Monthly Archives: January 2007

kisii music – anyone?

Hi,

I just came across your article about the “spotlight on kenyan music 2″ and your sentence: “So, the bottom line for me is that I shall check out more Kisii tunes in future.”

My wife is Kisii and we will …

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anything missing?

“Is there anything I can bring for you from Europe?”, this visitor asked me the other day. “Anything you miss?”.
I had a hard time thinking about what I could possibly miss, and only now I slowly realize what would …

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Nindagucookeria ngaatho…

A good way to finish a hectic day is to enjoy a few drinks with one of your colleagues who tells you about the old times – especially if that jamaa has been working all over Kenya during the …

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wapi? (part 12)

Yes, where is this? :-)

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Kapuscinski

Now what’s this? My dad isn’t even buried yet, and another man I really valued died earlier this week: polish author Ryszard Kapuscinski, famous for his travel stories from the 1960s Africa among many other interesting books. He was …

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