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• Video: Kanjii Mbugua & Tapiwa Mugadza - "Push On"

  Posted: August 30, 2010, 5:27 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Bupe feat. Cii - "Dance"

  Posted: August 24, 2010, 11:42 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Kenyan Pundit on CNN's African Voices

  Posted: August 24, 2010, 10:59 pm by KenyaChristian

  Kenyan technologist, lawyer and blogger Ory Okolloh talks about how the internet can change stereotypes about Africa.
  
  

  
  

• Lauryn Hill - "Repercussions"

  Posted: August 21, 2010, 7:33 pm by KenyaChristian

  This is a re-up post.I'm posting it again cause the song seems to have charted on Billboard 100,and I'm not even sure it was meant to be an official single To me it sounds like a previously unreleased track from maybe early 2000s or Miseducation period. It's not an outstanding song, but it's good. Let's hope there's more where this came from.
  
  
  
  Lauryn Hill - "Repercussions"

  
  

• Maker Faire Africa @ UON

  Posted: August 21, 2010, 6:27 pm by KenyaChristian

  The aim is to identify, spur and support local innovation. At the same time, Maker Faire Africa would seek to imbue creative types in science and technology with an appreciation of fabrication and by default manufacturing. The long-term interest here is to cultivate an endogenous manufacturing base that supplies innovative products in response to market needs.
  
   Date: 27th - 28th August, 2010
  
  
  Venue: University of Nairobi Main Campus
  
  Entry: Free
  
  Check out the full programme here

  
  

• His Spoken Word Album Launch

  Posted: August 21, 2010, 5:46 pm by KenyaChristian

   The launch of the Christian spoken word album, featuring poets like Specyfyd, Pepe Haze, Nzilani, Number 8, X-Po among others. Come and support this! Brought to you by Mad Love Lounge and Full House Ent.

  Date: Saturday, August 28th 2010
  
  Venue: Kenya National Archives
  
  Time: 4pm - 8pm
  
  Entrance: Ksh 300 (Advance Ksh.250 available at Keswick Bookshops or call 0720791604)
  

  
  

• Video: Urban Kool Documentary (trailer)

  Posted: August 16, 2010, 8:44 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

  A documentary film on urban youth culture in Nairobi through the decades, and a new approach to youth consumer engagement – Branded Entertainment.

  
  
  
  Check out more here

  
  

• Video: Suite For Ma Dukes Orchestra - "Untitled/Fantastic"

  Posted: August 14, 2010, 4:43 pm by KenyaChristian

  From the Suite for Ma Dukes EP, which is an orchestral project interpreting music of the late legendary hiphop producer J Dilla.
  
  
  
  
  Listen: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson & The Suite for Ma Dukes Orchestra – Untitled/Fantastic
  
  *Yeah this is a re-up post. The other video wasn't the best

  
  

• Level 3:16 - "Do My Do"(acoustic)

  Posted: August 14, 2010, 2:40 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Nneka on AOL's The Boombox

  Posted: August 11, 2010, 10:43 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Janelle Monae - "Cold War"

  Posted: August 9, 2010, 10:44 pm by KenyaChristian

  She's..different. The world needs different right now.
  
  

  
  

• Video: Trip Lee - "The Invasion (Hero)"

  Posted: August 9, 2010, 10:15 pm by KenyaChristian

  Liking the concept of this, hope we can get more creative video's in Christian rap
  
  

  
  

• Jin - "Angels"

  Posted: August 9, 2010, 10:13 pm by KenyaChristian

  If you've never heard of Jin, he is is a former battle rapper and Ruff Ryders artist.
  
  

  
  

• Video: Fela! - "Water No Get Enemy"

  Posted: August 7, 2010, 5:32 pm by KenyaChristian

  Another clip from the musical, which I wish would tour Africa. But even then I guess ticket prices would be out of reach for most.
  
  

  "Water No Get Enemy" from FELA! Original Broadway Cast Recording from Fela Kuti on Vimeo.

  
  

• James Baldwin & Africa-America

  Posted: August 6, 2010, 8:42 pm by KenyaChristian

  Here are some interesting video's featuring writer/activist/essayist James Baldwin I've been checking out over at Black Looks. I'm really getting more interested in his work after watching these video's. He is highly intelligent and perceptive about human nature, psychology and racism. I have a keen interest in the African-American experience and I regularly read blogs like The Root, thus I find these videos fascinating. African-Americans have so much potential to be a great and unique people, but there are things that hold them back (I think mostly self-inflicted.) I still have hope Barack Obama's presidency could be a turning point in their history.
  
  "Take this Hammer"
  
  Take This Hammer from Brendan Nee on Vimeo.
  "I've always known that I'm not a n*gger..but if I am not the n*gger.. and if it's true that your invention reveals you, then who is the n*gger?"

  
  

• Video: Wyclef Jean "If I Was President"

  Posted: August 6, 2010, 7:34 pm by KenyaChristian

  I say go for it Wyclef, why not? Brush the haters off, what have they done to help Haiti all this time? Wyclef definitely has a passion for his birthplace, Haiti. I support his bid..yeah, there. the world is changing..
  
  
  
  Wyclef to stand for Haiti President

  
  

• Video: Astar - "Adios"

  Posted: August 4, 2010, 6:05 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Kuweni Serious! - "If This Country Burns, We Burn With It"

  Posted: August 4, 2010, 6:01 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  
  

  There is a difference between the one who rents a house, and the one who owns a house. The one who rents a house doesn't care if the walls crack and crumble, they can always move to another house. The one who owns a house knows that no one else will take care of it, thus they paint the walls and mend the cracks. More than 60% of Kenya's population consists of young men and women like us. The problem is that we behave like tenants of Kenya. We have let the older generation tear this country apart. We have let them use us to fight their battles. We have let them loot this country. We have let them fool us into thinking that we're not fit to run this country ourselves. So we hide in our alcohol, in our religions and on the Internet as if there is some other Kenya out there that we shall move to when this one crumbles. We sit at home and wait for others to fight for us on the streets. We want green cards instead of voter's cards. We are angry, but we are too scared to do anything about it. It is not Obama's job to save this country. It is not the donors' job, and the government has shown that it is not their job, either. Responsibility is not shared, it is earned. Freedom is not given, it is taken. When we decide we want freedom, we will have to get it ourselves. Because if this country burns, we burn with it.

  
  

• Some thoughts on our journey to a new constitution

  Posted: August 2, 2010, 1:51 am by KenyaChristian

  Some thoughts on our journey to a new constitution
  
  So, we have come as Kenyans to a crossroads and make no mistake, it is a defining moment in our nation’s history.
  
