The tracks that feature here are those whose lyrical content and music videos gives the audience a real feel of Nairobi. The songs are essentially Nairobi City guide but in the non-traditional sense. They are about stuff that we do. Stuff that any tourist to
Nairobians love their drink. Could be a cultural thing or just collective escapism from living in an African city faced with the varagities of being on the shot-end of neo-liberalism. But that’s not the story for today. There are loads of songs about partying in
Full text of the statement by eight senior Nation Media Group columnists who withdrew their columns from the East African media powerhouse over infringement of media freedoms in Kenya. One of the NMG columnists involved, Prof Nic Cheeseman (@Fromagehomme), summarizes the global reasons behind the
Easter is here once again and I feel all gooey inside. Easter remains my favorite Christian holiday as unlike Christmas, the symbolism of the occasion remains palpable, less blemished by commercialization. For my family, our nuclear setup, this Christian holiday is an intimate moment. We
While the tactics – bombing,tagging – remain rooted in the oft castigated methods of the last century’s street art that earned this form of expressionism its bad boy tag, graffiti art in the 21st century is mainstream. You’ll be hard pressed to find an oxymoron
Soon after I enrolled as a graduate student at Cambridge University in 1964, I encountered a fellow student, two years ahead of me in his studies, who was unsteady on his feet and spoke with great difficulty. This was Stephen Hawking. He had recently been
We continue to map developments in Chinese knowledge economy. Having covered the world’s fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-2, the 15 day long unmanned Space Odessey, Shenzhou 10, we take a dive with autonomous submersible vehicle Qianlong-2. But first, a report on Qianlong-2 that we carried in 2013,
Tianhe- 2, is built entirely on intel processors but with Chinese design and operating system. Observers paint the Tianhe – 2 as a shift that is indicative of the inevitable future. a future buttressed by leaps in the Chinese Knowledge economy. Monday 17th July
