Category Archives: style

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Bembeya, Rochereau et al

Ebay trouvaille – you won’t regret buying any of these plates!
Ive just come across this seller on Ebay Germany who apparently sells a lot of nice, old plates/records from the 1970s & Co musical Africa. So what’s so special …

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national rainbow co…

…itus interuptus.

P.S.: …für AndrĂ© & Astrid – enjoy! :-)

Posted in EAKenya, photography, style | 3 Comments

Nairobi lowdown

“The best of the City in the Sun” as promised by a (relatively) new blog: Nairobi Lowdown. This might also be of interest to those Kenyans in exile (“Exilkenianer”, as my friend Turbodave calls them) who always wanted to …

Posted in east africa, maisha, ngoma, style | 7 Comments

Pop-In

After entering Pop-In on Moi Avenue, Nairobi (Kenya), and asking the owner for kind permission to take pictures (“I like this place, the machines are sooo unique”….”ok, basi…”), I instantly realized why you, dear Steve, started doing “something with …

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Lifestyle, the Nakumatt way

Dear Diary,

today I’ve come across a nice bedroom set from Kenya’s leading discounter Nakumatt:

While I can well imagine a lot of customers falling for this kind of interior design for the simple lack of an own taste (or mabye …

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