  With the manner in which some so-called leaders are acting one wonders if we live in the same country, but their stance is very understandable. Don’t be fooled, the main leaders of the No campaign William Ruto and Daniel Moi are only concerned about land and power. They are very worried that the big province of Rift Valley will be split into devolved counties. This is unacceptable to them, they have been the lords of this province for a long time.  With this power, they(especially the latter) have or at least attempted since 1991, to cow other ethnicities who live in this province into toeing their line. People like to say that Kenya has been a haven of peace in a troubled region, but that is true only if you have been willfully blind for the past 20 years. I am still in my 20’s, but since I was young I have been very aware of what has been happening in this country. Many people my age are sadly ignorant of our recent past. The former regime and president were actively engaged in a brutal system of ethnic cleansing in the Rift Valley, and other places like Coast and Western Province. The message had always been, if you don’t toe the KANU line, you will suffer and be brutalized and marginalized. Tribal clashes didn’t begin in 2007, goodness no! They have been a regular feature in the 1992,1997 and 2007 elections. Tribes that were seen to be in the opposition mainly in Central and Western, Nyanza Province were “taught a lesson” through economic, political and physical marginalization.  Thousands and thousands of Kenyans have been slaughtered on Kenyans soil because of their rejection of dictatorship, tribalism and corruption.
  
  We took a wrong turn as Kenyans during independence when the foundation of our nation was built on betrayal. Unfortunately the Kenyatta regime sold out and betrayed the freedom fighters went ahead to engage in tribalism, nepotism and exploitation. Although the economy grew the gap between the rich and poor grew to exponential proportions. Leaders could see the bad way things were going. One Josiah Mwangi Kariuki (a great Kenyan) was brutally murdered by Kenyatta’s men for daring to challenge his regime. This showed how brutal and intolerant Kenya’s leader’s had become.
  
  There is a long trail of blood of other Kenyans who have suffered and died because of a rotten power system. People like Tom Mboya, Robert Ouko, Pio Gama Pinto, Father Kaiser, Julie Ward to name but a few. Many more were tortured just below the street as Kenyans went about their usual lives. Yes, the Nyayo Torture chambers saw alot of brutality from the hands of sadists like Hezekiah Oyugi. Victims had nails and hair pulled out, private parts ,burnt with cigarette butts, made to stand in freezing water and beaten with broken chairs and sometimes shot.
  
  It is in the memory of such Kenyans ( there are thousands more unknown and unnamed) that I will wake early on Wednesday to cast my vote. I will vote a emphatic Yes in the memory of freedom fighters like Wangari Maathai, Paul Muite, Kenneth Matiba and Rev.Timothy Njoya. These are Kenyans who stood up in defiance of a oppressive govt. at a time when you watched what you said lest the special Branch snatched you and delivered you to a torture chamber. We have yearned and fought for this moment in our history. Is the constitution perfect, of course not, nothing man-made is perfect. But it is progressive, it brings power to the people, it prevents a future leader from engaging in imperialism, it gives Kenyan women a chance to take part in leadership and be considered equal, it brings checks and balances in the power structure, it enables land injustices to be dealt with, it ensures free speech, movement and assembly. It protects our precious environment., it recognizes the diversity of Kenyans. It is simply put one of the most progressive constitutions in Africa and indeed the world.
  
  All I can say is please think about where we have come from as a country, think about where we are and where we are all crying out to be as a people and as a nation. The journey will not be over after the 4th, it will have just entered a new phase and we must remain vigilant a s a people.
  
  I am proud of you Kenyans, we have proved that we are a people of hope, perseverance and faith despite the challenges we have faced that would crush a lesser people. I am very encouraged by the unity and spirit we are displaying as a country. This is a great tiem to eb alive in kenya, this is truly historic,a  turning point.
  
  Say Yes for the destiny that Kenya is meant to fulfill. This is a blessed moment.
  
  God bless Kenya.

  
  

• Wamathai II @ Secrets Lounge

  Posted: July 28, 2010, 9:19 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  Venue: Secrets Lounge, View PArk Towers, NairobiDate: Thursday, Aug 5th 2010Time: 7:00 pm till lateTickets: Ksh 300 (spaces limited) call/text 0722352239

  
  

• Video: Kuweni Serious! - "Save Yourself. Vote"

  Posted: July 28, 2010, 9:02 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  
  featuring Rapcha The Sayantist.

  
  

• Video: Fela! The Musical (clip)

  Posted: July 27, 2010, 8:03 pm by KenyaChristian

  Nah, not the whole musical...you wish.lol.
  
  

  
  

• Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai

  Posted: July 27, 2010, 7:27 pm by KenyaChristian

  I'm posting this up because I think every Kenyan needs to see this film. Moving, powerful, inspiring, incredible..too many words. I went to a screening, and there wasn't a dry eye in the audience after the film.
  
  
  It is now showing at Prestige Plaza. I think especially young Kenyans need to see this because a lot of them don't know how far we've really come from as a country. Thats why it boggles my mind to think anyone would vote no and stick with the current (soon to be old)constitution. But that's a blog for another day. Go see this film. Hopefully it will be aired on National TV sometime soon..
  
  

   Taking Root tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy—a movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration.

  More info here    Previously: Taking Root trailer

  
  

• VHP 1.2.1: Mos Def - "Travellin' Man"

  Posted: July 27, 2010, 7:03 pm by KenyaChristian

  Still my favourite Mos Def song ever. This is from DJ Honda's 1998 album HII. Hip-hop at its best imo..*sigh I miss her
  
  
  
  The innovative/ Classical B-Boy image/Collect the winnings/Cause that's the reason that we came here/This thing is not a game here/The fortune not the fame here/From New York to the Cakalaks
  Cali in the Cadillacs/Chicago know we innovate/Infiltrate Virginia State/DC make me stimulate/Philly know we penetrate/Georgia make us generate/Let's set a date to get the papes/They celebrate to my jams in foreign lands/Even your mans in Japan know who I am/Minasan, like everybody out in Nippon/Say ichiban
  (lyrics from OHHLA)
  
  
  Previously: VHP 1.2.0-Janet Jackson
  
  Bonus: Lauryn Hill - Repercussions

  
  

• Storymoja Hay Festival 2010

  Posted: July 26, 2010, 6:15 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  Date: 1st - 3rd October 2010Venue: Railways Club GroundsTime & Price: TBA
  (picture by Kenyanpoet)
  Last year's Storymoja Hay Festival held at Impala Club was really good. This event is a must for anyone interested in the arts and literature.

