followers. Follow me on Twitter.
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August | 2011 | Letters from Nairobi
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Monthly Archives: August 2011. Esther, Gladys and the kangas. August 28, 2011. Esther and her sister Gladys share a duka (shop) about the size of the average American dining room table. You get there by dodging the Somali men gesticulating at one another after 1:00 pm prayers, walking past Giggles ( delicious African … Continue reading →. Thoughts on Kony 2012. Esther, Gladys and the kangas. Get new posts in your inbox. Join 23 other followers. Follow me on Twitter. About birds of prey.
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The gap | Letters from Nairobi
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Golfing Limuru →. May 20, 2012. I say no and he continues up the hill, looking for recyclable garbage. Linda at a wedding. She was one of at least seven bridesmaids. Linda, our housekeeper, lives with Ian, her 11-month-old, in a single room sandwiched in a stone block of doorways. The bed takes up most of the space. She doesn’t have electricity or running water. Ian at 8 months. You still share power outages and coronary-inducing traffic jams with everyone else. But most of them don’t blink. The UN advis...
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