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Send this article to Twitter!This is a documentary recounting the clownish and buffonish antics of Idi Amin dada. He once sent Nyerere a letter telling him that he loved him very much and that had Nyerere been a woman, he would have married him (inspite of the numerous white hairs on Nyerere’s head). However,...
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Send this article to Twitter!Here is a good speech by Yoweri Museveni making fun of Kenya’s illusion of democracy. Charity Ngilu doesn’t look very happy with him, but it’s a very interesting speech nonetheless. Key question posed: Can a country remain agricultural and be stable? Can an agricultural country ever solve the needs of...
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Send this article to Twitter!I was having a discussion last night about these Somali Pirates and how succesful they’ve been in terms of getting millions of dollars from the ships they’ve hijacked. I think so far, the Somali’s have gotten about $150 million dollars in cash! wow! Anyway, someone mentioned that Mombasa is about...
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Send this article to Twitter!Africa’s 2′s is a new phrase coined by by Vijay Mahajan that describes people who are not desperately poor (Africa’s 3′s) or obnoxiously rich (Africa’s 1′s) and the phrase is taken from this Washington Post Article on Africa’s rising middle classes. The article also has some interesting stats on Nakumatt’s...
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Send this article to Twitter!Uhuru getting tripped up again. He is asked about the exorbitant salaries that ministers and MP’s are making. He responds by saying that parliamentarians enacted it. So what? it’s still exorbitant. Uhuru then says it’s wrong that they are making that much, but goes on to try and defend it...
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Send this article to Twitter! I used to think that in Africa, the craziest, most violent people were Somali's. However, since I've spent the last weekend reading about Rwanda, I'd have to say that the Rwandese could actually be a close second and maybe even first. Strange story #1: When Juvenal Habryimana seized power...
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Send this article to Twitter! I said I was going to read this new book about Rwanda called: A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It. Anyway, I finished reading it this weekend and the book really confirmed what I have come to believe about present day Africa, which is, that...
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Send this article to Twitter!Every year, there are articles in the Kenyan papers about the whereabouts of the Rwandese genocide perpetrator, Felicien Kabuga. For years, people have believed that Kabuga was and probably still is, hiding somewhere in Kenya, but nobody can seem to find him. However, while Kabuga’s name is well known on...
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