New Orleans I mentioned last week from Nairobi that one of the high points of the launch for ACORN Kenya involved a traditional ceremony where we planted trees to show that something new was being planted deeply, cared for seriously, and would grow strong over time. In our first crack at using a “flip camera,” …
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Kenya Campaigns Coming
Johannesburg Sitting here with a day to kill in the Joberg airport and ruing having just spent 75 rand for a special South African adapter so I can make it through and finding the young clerk at the “Electronics Megastore” joining me in commiseration that there was no free wireless anywhere in the airport, it …
Matatus
Nairobi If there’s public transportation in Nairobi, no one knows about it. There are matatus though by the hundreds. These are private mini-vans, jitney buses, and even larger buses that hog the roads and rule the roost. They seem to be semi-regulated, which means that in certain areas in downtown Nairobi a driver will hide …