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A Helping Hand

A Helping Hand

A young boy assists his friend with some luggage in the outskirts of Eldoret Town.

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Return From the Market

Return From the Market

A woman walks home from a market in Rongai.

Tomatoes and Onions

Tomatoes and Onions

A young woman sells tomatoes and onions at an outdoor market in Maili Tisa near Eldoret Town.

The Grain Merchant

The Grain Merchant

A woman sells grain at a market in Kiminini, Western Kenya.

The Merchant’s Cave

The Merchant’s Cave

Kenya is a veritable Aladdin’s cave for shoppers.

Kenyan products include traditional artefacts, jewelry, coffee, cloth and art. Baskets are always popular and they vary in design throughout Kenya. The carvings you see use different styles around Kenya. Lamu is famous for furniture carving. Wood carvings of animals are found in Wakamba in the Eastern part [...]

What An Ass

What An Ass

A donkey stands by the roadside in Kiminini, Western Kenya after a downpour.

Pushing Loads

Pushing Loads

Two men transport produce on their bicycles on the outskirt of Nakuru Town as children play in the background.

Bustling Jinja Market

Bustling Jinja Market

Shoppers browse, haggle and select their wares at a market in Jinja, Uganda.

Technology for Islam

Technology for Islam

Jan 22nd. 2010: Ringtones violate the sanctity of the holy text: Mufti

Egypt fatwa bans Quranic cell phone ringtones

Egypt’s Grand Mufti issued a fatwa that prohibits the use of Quranic verses or the call for prayers as ringtones on the basis that they show lack of respect, according to a copy of the fatwa text obtained [...]

The Messenger

The Messenger

Choruses from “The Rock”, 1934.

By T S Eliot

O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and  impure heart, for the heart is deceitful above all things, and   desperately wicked.

Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite and Geshem  the Arabian: were doubtless men of public spirit and zeal.

Preserve me from the enemy who [...]

The Overarching Bleakness

The Overarching Bleakness

The Overarching Bleakness

Life is often bleak and people are often cruel. This is what Samuel Beckett understood and he used words to punctuate the stream of events in our often grimy lives. Sometimes there are no words to be said and Beckett is “The Master of you can’t say anymore”.

We are all just going through [...]

Return from the Market

Return from the Market

As work progressively makes do without human life, so it ceases to make human life its ultimate end, that is, to bother with mankind.

Man has never been as unhappy as now, when he is acccumulating so much.

Nowhere is he so despised as where this accumulation is taking place. That is why the history [...]

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