Nairobi The ACORN Kenya community organizers, Sammy Ndirangu and David Musungu, met Judy Duncan, head organizer of ACORN Canada, Drummond Pike formerly of Tides and now colleague at Paladin Partners, and me just outside of the Korogocho mega-slum at 350,000 people, the 2nd largest in Nairobi after the more famous Kibera. We were to meet …
Author: wade
Watching Al Jazeera in Africa
Nairobi Al Jazeera was not the channel of choice for international news in Nairobi this trip over CNN or BBC, but it had become the only choice. Frankly, it was a valuable, fascinating, and worthwhile experience. It was actually more likable to hear American and Australian accents along with the British on Al Jazeera-English, and …
Stress and Bad Health in Poor Communities
Nairobi The cultural shift of time zones and airports between New Orleans and Nairobi might only add up to 8 hours forward and cooler, drier temperatures but going from True Grit on the United Airlines screens to all of the news now from Al Jazeera is a big change worth noting. Plane loads of lawyers …