Send this article to Twitter!So, Kenya (after quietly watching a couple of tourists in Lamu get killed and/or kidnapped) finally decided to go into Somalia and…I”m not quite sure what they’re going to do exactly. Anyway, it’s pretty obvious that they are conducting this “mission” in Somalia with strong urging and backing from the...
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Send this article to Twitter!I was reading this story in the Nation and it got my attention because it involved the politics of land, the rule of law and the rights of ownership. In a nutshell, this is what happened: An Indian business family that used to live in Uganda had acquired quite a...
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Send this article to Twitter!I was having a discussion with someone the other day about the law and how it eventually grinds you down and catches up with you. The discussion was triggered as we were watching the news and just seeing all these people who (no matter how long it takes) who eventually...
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Send this article to Twitter!I’ve been paying attention to the news lately and all sorts of crazy and bizarre things have been happening. Earthquakes, Tsunami’s, wars, etc, etc. However, I suppose on another level, that has always been what the world was like and in this respect, I’d like to introduce my next topic,...
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Send this article to Twitter!I was going through the latest Wikileaks cables on Kenya and they have an interesting story on Nakumatt and it’s drug patrons (namely John Harun Mwau and William Kabogo). Now, I had been told a few years ago that Nakumatt was being funded with drug money so this latest Wikileaks...
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Send this article to Twitter!I was looking at Ocampo’s list of suspect and it confirmed to me (once again) why the west will simply never understand the politics of Africa. I don’t know why it’s so hard for westerners to understand “Africa”. I’ve always maintained that at their core, Africans are tribal people. The...
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Send this article to Twitter! I said previously that I’d be reading the Wikileaks cables on Kenya as they came out and writing about them here. Well, a few have been released so far and I’ve picked out the sections that I found either interesting or alarming. So, let’s begin by looking at them....
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Send this article to Twitter!I’ve mentioned the Wikileaks report here before and that column received a big yawn from the readers. The first time I mentioned it was in relation to the Kroll report, which had tracked about $4 billion dollars stolen by former president Moi and diverted into various bank accounts and properties...
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