  
  

• Grand Debate (Trailer)

  Posted: July 24, 2010, 2:12 pm by KenyaChristian

  from the KenyaScienceCafe
  
  
  
  I attended this, and though it was poorly organized it was nevertheless interesting. Science doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves in Africa. I appreciate that this forum is trying to make science accessible to the masses.

  
  

• Video: Kuweni Serious! - No More Cash!

  Posted: July 21, 2010, 8:07 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  
  

  Gowi Odera organized a peaceful street demonstration to protest the recent move by Kenyan MPs to increase their salary – a move that has been met with condemnation from many corners. We talked to Gowi and some of the protestors who turned up. What do YOU think? Is there anything you feel strongly enough to take to the streets for?

  via Kuweni Serious! 
  
  Also check out their creative comic strips on the Proposed Constitution @ Soma Hiyo Something

  
  

• Video: Good Hair (Trailer)

  Posted: July 19, 2010, 9:32 pm by KenyaChristian

  I happen to prefer natural, I think many other black men do too to be honest
  
  
  
  This movie was released last year, but I wanted to post this cause I've wanted to blog on this subject for some time.

  
  

• Video: Nneka on CNN's African Voices

  Posted: July 17, 2010, 6:08 pm by KenyaChristian

  I'm not a fan of CNN, just of Nneka
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Read article: The Nigerian hiphop star hailed as the next big thing
  
  Previously: ::KenyaChristian:: interview with Nneka

  
  

• Video: Kikulacho (trailer)

  Posted: July 15, 2010, 6:23 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  
  How devastating is poor organization and management to a country and its people? How can we ensure better leadership and a better tomorrow for our children?
  
  These are some of the themes explored and laid bare in the film Kikulacho – the Bite Within. Kikulacho is a powerful Kenyan documentary that examines how corrupt systems and policies have impacted on the common people. But it is also a story of hope and triumph that aims to look at how our institutions and leadership can be shaped by the people themselves to realize their dreams.

  
  

• Maker Faire Africa: Call For Makers

  Posted: July 12, 2010, 7:05 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  What we ask is that your contraption, prototype or demo, be it something you made yourself or together with others. We are just as interested in the finished item as the process/path the Maker(s) took in getting there. Photographs/Video of the assembly/fashioning/fabrication process are welcome they will add very valuable context to what you/your and or co-makers will be presenting.
  
  
  The underlying theme of our inaugural event is to celebrate ingenuity, innovation and inventionwithin Africa.The key words here are to celebrate and have fun while absorbing,interacting andlearning from the creativity of othersEntry Close Date: July 15th, 2010
  Date: August 27th - 28th, 2010
  Venue: University of Nairobi
  Hours: Friday 10am - 8pm, Saturday (10am - 6pm)
  
  Submit you project here  For more info contact info@makerfaireafrica.com

  
  

• Interview with Nigerian artist Nneka Part 2

  Posted: July 9, 2010, 8:49 pm by KenyaChristian

  In part 2 of my exclusive interview with hip-hop/soul artist Nneka we discuss issues such as her faith, her deep lyrics and how she plans to maintain her musical purity in an industry that has destroyed many before her. (Read Part 1 of the interview here.)
  
  
  
  ::KenyaChristian:: In my review of you album “No Longer at Ease” I termed your lyrics prodigious. You seem to have so much wisdom, where does this come from?
  
   Nneka: I have no clue, I feel small, I feel I know nothing. I only use my heart and my pain..
  
  ::KC:: Your music also contains a lot of spirituality and references to faith and God. Germany seems like a very secularized country. How was it living there and how did you maintain your faith?
  
   Nneka: It is always difficult when your far from home, far from what you consider as comfort. But well all these things have a reason, and led to my finding my passion and identity..(which is) music
  
  ::KenyaChristian:: Your music has been compared to Lauryn Hill’s, and we all know what happened with her career. Right now your music and message are still raw and pure. Do you ever think about how the music industry (especially American) might try and change you and make you into something you’re not and how do you plan to deal with that?
  
  Nneka: I know where i am coming from. I remind myself of the source, of the intention, therefore I stand strong and rooted.
  
  ::KenyaChristian:: Your music is like finding a diamond in the rough. Why do you think a lot of music is so bland, empty and lacking substance these days?
  
  Nneka: People are too focused on themselves, on their fame, on their pockets. The heart is dying and the head is swelling, therefore the soul suffocates and there is no air left for love.
  
  
  
  ::KenyaChristian:: Ken Saro-Wiwa was murdered for his activism and outspokenness on the situation in Niger Delta. “Niger Delta” on your 2nd album is a very powerful record, do you feel you are continuing Ken Saro-Wiwa’s mission through you music?
  
  Nneka:  I am raising awareness and trying as much as possible in my own way to contribute to the wellbeing of my home.
  
  ::KenyaChristian:: You talk about love being the most important issue and how a person must do everything with love. Why is love so important in what someone does?
  
  Nneka: Because without it nothing makes sense, you poison the entity and joint that keeps people united.
  ::KC:: I would really like to see you tour Africa, and come to my country Kenya and hold a concert. Nigerian pop artists and movies are popular here in Kenya. Do you intend for Africans to hear more of you and your message?
  
  Nneka: Call me, and hook me up. I am always willing, and I am looking forward to it.
  ::KC:: I for one would love to hold a conversation with you on Africa, faith, love and other issues, haha.
  
  Nneka: No problem, I am down bro, anything for the love.
  
  ::KC:: Thanks for doing this interview.
  
  Nneka: Thankyou too and God bless.

  
  

• Video: Kenyans for Change - "Amua"

  Posted: July 9, 2010, 8:46 pm by KenyaChristian

  featuring among others Nameless, Sauti Sol, Juliani, Suzanna Owiyo
  
  
  
  Listen: "Wakati Ni Sasa"

  
  

• Video: "True Social Justice"

  Posted: July 9, 2010, 8:20 pm by KenyaChristian

  by Eric Vaughn
  
  
  
  from P4CM's Lyrcist Lounge

  
  

• Video: Mavuno Worship - "So Unchanging"

  Posted: July 9, 2010, 8:09 pm by KenyaChristian

  Here are more video's from The Mavuno Worship project. I don't even know why I don't have this DVD yet and I always see it. Need to buy this...
  
  
  
  "Jesus Show Me The Way/Fall Down"
  
  
  "Pushing Forward"
  

  
  

• Interview with Nigerian artist Nneka Part 2

  Posted: July 9, 2010, 6:40 pm by KenyaChristian

  In part 2 of my exclusive interview with hip-hop/soul artist Nneka we discuss issues such as her faith, her deep lyrics and how she plans to maintain her musical purity in an industry that has destroyed many before her. (Read Part 1 of the interview here.)
  
