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#The Real Africa
27 July 2015 3:05 AM ISTAfrica, the destitute ridden continent, where misery never ends and humans are monkeys or worse?! And the only images that come to you are that of...
What’s not inside out?
22 Feb 2015 8:33 AM IST“How can I not blame him, when he is really responsible for this mess? It is because of him that I am suffering! I don’t have to change. You don’t see...
Naivasha Thorns
22 Feb 2015 6:58 AM ISTCan peace bloom where London’s no.1 roses do?Naivasha thrives on agriculture, especially horticulture, making it the centre of a multi-billion-dollar...
How black is Niger delta?
25 Jan 2015 7:17 AM ISTI always thought ‘Oil’ means ‘Money’ then I read Oil on Water. With his 3rd novel published by Penguin in 2011, Nigerian writer Helon Habila has...
Ebola waned, but so did human bonds
23 Nov 2014 6:22 AM ISTHow would you assess the impact of Ebola in the entire African region, particularly the 3 most affected countries?Ebola outbreak was declared in March...
Will we handle or do we crumble?
23 Nov 2014 4:19 AM ISTEbola was first identified in 1976, in Democratic Republic of Congo; if it was not unfamiliar why was the world caught unawares?Of course it was only...
‘Ariko’, Rwanda has arrived!
20 Oct 2014 2:54 AM IST‘This is Rwanda. Expect more!’ - the tone is set in the introductory chapter. The book opens to a foreword by Joseph W. Saunders, CEO of Visa Inc. who...
Rwanda now: The skyscraper and the chicken
20 Oct 2014 2:48 AM ISTAlright, it is not from very long ago but hasn’t Rwanda traversed that hell, determined now to become a middle-income country, ushering in unity? It...
And that was the end of the beginning of that
15 Sept 2014 2:19 AM ISTThis short story by a Nobel winning literary giant pricks bang on the ultimate slumbered call – ‘what would I regret not doing if I were to die today…...
It only beats Africa!
28 July 2014 3:44 AM ISTI wonder if I had to buy this one from a local bookstore, which section would I be scouting for it. Travel? History? Classics? Non-fiction? Well, even...
They tend to qualify but then disintegrate!
28 July 2014 3:38 AM ISTAfrica could not hold together post the 16-group. What really went wrong? Lets take the African countries one by one. The most disappointing was...
Ethiopian: Now Boarding
28 July 2014 3:24 AM ISTEthiopian Airlines is the biggest in African continent. How does it compete with Kenyan Airways?Yes, Ethiopian is the biggest airlines in Africa and...