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.”
You’ve all seen the shenanigans that occurred at Climate Change summit on Copenhagen here is a chronicle of videos and facts that you may have missed or that the press simply didn’t present. However what remains that Developing countries especially African ones will find it difficult to develop going forward simply because they lack the [...]
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 [...]
Viewer Discretion is advised. Some of the scenes are disturbing.
AIDS, Inc. is a film about the multi-billion dollar AIDS industry, and how it profits from continuing fears and misconceptions about the disease. While AIDS grabs the headlines and raises billions of dollars with celebrity endorsements and billionaire endowments, we are no closer to finding a [...]
If one thought things could not go from bad to worse for Africans then am afraid one was grossly mistaken. The news coming out on world environmental day (June 5th 2009) painted a bleak if not scary picture for millions of Africans leave below the Sahara. Without the resources and human capacity required to meet [...]
This is an article written by my friend Kennedy Oduor. In it he gives his reasons why Kenya needs a dictator. I have some sympathy for what he says because if you look at the progress of Rwanda under President Kagame or Uganda under President Museveni it has been relatively more dramatic and more smooth [...]
I disagree heartily with the notion that Africa needs more economic AID to help spur its own economic growth. Indeed as evidence has clearly shown the last 50 years of economic AID have hardly helped any single country in Africa reach even middle income status. Furthermore the countries which have ignored economic AID like Malaysia [...]
The main problem with trying to ascertain whether it is low income or income distribution that results in poor health is that there are a number of confounding factors that should be investigated to determine the nature of the relationship. In fact many studies have shown that the relationship between income and health is not [...]
Parental divorce generally harms children significantly in the long term financially, psychologically, socially, physically and mentally. This due to these children lacking social capital, a term used to decribe social and emotional support systems that exist due to the existence of families within society (James Coleman). This is fundamentally because divorce involves the separation of [...]
Many theories have attempted to address the question why people cooperate by examining the roles individuals play in groups, circumstances and even controlled or programmed experiments that test for responses to action or inaction within the group. What is clear even in my own experience is that it is important for cooperation to exist simply [...]
Introduction
The age of marriage has changed drastically of the 20 century among women. An example given by Oppenheimer (1997) indicates that the single rates for women under 25 years rose from 14% in the 1960’s to 42% in the 1960’s. This suggest that either women have found a viable alternative to marriage before that age [...]
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