  
  
  ::KenyaChristian:: In my review of you album “No Longer at Ease” I termed your lyrics prodigious. You seem to have so much wisdom, where does this come from?
  
   Nneka: I have no clue, I feel small, I feel I know nothing. I only use my heart and my pain..
  
  ::KC:: Your music also contains a lot of spirituality and references to faith and God. Germany seems like a very secularized country. How was it living there and how did you maintain your faith?
  
   Nneka: It is always difficult when your far from home, far from what you consider as comfort. But well all these things have a reason, and led to my finding my passion and identity..(which is) music
  
  ::KenyaChristian:: Your music has been compared to Lauryn Hill’s, and we all know what happened with her career. Right now your music and message are still raw and pure. Do you ever think about how the music industry (especially American) might try and change you and make you into something you’re not and how do you plan to deal with that?
  
  Nneka: I know where i am coming from. I remind myself of the source, of the intention, therefore I stand strong and rooted.
  
  ::KenyaChristian:: Your music is like finding a diamond in the rough. Why do you think a lot of music is so bland, empty and lacking substance these days?
  
  Nneka: People are too focused on themselves, on their fame, on their pockets. The heart is dying and the head is swelling, therefore the soul suffocates and there is no air left for love.
  
  
  
  ::KenyaChristian:: Ken Saro-Wiwa was murdered for his activism and outspokenness on the situation in Niger Delta. “Niger Delta” on your 2nd album is a very powerful record, do you feel you are continuing Ken Saro-Wiwa’s mission through you music?
  
  Nneka:  I am raising awareness and trying as much as possible in my own way to contribute to the wellbeing of my home.
  
  ::KenyaChristian:: You talk about love being the most important issue and how a person must do everything with love. Why is love so important in what someone does?
  
  Nneka: Because without it nothing makes sense, you poison the entity and joint that keeps people united.
  ::KC:: I would really like to see you tour Africa, and come to my country Kenya and hold a concert. Nigerian pop artists and movies are popular here in Kenya. Do you intend for Africans to hear more of you and your message?
  
  Nneka: Call me, and hook me up. I am always willing, and I am looking forward to it.
  ::KC:: I for one would love to hold a conversation with you on Africa, faith, love and other issues, haha.
  
  Nneka: No problem, I am down bro, anything for the love.
  
  ::KC:: Thanks for doing this interview.
  
  Nneka: Thankyou too and God bless.

  
  

• Video: "Rise Up" by Jose Palos

  Posted: July 4, 2010, 10:23 pm by KenyaChristian

  So, which has been your favourite Lyricist Lounge poem/poet so far?
  
  

  
  

• Video: Spensha Baker - Hallelujah

  Posted: July 2, 2010, 5:04 pm by KenyaChristian

  let's get some praise up in hurr. enjoy your Friday!
  
  

  
  

• Video: Jah Sun ft.Queen Omega - "Meditation"

  Posted: July 2, 2010, 5:02 pm by KenyaChristian

  yeah...I'm feeling reggae again these days.
  
  

  
  

• A few thoughts on EAC Common Market that starts tomorrow

  Posted: June 30, 2010, 1:22 am by KenyaChristian

  I love you East Africa! Here is to hoping this Common Market works this time round, lets not dwell on the mistakes and politics of the 70's. It's a shame East Africans seem so apathetic about this, as for me I am very, very excited about this. I love when my people unite for our common good, we can do this people! Stop with the fear-mongering, "our economy can't compete, we will be flooded with substandard goods, we will lose jobs." yadda, yadda, yadda..
  
  
   Don't let your fears hold us back, black people we need to start believing we can do things and not waiting for The Man to help us. To all the people who have worked on the EAC thing, good job, there is still a long way to go, but we are taking small steps. This blog vehemently rejects anyone trying to hold back the unity of East Africans. I also believe in a United States of Africa, and I support Gaddafi's efforts to make this happen. You know Africans can be so behind the curve sometimes. Gaddafi you are ahead of your time, they'll catch up someday..I hope. I get excited when I'm already seeing cars with TZ and UG plates driving around Nairobi. who knows I might move to TZ or UG, get me a plot, lol. no, really...

  
  

• Lauryn Hill interview

  Posted: June 29, 2010, 8:07 pm by KenyaChristian

  No, no I didn't get an interview with Lauryn Hill, I wish..lol. She was recently interviewed on NPR's "All Things Considered" by Zoe Chace.
  
  
  She seems to be making a quiet comeback onto the scene. She will be an artist on this year's Rock the Bells tour.
  Listen to interview here.  Also read here
  P.S As a hiphop fan I think Lauryn Hill is top 5 rappers ever. She is/was just an amazing lyricist.

  
  

• Video: "The Truth Without Photoshop"

  Posted: June 29, 2010, 5:13 pm by KenyaChristian

  A poem by Janette
  
  
  
  Whoever said Christian poetry is wack...you don't know what you're missing. Lyricist Lounge is organized by P4CM and is becoming big. I'm sure something similar and as popular can be done here in Kenya. I know there are already events as Mad Love, keep doing what you're doing!

  
  

• Video: Aloe Blacc - "I Need A Dollar"

  Posted: June 26, 2010, 5:04 pm by KenyaChristian

  No..I don't really agree with the message of the song, but boy is it a funky tune. #playthisintheride
  
  
  
  It's the theme song from this HBO show

  
  

• Video: Daughters of Africa clip

  Posted: June 25, 2010, 6:35 pm by KenyaChristian

  This was on tour at Sarakasi Dome earlier this year, tickets were very expensive though for some reason..
  
  

  
  

• Video: Suite for Ma Dukes - "Untitled/Fantastic"

  Posted: June 22, 2010, 7:30 pm by KenyaChristian

  From the Suite for Ma Dukes EP, which is an orchestral project interpretating music of the late legendary hiphop producer J Dilla.
  
  
  FULL SCREEN
  The Sounds of VTech / SFMD: Untitled/Fantastic   
  Listen: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson & The Suite for Ma Dukes Orchestra – Untitled/Fantastic

  
  

• Dela & Muthoni present "Techno Sufuria's"

  Posted: June 22, 2010, 5:11 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  The first; vrb, n, Techno Sufurias! Where basic meets epic.
  

  For centuries women have been bringing us together through food. The sufuria, an instrument of genius that withstands heat and converts the rawest forms into a feast. The most accessible and basic form of technology that shall continue to provide fuel to those in need.
  
