| The 3rd World |
 | "The 3rd World"
The tapping of sewing machines drones on hour after hour as logos from all across the world find their place onto the cloth of a faceless country. As unit after unit pass through the machines the clank of the needles is interrupted by the scream of a young boy.
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| What is America to me? Thoughts on the US Presidential elections |
 | What is America to me? Thoughts on the US Presidential elections
Countee Cullen, a black American poet, once asked: What is Africa to me?
With the US elections just days away, and Africans holding their breath, fingers mostly crossed for Senator Barack Obama, I find I have to reverse the question and ask: What is America to me?
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| Changing Kisumu: the Asian exodus |
Changing Kisumu: The Asian exodus
As we descended into Kisumu
last month, I tried to imagine what it was like during the post-election
violence.
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Foreign Imprints on Afrikan Souls
It is not once that foreign names possessed by Afrikans have been condemned by those who see the importance of culture in maintaining and protecting a people’s dignity. Personally, these lines of thought regarding cultural nationalism find a welcome home in my mind. Herein I will strive to explain my stance.
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| Voluntourism is Exploitation |
Voluntourism is Exploitation
Two weeks ago, I was one of a group of about 16 meeting in Kibera to review the success of a few development projects and look for a variety of ways to get involved.
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| Are you Middle Class? |
 | Are you middle class?
In
a recent bout here at the KenyaImagine place, we debated whether or not class
boundaries in the old country had shut.
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| Segue |
 | Segue
Irony.
I saw Chinese soldiers on Segways preparing for the Olympics and
stifled a laugh. Stifling a laugh is pretty much the same as
suppressing a sneeze.
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| What is the value of the African woman? |
What is the value of the African woman?
The
aforementioned question aims at critically examining how the identity
of the African woman has been constructed by political, economic,
social and cultural institutions both at the global and local level.
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| Conceptions of Justice |
 | Conceptions of Justice
Lately, and very promisingly, Kenyans have been asserting rights against various manifestations of official excesses, demanding adherence to duly enacted provisions and laws, whence springs our current fascination with the Merchant of the Grand Regency, a.k.a. the ambiguously honourable Amos Kimunya, and our varying predispositions as to how to treat those accused of involvement in post-election violence as per the amnesty debate.
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| The cane and our culture of violence |
 | The cane and our culture of violence
Recent reports in the national papers, declared to the shock of many commentators of a liberal disposition that a good number of Kenyans believe that the banning of caning of students in schools has led to deterioration in discipline standards.
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 | Behind the veil
I live in the land of the veil. A veil which insists on hiding the
beauty of diversity. I insist on seeing the beauty, so I keep finding
myself beyond the veil, alternately alone or with a few defiant souls who might not quite see things my way.
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The romance of scars and scabs
I'm not a fan of anything classified even remotely as romantic: not in the traditional sense and most certainly not in any interpretation given reference to under modern thought and meaning. I don't read the books or listen to the music and it's more than once that I've dozed through a movie which presented an usually persistent exchange of oral fluid.
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"Happy to be nappy?"
Lots of feathers were ruffled in the USA, and loud aggressive twittering was heared in branches of the US media forest, due to some radio comments which we will not quote or reproduce verbatim here.
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A Case for an afro-centric culture
Africa is home to the
Egyptian civilisation, the earliest
civilization on earth. It is also the home of the Ethiopian, and Ghanaian
empires. Our early society was characterized by complex art, religion,
technology and political systems.
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| A panacea for Kenyan crime |
A panacea for Kenyan crime.
Brute Force! To many, that seems to be the panacea against the current crime wave that has hit the country.
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| Affairs at the workplace |
Affairs at the Workplace
It is common knowledge that an office affair can have a detrimental effect on your career and on the dynamics of the workplace in general.
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All I Want for Christmas
We at kenyaimagine have always thought books, movies and music were the very best of presents at Christmas. We thought we'd make an open thread and round off the year with a free-for all on what we have been reading and what would we recommend for others.
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| Employees Frat with Boss |
Employees Who Curry Favour With the Boss
In any organization, enterprise or work place there are two types of employees. One group tries to distance itself from the powers that be, the boss. The employees in the other group try as much as they can to be recognized by the boss.
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