Text: Khalil Gibran. The Prophet.
And a man said, Speak to us of Self-Knowledge.
And he answered saying:
Your hearts know in silence the secrets of the days and the nights.
But your ears thirst for the sound of your heart’s knowledge.
You would know in words that which you have always known in thought.
You would touch with your fingers [...]
Attendees at the Kenya ICT Board Tandaa Symposium on online local content held at the iHub in Nairobi.
A woman in a blue buibui dress walks down a path in Soy, Kenya near Eldoret.
A woman walks home from a market in Rongai.
Friends share a picnic meal at a park in Jinja, Uganda
A bodaboda rider’s expression as reflected on his side mirror.
Food is such a unifying force and the power of a meal amongst strangers is uniquely energising. That is the concept of canteen culture and the idea behind this unique resort in Kenya.
Ghandi puts it more wisely….
“I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your [...]
A girl at a market in Maili Tisi on the outskirts of Eldoret Town.
CONGOLESE BANDS IN EAST AFRICA
The 1970s through mid-80s was the era of Congolese expatriate bands in Nairobi: groups like Boma Liwanza of Shango Lola, Les Kinois of Samba Mapangala, Super Mazembe of Longwa Didos, and Les Mangelepa of Bwammy wa Lumwona (who had come East with Baba Gaston and [...]
Land in northern Ghana to produce ethanol for export to Sweden
Posted by NGO News Africa on: Monday, December 21, 2009
Large tracts of land in the northern part of Ghana will be used to cultivate sugarcane for the production of ethanol for export to Sweden, the GNA has reported the Vice President as saying. The [...]
Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day
Don’t look now
I’m fading away
Into the gray of my mornings
Or the blues of every night
Is it that my nails
keep breaking
Or maybe the corn
on my second little piggy
Things keep popping out
on my face
or
of my life
It seems no matter [...]
A man refuels his car at a petrol station in Soy as a bodaboda driver shares a conversation with a woman.
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