  Techno sufurias is an expressive blend born of confusion and gratitude for all the basic and epic things that technology has brought us. Music is our fuel, and we have prepared a musical feast. Welcome to the next frontier.

  
  Date: June 26th, 2010
  
  Venue: Nondies Rugby Club
  
  Time: 8:00pm till late
  
  Entrance: Ksh400

  
  

• Video: "The African Game" (trailer)

  Posted: June 22, 2010, 4:58 pm by KenyaChristian

  " The African Game" -- Documentary Film Screener from REDD Kat Pictures on Vimeo.

  
  

• Video: Emmy Kosgei - "Ategisin"

  Posted: June 19, 2010, 3:00 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Daddy Owen - "Yesu Alisema"

  Posted: June 19, 2010, 2:55 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Jimmy Gait - "Tafadhali"

  Posted: June 19, 2010, 2:25 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Juliana Kanyomozi & Bushoke - "Usiende Mbali"

  Posted: June 17, 2010, 8:49 pm by KenyaChristian

  I heard this song performed live, and just fell in love with it. Good songs seem to be few and far between these days. the romantic in me:)
  
  
  
  In other news, I really wanna visit U.G. Never been there imagine!:(

  
  

• Video: Nneka - "Viva Africa"

  Posted: June 14, 2010, 10:11 pm by KenyaChristian

  A self-made video from Nneka for her song for the 2010 World Cup soundtrack
  
  

  
  

• Sigana Storytelling Festival 2010

  Posted: June 5, 2010, 7:44 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

  This is a 5 day long celebration of the enthralling art of storytelling performance. Participation has already been confirmed from wonderful oral performance wordsmiths representing, Sweden, Tanzania, Uganda, USA, Sweden and Kenya.

  
  Date: 11th - 13th June, 2010
  Venue: Alliance Francoise, off Loita St.
  Entrance:Door Adults -Ksh400, Kids -Ksh 200
                                                                               For tickets call: 0721764622, 0724884327For more info click here  and here
  

  
  

• Video: 10 ways you can know if a girl is just using you

  Posted: June 5, 2010, 6:54 pm by KenyaChristian

  From Pastor Cox
  
  

  
  

• Barcamp Nairobi 2010

  Posted: June 5, 2010, 6:48 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

  BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.

  
  Date: 12th - 13th June 2010
  Time: From 9:00 am
  Venue: iHub, Bishop Magua Centre, Ngong Road, Nairobi
  Entrance: Register here

  
  

• Video: iHub Launch

  Posted: June 3, 2010, 9:18 pm by KenyaChristian

  From the launch back in March
  
  
  *iHub_ Launch Video from iHub on Vimeo.

  
  

• Exclusive! Interview with Nigerian soul artist Nneka.

  Posted: May 29, 2010, 5:42 pm by KenyaChristian

  Nneka Egbuna is a Nigerian musician whose star continues to rise. With the release of her latest album Concrete Jungle (for the U.S market) she continues to capture the ear of many. She has been compared to artists from Lauryn Hill to Fela Kuti. This blog earlier this year declared her its favourite artist. She is currently on tour with Nas & Damian Marley on their Distant Relatives Tour as the opening act. She also has a new song Viva Africa featured on the 2010 World Cup soundtrack. An outspoken artist on many issues like Africa, faith love, corruption, the Niger Delta and more she continues to shake things up musically. In Part 1 of this exclusive interview with ::KenyaChristian:: she talks about her powerful song “Africans”, her recording process, if Africa can ever be truly free and more. So, sit back and check out what she had to say.
  
  
  
  ::KenyaChristian:: Hello Nneka, greetings from Kenya! First of all, thank you very much for doing this interview with KenyaChristian blog. I have been listening to “No Longer at Ease” ever since its release and its power never diminishes. When recording that album what was the process like, did you intentionally set out to make a “hard-hitting” record message-wise or what was the plan?
  
  Nneka: No, there was no plan, since I just vibe. It was a long process, I never really have a specific recording period, I work daily. When I am inspired I write and produce, sometimes it just does not come. “No Longer At Ease” was a collection of songs I wrote in the last two years; ups and downs lead to new songs, seeing different places in the world, meeting different people and being inspired. What inspired me most was my hometown and the plight of the Niger Delta.
  
  ::KenyaChristian:: We must talk about the song “Africans” from your debut album. It is rare these days to hear such a blunt and raw record, especially as a single. Did you think when recording it, that you may offend some Africans with that record?
  
  
  
  Nneka: Yes! I am African, I was offended myself by my thoughts; but the truth always hurts. There is so much we need to change within Africa. We can not always depend on the Western world for aid, for help and assistance of any kind, it all lies within Africa. We have the resources, if our leaders were to invest in the right places things would be better. And of course if we as citizens and people of Africa would see our own responsibilities and importance to the development of our community and continent then a change, a positive change would come to pass.
  
  ::KenyaChristian:: Can I challenge you on that same song? What about someone who would argue its naïve to think Africans can just wake up and chart their own destiny. Look at Zimbabwe, they tried it and now the West has tried to strangle them through economic sanctions. Maybe the chains (on Africans) are not as easy to break as your song implies?
  
  Nneka: It is difficult. There would be blood, there would be strife, there would be death. And if at all we work with the West, which is actually something you cannot avoid at this stage, (we have gone too far already) one always has to show people the limits to their freedom. I am not saying we should remove them completely; that cannot work since we are all connected, and in life we are compelled to interact and work together.
  
  Look out for Part 2, coming soon!

  
  

• Video: Dee - "Too Good"

  Posted: May 29, 2010, 5:40 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  
  Previously: Chit Chat - I La La Like It

  
  

• Video: "Two Clocks" by Ngwatilo Mawiyoo

  Posted: May 26, 2010, 11:40 pm by KenyaChristian

  This is cool. I've always wondered why poets don't seem to make video's just like musicians. We need more of this. Kenyan poets, where y'all @?
  
  
  
  Ngwatilo has her poetry book out. Not exactly sure where it's available, but I know its called Blue Mothertongue.
  
  Update: For more info on her book, check here

  
  

• Video: Muigwithania (Trailer)

  Posted: May 22, 2010, 6:01 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  
  
  
  

  MUIGWITHANIA (Understanding) is a new feature film produced by Wide Angle Visions Limited, a media production company of Kenya’s well-known cultural organisers Sailesh and Mehul Savani of Nairobi, Kenya.

  It is a story set in a village in Central Province. The story follows two Mau Mau fighters on the run from the British Army, who take refuge in the home of an Asian shopkeeper. The story is about what happens in the night when the Mau Mau fighters have to interact with the Asian shopkeeper’s family and make their way out of the village, away from their pursuers- the British Army.

