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• Percy Zvomuya Reviews Nairobi Heat by Mukoma wa Ngugi

  
  BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority: 134
  Verdict: carrot with reservations Ngugi has also blurred the margins in this intercontinental tale set in Wisconsin in the United States and in Kenya. An unidentified blonde woman is found murdered on the porch belonging to Joshua Hakizimana, a Rwandan professor who teaches genocide and testimony at a US ...
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• links for 2009-11-08

  
  GPS Comarison|GPS Reviews — Authority: 127
  NodeBoxNodeBox is a new software application for creating generative art using procedural graphics.(tags: apps coding data design tool toolkit tools python userexperience visualization userinterfaces)Physical Computing » Urban DefenderUrban Defender is a location-aware game that takes place in cities and towns. The ...
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• I’m ready to surrender to ICC, says Kenya PM Raila

  
  MajimboKenya.com — Authority: 126
  Kenya Prime Minister Raila Odinga answers questions during an interview in Nairobi. By Emeka-Mayaka Gekara, Citizen Correspondent, Nairobi Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Saturday declared he would surrender to the International Criminal Court (ICC) if prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo builds a strong case linking him to ...
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• Two bonfire night parties

  
  Africa Expat Wives Club — Authority: 117
  As a family, we went to two very different bonfire nights last week. The first was a truly KC event (Kenya Cowboys only) at the Karen Club. Although the vast majority of the club’s members are black Kenyan, in an act of self segregation that is typical in Karen only the expat/KC firework enthusiasts seem to go down ...
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• The World Social Forum, A Sustainable Model? Pierre Rousset

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 147
  In the past there was a lively interrelation between the Forum process, large anti-globalisation mobilisations, social struggles and international campaigns – a synergy that reached its peak with the mobilising and popularising role which the European forums (Florence, Italy) and global (Porto Alegre, Brazil) played ...
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• International Criminal Court Claims There is a Strong Case Against Kenya

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The International Criminal Court (ICC) chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo has disclosed that the Pre-Trial Chamber had been constituted in The Hague to establish whether to commence investigations in Kenya’s post-election violence. He said that he has a strong case against the masterminds behind last years post ...
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• Somali Government And Puntland to Cooperate on Security

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  The transitional federal government of Somalia (TFG) and the semi-autonomous regional state of Puntland have discussed ways to cooperate on security and the recruitment of the government’s new police forces. During a lengthy meeting at the Puntland presidential house in the regional capital of Garowe, both sides ...
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• Kenya Airways Launches Direct Flights to Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Kenya Airways has launched direct flights to Kisangani; the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The airline will operate three weekly flights every Monday, Thursday and Friday to the Bangoka International Airport. The introduction of flights to Kisangani brings to 47 the number of destinations that Kenya Airways flies ...
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• Obama’s half brother steps into spotlight

  
  Tadias Magazine — Authority: 127
  Above: President Obama’s half-brother Mark Okoth Obama Ndesandjo at press conference during an event to launch his new book Nairobi to Shenzhen in Guangzhou, China, on Nov. 4, 2009. His academic accomplishments parallel that of his older brother: he holds a bachelor’s degrees in physics and math from Brown ...
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• 5th MIM Pan-African Malaria Conference sets high expectations

  
  Global Health Ideas — Authority: 113
  In spite of heavy rains that slowed traffic to a crawl in Nairobi Monday morning, the 5th Multilateral Initiative on Malaria Pan-African Malaria Conference got off to a strong start. Wide ranging topics – everything from genetic mapping to eradication strategies to socioeconomic inequities of private insurance ...
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• Mungiki spokesman shot dead on Nairobi street by Mt Kenya Mafia?

  
  MajimboKenya.com — Authority: 126
  Mungiki spokesman shot dead on Kenyan street BY BERNARD MOMANYI The spokesman of the outlawed Mungiki sect, Njuguna Gitau, has been shot dead. Mr Gitau was shot in the head on Nairobi’s Luthuli Avenue, according to witnesses at the scene. They said he had been walking on the street with four men when an argument ...
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• Somalias Sufis organise in face of existential threat

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  On Thursday Somalias main Sufi movement Ahlu Sunna wal Jamaa wrapped up an unprecedented conference in Nairobi to strategise its response to the rise and radicalisation of the Shebab group.
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• Government of South Sudan Threatens to Boycott 2010 Presidential Elections

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Local media has reported that the government of South Sudan has threatened to boycott next year’s presidential elections over rigging claims by the North. The Head of Mission at the GoSS liaison office in Nairobi John Duku also sent a warning to the North that any attempt to interfere with the referendum in 2011 ...
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• Yes They Can [Snap Judgment]

  
  Jezebel — Authority: 825
  [Nairobi, November 4. Image via Getty ] Kenyans hold a procession on November 4, 2009 on the sidelines of the fifth Multilateral Initiative on Malaria conference in the Kenyan capital Nairobi to call for donor support in research and distribution of drugs to combat AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria. Chanting: Yes We ...
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• President Obama’s half brother Mark Ndesandjo writes a book

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Guangzhou, Nov 4 (THAINDIAN NEWS) President Barack Obama’s half brother Mark Ndesandjo has penned a new novel called “Nairobi to Shenzhen“. It is about domestic violence and is based on his father. It is said to be a semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent, loosely based on his own father.Mark Ndesandjo ...
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• Stevensonian Democratic Internationalist, Professor Richard N. Gardner, among the best that try to help the UN, and with Internationalist Environmental Credentials as well, says Copenhagen will be the stage where individual Nations will declare what they

  
  Sustainabilitank — Authority: 479
  Stevensonian Democratic Internationalist, Professor Richard N. Gardner, among the best that try to help the UN, and with Internationalist Environmental Credentials as well, says Copenhagen will be the stage where individual Nations will declare what they are ready to do to decrease their impact on climate change – ...
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• Meet President Obama’s Half Brother From China Mark Ndesandjo

  
  the.LIFE Files - "Welcome To Exclusiveness" — Authority: 639
  [ YouTube Link ] President Obama’s half-brother Mark Ndesandjo who looks just as smooth as Big O and lives in China is writing a novel called “Nairobi to Shenzhen” which is loosely based on his life with his dad Barack Obama Sr. and his mother Ruth Nidesand who was Obama Sr.’s third wife.  In the book ...
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• Obama’s half-brother releases a novel and tell’s of abusive father

  
  Book Case — Authority: 112
  US President Barack Obama’s half-brother Mark Ndesandjo has released his first novel, Nairobi to Shenzhen , which is about a man who is forced to confront his early experiences in Kenya and the United States after arriving in China in the wake of the September 11 attacks. At the launch in Southern China, where ...
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• Nairobi Heat’s Mukoma wa Ngugi on Kenya’s Troubled Political Scene

  
  Penguin SA — Authority: 129
  Author of the crime novel Nairobi Heat , Mukoma wa Ngugi has recently written an insigthful opinion piece on Kenya’s troubled political scene - and, in a broader sense, Africa’s: Finally in Kenya after a three year absence, I am alarmed. It feels like a ship whose cargo is a terrible future of violence has ...
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• OpenStreetMaps to Map Kenyan Slum

  
  Appfrica Appfrica | Africas Leading Source for Tech NewsTechnology, Business, Startups, Mobile, and the Web — Authority: 424
  Kiberia, Nairobi’s million-person slum, will be mapped in November through a project initiated by OpenStreetMap and Jump Start International. OpenStreetMap’s Humanitarian team will collaborate with young Kenyans to map the slum and share the results. From the press release (PDF) : Twelve young residents of ...
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