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ICC Cricket World Cup 23rd Match

Kenya vs Canada is a 23rd match of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 and they belongs to... more

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Mike Huckabee: Obama Grew Up In Kenya

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says President Barack Obama's childhood in... more

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JR: The Compelling Street Art of a Guerrilla-Photograffeur

The illusive JR has pasted gigantic portraits all over the world, and the public still doesn’t know the artist’s full name. He insists on JR, which are his real initials. He refers to his performance-exhibitions as the mix of photography with graffiti art. His work involves showing up in a shantytown in Kenya or a favela in Brazil, a place where some event has been noted in the media and has captured his attention. His work turns it inside out, photographing the residents, then wrapping their buildings with the results, on a scale so vast that you can see their eyes from the sky.

Often he works through the night, and as soon as he’s done, he disappears; so when the installation becomes front-page news, there is no one left to explain it but the people whose voices had not been previously heard. As a woman from Kibera, a neighborhood in Nairobi, put it in Women Are Heroes, a documentary recently released in France that JR made about his work: “Photos can’t change the environment. But if people see me there, they’ll ask me: ‘Who are you? Where do you come from?’ And then I’m proud.”

JR’s collection of works entitled “Women Are Heroes” features a compelling and empowering style focused on the struggles of women in society today. JR was recently awarded the 2011 TED Prize for “Women Are Heroes.” At the age of 28, JR is the youngest recipient of the $100,000 prize.

JR’s latest project is “The Wrinkles of the City,” an installation of street pieces in Shanghai (and later, in other large cities). The project features images of the elderly, who represent the memory of the city. The photographs have been pasted up at locations that he feels speak to the heritage of a city that has definitely had its share of ups and downs, “from the Japanese occupation, the establishment of the Communist Party, The Liberation, World War II, the end of the foreign concessions, the victory of Mao Zedong over the General Tchang Kaï-Chek’s troops, the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward to the actual development of the city.“

This piece includes a number of high-resolution color photographs, a slide show and three documentary short films.

http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/jr-the-compellingly-powerful-street-art-of-a-guerrilla-photograffeur/The illusive JR has pasted gigantic portraits all over the world, and the public still... more

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Growing Valentine's Day roses harming Kenya's ecological site

Consumer appetite for cut-price Kenyan roses for Valentine's Day is... more

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Rhodesia Video

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Weekly Pulse: #DearJohn, Does Banning Abortion Trump Job Growth?

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Protesters Storm Park to Force Obama Out as Kenyan President

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Egypt and the waters of the Nile: is war inevitable?

Egypt is a country which does not have the luxury of abundant rains and therefore depends on the Nile for 90% of its sustenance. It is also the spiritual center for the people there as they believe the Gods sent floods during the time of the pharoahs which allowed them food and for the pharoahs to build their tombs. The waters of the great Nile were then seen by Egypt as belonging to no one but them. Religion and politics in the 21st century once again now stands in the way of an equitable agreement that will preserve the Nile's waters for all while also understanding it belongs to none.

Egypt's control of the Nile which amounts to 74% of its waters has been intact since the 1929 agreement with then colonial occupant Britain. This antiquated arrangement which gives Egypt access to the majority of the water simply cannot be sustained in modern times, yet Egypt's Mubarek and Bashir in Sudan have not budged in changing it. The agreement also calls for all upstream projects first needing the consent of Egypt and Sudan in order to go forward, however, Ethiopia which suffers from drought and sees the Blue Nile as sacred has challenged that by building dams for irrigation and a current larger hydropower dam.

Drought now plagues this area as well which has increased demand for water as well as greater demand for energy even though it has been noted that the Aswan Dam in Egypt has hurt the soil's health. Revenge tactics in now building an overabundance of dams that defeat the purpose of equitable sharing will not help any side in this if it does nothing to truly provide water to its people, especially in light of other factors such as climate change contributing to sea level rise.

Last May the upstream countries including Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Rwanda, and Ethiopia met giving Egypt and Sudan one year to give an answer regarding a more equitable sharing of the Nile's sacred waters. What could give them more clout in coming to an agreement is the independence vote in South Sudan which would see another country on their side in splitting Bashir's influence in Sudan.

There are many geopolitical angles taking shape regarding what has only amounted to a war of words to this point. It will then be interesting to see with South Sudan gaining independence along with the current events in Egypt how this all unfolds in perhaps now working to secure a fair and equitable agreement regarding the waters of the Nile while also respecting its history and sacred traditions in escaping what will otherwise be the beginning of the water wars of the 21st Century.Egypt is a country which does not have the luxury of abundant rains and therefore... more

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Mr. Obama: "Your Papers, Please!" - Webster Tarpley and Phil Berg

Alex talks with Author and researcher Webster Tarpley and attorney Phil Berg about... more

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2010 Kenya Advertising Spends Projection.

This link gives insights into Kenya Advertising Scene.

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MLB Slugger on Obama: "He was not born here."

Baltimore Orioles slugger Luke Scott has hit a foul ball directly at President Obama.... more

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Kenyan Premier Calls For Arrest of Gays

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Is C Street Winning?: Orders Given To Arrest Gays In Kenya

Prime Minister Raila Oldinga ordered a nationwide crackdown on gays in Kenya. He... more

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Surviving Floods, Droughts, and Poachers' Bullets to Save the Elephants | Photos

Photo: For four decades Iain Douglas-Hamilton has been an advocate for elephants, the... more

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Mama Hope

Mama Hope, a non profit organization here in San Francisco, shows that it's the... more

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College Appoints Dr. Kimotho as Ambassador to Republic of Kenya

Linda Christas College has announced the appointment of Dr. Sophia Kimotho as its... more

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Churches In Kenya Want Cabinet Minister Murugi Sacked Over Gay Remarks

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Kenya, African Union defend Bashir visit

Kenya and the African Union are defending a visit by Sudanese President Omar... more

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Elephant tusks, rhino horns seized in Kenya

Two suspects were arrested over the weekend after authorities found two tons of raw... more

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Making Do: Innovation in Kenya's Informal Economy

I have published a free book called Making Do, which investigates how attempts to... more

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