  It is filmed in English, on actual locations used by the Mau Mau in Kabete area of Central Province (on the outskirts of Nairobi).

  
   Look out for this film premiering next week at Silverbird Cinemas. Support Kenyan arts!

  
  

• Video: Holy Dave - "I Can Do It"

  Posted: May 22, 2010, 4:33 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: "I Represent Jesus Christ"

  Posted: May 22, 2010, 4:30 pm by KenyaChristian

  A poem by Blair Wingo
  
  
  
  By the way she's not with P4CM anymore (or at least at the moment)

  
  

• Sawa Sawa Festival 2010

  Posted: May 20, 2010, 6:32 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  Date: Saturday 29th May - 30th May, 2010Time: 10:00 amVenue: Sarakasi Dome, Ngara, Nairobi Entry: Free
  More details here

  
  

• Video: SMA - "Never Let Me Down"

  Posted: May 20, 2010, 6:03 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: M.O.G - "Wedding Day"

  Posted: May 20, 2010, 6:01 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Hopes & Prospects

  Posted: May 20, 2010, 5:55 pm by KenyaChristian

  If any of y'all spots this in Nairobi, throw me a line. Been waiting to get my hands on it. *sigh.. I miss the days of Amazon pre-orders. Maybe Rachael's might have it?(checks..)
  
  

  
  

• Video: Sawa Sawa Festival 2009

  Posted: May 18, 2010, 10:13 pm by KenyaChristian

  Last year's festival was the bomb. Was quite impressed, and discovered many new artists there like Muthoni Ndonga and Sauti Sol. hope this year's will be just as good.
  
  
  
  Look out for this year's Sawa Sawa Festival to be held @ Sarakasi Dome, Ngara Rd. From Wednesday 26th to Sunday 30th May, 2010/

  
  

• Video: Michelle & Saint P - "Nikianguka"

  Posted: May 15, 2010, 6:27 pm by KenyaChristian

  featuring Ching Chong
  
  

  
  

• VHP 1.2.0: Janet Jackson - Let's Wait A While

  Posted: May 13, 2010, 11:05 pm by KenyaChristian

  Sometimes it;s hard to believe this is a Janet Jackson song, because of the content of her later material. Nevertheless great song from her classic third 1986 album Control.
  
  
  
  Previously: Mos Def - Umi Says

  
  

• Proposed Constitution of Kenya 2010

  Posted: May 13, 2010, 9:13 pm by KenyaChristian

  ownload it, read it and vote. No excuses! It's your country, your future.. (If you failed to register and you're in Kenya, I've no words for you)
  
  Muigwithania.com-Draft constitution May 6th 2010
  
                                                              Click here to download

  
  

• Video: Almost (Saved) by Ezekiel Azonwu

  Posted: May 8, 2010, 5:00 pm by KenyaChristian

  From P4CM's 2nd Lyricist Lounge
  
  

  
  

• Kenyanpoet's debut book now available

  Posted: May 4, 2010, 9:33 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  Njeri Wangari aka Kenyanpoet recently released her debut chapbook titled Mines &Fields: My Spoken Words published by Nsemia.
  It is available at the following:
  North America1011 Upper Middle Road East, Suite 1124Oakville, Ontario, Canada L6H 5L2; Tel: 1-888-587-1150Email: info@nsemia.com.
  
  East Africa5th Floor Ufundi Plaza, Moi AvenueP. O. Box 62424, Code 00200Nairobi, KenyaTe: 254-020-250 2345Email: info@nsemia.com Please support Kenyan writers!

  
  

• Video: Webi - "My Forever"

  Posted: April 8, 2010, 6:17 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Mr.Googz - "Gospel Celebrity"

  Posted: April 7, 2010, 8:59 pm by KenyaChristian

  It's about time someone spoke out about this. If you're a Gospel celeb singer/rapper/whatever out there and you know you're doing it for the wrong reasons.(i.e using God's Word for ungodly pursuits) Um, you know what to do let your conscience speak to you, I wont judge.
  
  

  
  

• Video: Mr.Googz - "The Fourth Man"

  Posted: April 7, 2010, 8:54 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: P4CM "Would you date the girl from Precious?"

  Posted: April 7, 2010, 8:48 pm by KenyaChristian

  Brothers out there, be real with yourselves. It's healthy to ponder these kinds of questions..
  
  
  
  (Women too:)

  
  

• Video: Kambua - "Nisikie"

  Posted: April 7, 2010, 8:17 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: SK Blue - "Just In Case"

  Posted: April 6, 2010, 3:48 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Interview with Njoki Ngumi (Part 2)

