Dedan Kimathi “I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.”

Barack Obama “I think when you spread the wealth around it is good for everybody.”

Archive for ‘September, 2009’

Feature: Wahu Kagwi (5 Music Videos)

Wahu is a former model and University of Nairobi student, graduating in mathematics. She started her musical career in 2000. Her first three singles were “Niangalie”, “Esha” and “Liar”. Wahu released her first major hit, “Sitishiki” around 2005 . Her music has been produced by the Ogopa DJ’s . She is married to Nameless, another award-winning Kenyan musician. They have a [...]

Oxford University Social media conference

Social media marketing (SMM) gets a lot of press these days
– and companies are feeling pressure to jump on the bandwagon.
But if you’re like many marketers, you may be unclear
about the benefits of SMM and how, exactly, you should
use it to your best advantage. Without a clear strategy and
specific goals and objectives, SMM can be [...]

Electronic Money Wars: Zain vs Safaricom

Zain has recently launched international transfers (Zap Money) similar to western union that allows individuals to sent money from international accounts to local mobile phones in Kenya. Though this technology is a prospective game changer for e-commerce in East Africa, it remains to be seen whether mobile phone users will be ready to switch to [...]

Nation Media Group launches nsoko.com

Nation Media Group, East Africa’s largest Media group has launched Nsoko.com a classifieds websites that will allow users to post classified Advertisements selling motor, home rentals and business services. This move will ensure that the group continues to have leverage on Kenya’s growing internet market. The service joins other Kenyan classified services like Whive.com Classified [...]

Malawi’s food revolution.

Malawi under the Presidency of Bingu Wa Mutharika has been able to transform itself from a country in dire need of food aid in 2003 to a country that is now feeding its neighbours Zimbabwe and Mozambique. It also gives food donations to the World Food Program which sends food aid to countries like Kenya.
This [...]

Breaking News: Equity Bank Phising Site & scammers exposed

Equity Bank has become the latest victim of what is termed as Nigerean Fraud. Scammers are attempting to redivert Equity’s internet banking customers to the fraudulent website(which is an exact clone of the original EquityBank.co.ke albeit with a lower resolution) in order to grab clients banking details.
This suggests that the scammers have identified the Bank [...]

Africa’s Cultural Renaissance

Africa’s Cultural Renaissance

African governments finally agree to Protect Africas Cultural heritage. This is critical in empowering African communities to trade in cultural commodities as well as to protect cultural assets on an international scale. This is important because African artifacts have been stolen,pileaged and taken from the continent without a single penny reverting to the creators or [...]

Nigereans building a city on the sea

The Nigereans are building a new city on the sea adjacent to Lagos in order in create more office blocks as well as free up the thoroughly congested Central Business District. This is a positive step in one of the worlds most chaotic cities which is projected to be the 3rd largest city outside China [...]

When i die

When i die

When I Die…
When I die and life shall be no more
I’ll be standing at heaven’s portal door.
When I take my final breath.
When I close my eyes to death.
On the white pillow, they lay my head
Don’t feel sorry, pain or dread
For I’m no longer hurting now, as before
The timing of my death was in store
For it’s [...]

Branding Kenya

Well what is perceived by the word brand? Probably you are wondering where I am going with this. Well some months or years ago we had Tusker Supermarket a local self help store. The perception and reception by the public it was viewed as one of the underground local stores and unconfirmed sources said it [...]

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