Kenyan blog watch
AllAfrica has placed a blogger at the home of Obama’s paternal family in Kogelo, Kenya. She writes
3.30 pm East African Time (8 hours ahead of Eastern time, U.S.): A prayer service for Barack Obama is now underway in Kogelo. Prayers have been offered for Obama’s maternal grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, who died of cancer on Monday.
Dunham is often referred to here as “our grandmother” and at a press briefing from the Obama homestead, Malik Abango, Obama’s half-brother, described her as “close” family….
Learning Kenyanese wishes Good Luck Obama (Good Luck K’ Ogello) !
I am PROUD to be associated with Barack Obama and wish him the best of luck in OUR campaign to change the world as we know it, and prove that colour is irrelevant as regards leadership…
Viola’s Iris writes
As much as I don’t feel the whole Obama mania I guess it would be a shame to let this day go without a post from me. Here is to the greatest day on earth… when a Kenyan American becomes the first black President of the biggest nation on earth…
Non-US election Kenyan blogging continues, of course, even now. Let’s Explore has observations about the reasons an SMS provider failed.
1. Sasanet showed no love. I just admitted to you that I deeply loved sasanet when I first came across it. They got that part right. But what did they do next? They went ahead and killed my trust in them. One day I was sending free texts and the next day, without much in the way of a notification, I found out that I had to pay for something I used to get for free. As I said before, paying isn’t the problem. The problem is sasanet’s approach. Why did you make me believe that I could count on you to always get free sms? If sasanet’s original intention was to eventually charge for sms then they should have made that known at the onset! It would have gone a long way into keeping my trust in them….
AWF blog writes about the evacuation of the staff of the International Gorilla Conservation Program from the DR Congo.
Odegle Nyang has some questions about demolitions and good roads.
What do you make of the demolitions of the buildings along thika road? The government says they must be pulled down to pave way for 10 lane superhighway. tres bien. But does it show that the government has finally decided to act on illegal allocations or does it mean someone is not thinking out of the box? Who said that a thika road must pass through Thika Road (???) i mean must we expand the current one? why cant we just put new thinking into it and do a completely new road through somewhere else?
But if you have driven to Nakuru in the recent past then you would appreciate the goodness of a well done road….
Joyce Chimbi writes about sexual violence survivors awaiting justice.
“The report by Waki Commission is unprecedented in many ways, in that for the first time in Kenyan history; sexual crimes have not only been acknowledged but also given the prominence that they deserve.
The report makes grave revelations regarding sexual crimes by indicating that they were “under-reported, under-investigated and insufficiently addressed.” …
UPDATE: OK, this has to rate as one of Obama’s least surprising newspaper endorsements, but Kenya’s leading paper did endorse Obama for president. There’s also a Kenyan reggae video for Obama.