  Posted: April 5, 2010, 9:15 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  
  In Part 2 of ::KenyaChristian's:: interview with Njoki Ngumi we discuss various issues like tribalism, are Kenyan youth too distracted, is Kenya ripe for a revolution among others. Check out part 1 of the interview here.   ::KenyaChristian:: I’m looking at Thailand on the news and I’m seeing massive street demonstrations by the people against the government, same with Iran last year. As someone from the middle class, have we become cowards safe in our little bubbles? Njoki Ngumi: I think that question is best answered by John Githongo's interview on Kuweni Serious a group of people who think Kenyans should be more focused about rescuing their country for themselves and getting it off its knees. He says, when asked about people who feel disconnected from social unrest, that, "You’re going to be burnt out of yourRange Rover. Anybody sitting backthinking that you’re going to watchproblems on TV like in 2007.We had the comfort [last time], we watched iton TV, it ended, Kofi Annan flew in, peopleshook hands and then we have this coalition.I’m not that certain that we’ll have the comfortof being able to watch it on TV next time.The TV might be the first thingto be taken away from us."   I can't add anything to that. Bubbles are too easy to burst. Let's leave them for ourselves before they are burst with us still in them. Furthermore, I'm not "someone from the middle class"; I was raised by good, middle class parents who worked hard to get themselves from where they were to where they are now. I have to go out and find a so-called "class" for myself. And it'll be a laughable one, with my temporary-terms-of-service civil servant starting salary. ::KenyaChristian:: Like many young people I’m on Facebook and when I read other Kenyans updates I’m getting the latest on a new exotic coffee someone is trying. Another person is screaming in all caps because Man-U or Arsenal lost a game. You also talked about people obsessed with 24 and Gossip Girl on Kuweni Serious blog. Is our generation lost, we seem so distracted and superficial. NN: We may be those things. We're also tired of trying to belong to a country the old guard has refused to let us taste a part of, feel as our own, and love for ourselves. So we've looked for thrills elsewhere. Let's enjoy the exotic coffees, and not think too hard about how because someone made a bad decision, we export raw coffee and import it right back in with 500% value added and say how "our coffee" is great. Let's enjoy Man U because someone made a bad decision and our own footballers have to own butcheries and run a million side hustles so they can play, and if they really want to follow their dreams they have to go abroad. Let's be obsessed with Gossip Girl because someone made a bad decision and we can't have good enough clothes made here, our cotton industry went to the dogs, so let's lust over designer clothes from abroad. We're more distracted than superficial. I have faith in Kenyans...we know good things. That's why we all laugh at the bad scripting and production of Cobra Squad and watch foreign things. If good things came from here, we'd give them an honest shot.  (Njoki Ngumi(right) performing at Just a Band's 82 album launch) ::KenyaChristian:: I was at a forum in Nairobi recently on transitional justice issues in Kenya and I found the issues/debates very interesting. Is there a way more young Kenyans can become engaged on important issues that will affect them in future? NN: By using the net also as a forum to discuss serious things. By having deep debates over drinks, and over nyama, and at school while walking between classes, while talking with our boyfriends/girlfriends, parents, pastors, imams whoevers, while preparing meals at home. Not setting aside time for these things. Making them a part of who and where we are at any particular moment. ::KenyaChristian:: Do you think anything will change in Kenya short of a revolution? NN: A revolution of hearts and minds and purpose? No. ::KC:: What would you say to someone who would suggest your blogs are just another Kenyan ranting and whining about their problems, or that your young and idealistic. NN: That's just fine with me. As long as we're working towards the same thing, maybe their method works better for them, you know? I'm trying to make myself feel with my words, and somehow other people are starting to feel too. That's a blessing for me, whether it may be a rant or whine in someone else's view. I'm young, for now anyway :-). May I always be idealistic, though. I don't think that's a bad thing to be in any context. It's the idealists that change the world. An idealist was born 2000 years ago with the psychotic idea that God loved people enough to want to live in them. An idealist in South Africa went to jail for more than 20 years for daring to be public about the fact that underneath their skin, black people and white people are exactly the same. Let them say what they want. It's ok, if they'll be willing to try to love my country too. ::KC:: O.K here is a seemingly simple question for you. Why is there rampant tribalism in Kenya? NN: Because we're human. Because we let ourselves be brainwashed by centuries of "culture" and "tradition". Because our leaders know the tribe card is a powerful one to play to get us thinking how we can rise up and fight. ::KC:: Politics and Medicine …they seems worlds apart. Do you have your feet in two different worlds or how do you connect the two? NN: As I laugh at the thought of me...being involved in politics...! ME?! Ha! There's only one world, I feel. Everything is interconnected already. I don't have to do anything to connect them for myself. Politics and medicine, for instance, are connected already. It doesn't take a genius to realize that no one in a hospital wants supplies to run out, or we won't be doing anything to help patients. So when drugs run out, of course it's because someone is sitting on a payment or refusing to let a tender go through. That's politics right there. Things like that. Everything is everywhere. We don't have to look far. Everyone is holding everyone else's hand, under the table. You know what they say about 6 degrees of separation? The corrupt politician might say we're his reason for corruption because we have too many demands of him as an individual. We're all to blame for each others madness. ::KC:: So, to the cynics who say Kenyans are just talkers and not doers. Which of the two are you, and how are you playing your part to change things as a young, middle-class Kenyan? NN: Everyone is both. I'm a talker by saying what I feel. I'm a doer by trying to go to work on time every day and care about each and every person I see. What is "change things", anyway, if not having a positive attitude and at least trying to get things done the right way? Doesn't stuff like that ripple out if people fight for it? That may be my idealism talking. A young, middle class Kenyan? Fiddlesticks. I'm a young-for-now civil servant. Let's not have any of that "middle-class" jive around here. ::KC:: Thanks for speaking to KenyaChristian blog, hope to hear and see more from you. NN: Cheers, Kenya Christian.

  
  

• The Arts Canvas presents Kigezi Ndoto

  Posted: April 5, 2010, 8:43 pm by KenyaChristian

  A play by Mumbi Kaigwa
  
  
  
  Date: March 4th - March 30th, 2010
  
  Venue: Various towns (See full schedule here)
  
  Entry: Free
  
  Previously: Kigezi Ndoto video piece

  
  

• Video: Janelle Monae - "Tightrope"

  Posted: April 1, 2010, 8:23 pm by KenyaChristian

  Her debut album The ArchAndroid drops in May.
  
  

  
  

• Video: Makmende on CNN

  Posted: April 1, 2010, 6:24 pm by KenyaChristian

  David McKenzie reports
  
  

  
  

• Video Hits Package:1.2.0 Erykah Badu

  Posted: March 31, 2010, 4:09 pm by KenyaChristian

  This is from her 1997 album(gosh, 13yrs already) Baduizm. Her latest video is causing a small stir on the net.I love it when artists(I like) provoke people, thats the real purpose of art in my opinion.Will be reviewing Baduizm later.
  
  
  
  

  "Most intellects do not believe in God/but they fear us just the same.."

  
  

• Video: Webi - "Never Let you Go" + "I Need Thee"

  Posted: March 30, 2010, 9:01 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  
  "I Need Thee" (Unplugged)
  

  
  

• Video: Kambua - "Tembea Na Yesu"

  Posted: March 29, 2010, 3:19 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• AfyaKenya presents: Art for Afya 4

  Posted: March 29, 2010, 3:18 pm by KenyaChristian

  Date: March 31st, 2010Venue: Mwenda's, Utalii House(Moktar Daddah St.)Time: 7: 30 - 11:00pmEntrance: Ksh 500
  Previously: AfyaKenya medical camp

  
  

• Video: Etana - "Free"

  Posted: March 27, 2010, 8:01 pm by KenyaChristian

  I've started liking reggae again the past two months or so. Is there a renaissance happening, or its just me? I have my music phases though, so maybe it's just me liking the genre again. Other genres these days are so commercialized and largely uninspiring...
  
  

  
  

• Video: Zippy Okoth - "Singedhani Ungenisamehe"

  Posted: March 27, 2010, 6:42 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Jeromarsh - "Twede!"

