Category Archives: politics

Mbuzitwins

Just as ministers in governments inevitably think of a self-service store once they are in power, the following picture – aptly named "mbuzi twins" – might cause my kenyan readers to think of nyama and nyama mtoto. …

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an apple a day…

Top Quality Fruit from China (yeah, right…) …keeps the Chinese away? WRONG! While searching for my supper in a local supermarket here in GERMANY I came across these crates full of (old) apples from CHINA. OMG! …

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Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-RESPONSE? (DPSIR)

Interesting to note that a recent opinion poll on Kenya’s Daily Nation newspaper website reveals that out of 3085 votes, 52,9% of all voters think that the Government of Kenya is RESPONSIBLE for the current famine in parts of …

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ODM’s inheritance

"Kenyans are mostly unaware that ministers have little control over the workings of their ministries and are small cogs in the general running of the government which is dominated by State House officials, including of course Cabinet Secretary Francis …

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Ihr geht alle in die Medien

Irgendwo im Stapel der noch-zu-lesenden-Zeitungsartikel fand ich heute im Feuilleton der FAZ vom 8. Mai 2004 einen interessanten Artikel ("Ihr geht alle in die Medien", von Jürgen Kaube) über die Versprechen deutscher Hochschulen, mit denen StudienanfängerInnen in die neuen …

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