In just over a decade, Boniface Mwangi has risen from poverty to prominence in Kenya. He is renowned for his powerful photographs and his courageous protests calling for social justice. However, little is known about the man himself. UnBounded is a collection of engaging personal stories that takes us through some of the people, places [...]
This past April, Rwanda marked the solemn 20th anniversary of the genocide that led to the deaths of over 800,000 Rwandans, mostly from the Tutsi tribe. It has led to a reassessment of the gains the continent has made in terms of conflict resolution and prevention, and the verdict, unfortunately, is damning. While direct conflicts, such as [...]
The motherland is reeling. What with Boko Haram causing havoc in Northern Nigeria and Al Shabaab turning what was previously idyllic Kenya into a hotbed of daily killings. The northern part of the continent is still feeling the after-effects of the Arab Spring, and while the south lays relatively unscathed the potential for terrorism spreading [...]
A few weeks ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) gave a damning report on the future of the entire globe. The world is getting hotter. The report says that average man temperature of the world will go up by 4 degrees. This may not sound like much, but the implications are enormous. The [...]
One day, he said, he would write about this place. And the local boy came good. This is a new review of a two year old masterpiece that is surely going to come under renewed scrutiny, with Binyavanga Wainaina leaving the closet in a most Binyavanga-ish way, announcing to his mother that he is a [...]
You will not put this book down once you open the first page!! A must read for: Book lovers, Historians, All Kenyans young and old, East Africans. Raila Odinga story is the Story of Kenya, the story of East Africa.
Bart Joseph Kibati, who started dreaming as a schoolboy of becoming a James Bond-type intelligence agent and rose to become the Deputy Director of Intelligence with the notorious Special Branch, tells all in his first ever memoir by a top-level Kenyan spymaster. This book is a must read for historians, political scientists, journalists, [...]
Who is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you’ll earn over a lifetime? How would we know? Why—beyond the idle curiosity—do these questions even matter? In The Haves and the Have-Nots, Branko Milanovic, one of the world’s leading experts on wealth, poverty, and the gap [...]
Publication Date: August 19, 2011 ISBN-10: 0415885892 ISBN-13: 978-0415885898 Edition: 1 Food Supply Chain Management: Economic, Social and Environmental Perspectives is very different from parts supply chain management as can be seen from the increasing health, safety and environmental concerns that are increasingly garnering the public’s attention about different food supply chain problems. Food [...]
Publisher: Vintage; Vintage Books ed edition (February 12, 1962) ISBN-13: 978-0394702100 Besides its continuing value for an understanding of the problems of Kenya, Facing Mount Kenya has an enduring place in the literature of social anthropology. As Professor Malinowski wrote in his introduction, it ‘is a really competent and instructive contribution to African ethnography by [...]