  Posted: March 27, 2010, 6:39 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Zaidi Ya Muziki - "Ni Wewe"

  Posted: March 27, 2010, 6:22 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Jackie Kotira - "Tutembelee"

  Posted: March 27, 2010, 6:21 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Mavuno Worship - "My God You Never Change"

  Posted: March 27, 2010, 6:20 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Who is Makmende? (KTN Feature)

  Posted: March 27, 2010, 4:53 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  
  

  What happens when you take a childhood hero in urban Kenya, a boy band, the internet and Kenyans in need of a superhero? You get Makmende. Most people who grew up in urban Kenya and spoke the slang of Shen'g know Makmende as a superhero of sorts. But boy group Just A Band has given it a whole new meaning in the video for its new single Ha He which has set social media alight and spilled over into the mainstream media KTN's Larry Madowo breaks down Makmende.

  
  

• Video: Headlines in History (NMG's 50 year journey)

  Posted: March 26, 2010, 1:47 pm by KenyaChristian

  This is a film directed by award-winning movie maker Judy Kibinge. Among other things, the documentary illustrates major headlines through NMG’s history to its transformation from production of black and white pictures to acquisition of hi-tech equipment, which enabled it to publish coloured photographs.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Previously: Coming of Age(short film)

  
  

• Video: Wanuri Kahiu interview with SVT

  Posted: March 24, 2010, 1:39 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  
  Kenyan filmmaker Wanuri Kahiu speaks about her groundbreaking Kenyan sci-fi film Pumzi.
  
  

  "In Africa, when you’re making a film, it has to be issue driven...you have write about AIDS or FGM...something the NGO is funding...thats how you get funds. Rarely do you get creative lease.."

  
  Via: A Bombastic Element
  
  Previously: Pumzi film review and trailer

  
  

• Video: Jackie hill poetry performance

  Posted: March 24, 2010, 1:18 pm by KenyaChristian

  P4CM poet performing "My Life As A Stud"
  
  

  
  

• Video: Sho Baraka - "We Can Be More"

  Posted: March 23, 2010, 6:54 pm by KenyaChristian

  featuring J.R
  
  

  
  

• Video: How Not to Write About Africa by Binyavanga Wainaina

  Posted: March 23, 2010, 5:23 pm by KenyaChristian

  Narrated by Djimon Hounsou
  
  
  
  

  When Bono edited the Africa issue of Vanity Fair, it included an essay written by Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina. Through that, we became aware of another piece he'd written for Granta a number of years ago called "How (Not) to Write About Africa." Director Jesse Dylan and his company FreeForm worked with Binyavanga and the Beninois actor Djimon Hounsou to create this filmed performance of the essay. Read the entire essay here

  
  

• Kwani? and 2010 CDC Caine Prize Workshop Reading

  Posted: March 23, 2010, 5:09 pm by KenyaChristian

  Kwani Trust is pleased to announce a reading in collaboration with The CDC Caine Prize workshop. The event will include an award ceremony for the winner of the recent Kwani? Short Story Competition. The Caine Prize readings will feature Mamle Kabu and Stephen Kenai, both shortlisted for the Caine Prize in 2009 and 2008 respectively. Kwani? readings will feature 4 upcoming new titles to be released into bookshops on April 1 2010

  Date: Wednesday, March 24th 2010Venue: #3 Kifaru Gardens, Kanjata Rd.(off James Gichuru Rd.)Time: 7:30 pmEntry: Free

  
  

• Interview with Njoki Ngumi

  Posted: March 20, 2010, 2:04 pm by KenyaChristian

  You may have seen her featured on the Kuweni Serious! video titled “Blood Will Not Clean Bloodstains.” She says she likes music, friends, cooking and theatre but she also has a lot to say about Kenyan society. Her sometimes humorous, honest and always interesting blogs [Read here and here] have been doing the rounds on Kenyan blogs and getting positive feedback. Her words and way of expression seem to have resonated with those who have read them. So why did she decide to write these articles (she says they’re just Facebook notes), and why are they getting such a positive reaction?
  ::KenyaChristian:: decided to catch up with Njoki Ngumi, a recent graduate in medicine currently doing an internship in Naivasha. In Part 1 of this interview we discuss her “blogs,” Kenyan corruption, and why she would like to become the first black Swiss milkmaid.
  
  
  
  ::KenyaChristian:: Your blogs have been getting great feedback from people. When did you start writing your socio-political blogs and why?
  
  Njoki Ngumi: I'm just amazed that anyone would describe my random thoughts as a blog...I'm not nearly that organized and purposeful. The couple of articles being referred to are actually just Facebook notes, and still are. I've been the person I describe as the middle class, unconcerned Kenyan, who wants to be able to buy credit and milk even when the world is burning down. It's not an easy thing to confess. But I have a very socially conscious family and friends. They want to talk about these things. They want to care even when it's hurting them to and they'd be more profited (if that's a word) by giving their energies to something else. I think they've been contagious. So even if I sneer at newspaper headlines, for instance, it’s better a million times than not reading them at all, from losing every connection to what's happening. Let's be pissed about dead fish in Lake Naivasha. We may not be able to do something about it, but let's be pissed. It keeps us human enough to wish or hope for something better. And if you can hope, you can work towards something better, I guess.
  
  Why are they socio-political? I didn't know they were. I don't know. I think what matters, always, at the end of the day, is people. People are a mixture of clay and spirit that had the ability to build a tower up that threatened the heavens. That's how much power they have. So maybe the socio- is me trying to remind myself how much they and their thoughts and feelings matter, when all is said and done. Political...maybe because people go where their leaders are going. And I don't like how our leaders are screwing us with their selfish decisions.
  
  ::KC:: Is the problem really our so-called leaders, or is it us ordinary Kenyans?
  
  NN: It's all of us. Our leaders are bad for making selfish decisions and having immorally high salaries while the people who teach their constituents, the people who protect their constituents and keep their roads safe, the people who run public hospitals and schools and sweep their offices are earning peanuts and are told to survive on that as some disgusting proof of patriotism. While we still have internally displaced people 3 years after the madness. We as Kenyans enable them by asking for handouts from them, and by taking their crap when they come to our weddings and funerals and harambees to push personal agendas. We're all wrong for not looking out first for Kenya. We're all looking out for ourselves. So we can't blame anyone for what's happening here.
  
  ::KC:: Kenya is not the only corrupt country in the world. (There was the massive Enron scandal in U.S; Anglo-Leasing companies were based in U.K). Are we too hard on ourselves sometimes as Kenyans?
  
  NN: If two people cut themselves and were bleeding to death, one kind of oozing out slow and the other spurting out in jets, should the one who's oozing say they're better off? Aren't they both dying?
  
  ::KC:: In your blog “Your Country is NOT going to the Dogs” you talked in jest about moving to Switzerland to become the first black milkmaid with a Bachelor’s Degree. Did you have a period where you had given up on Kenya, and just wanted to escape it all?
  
  NN: I still do. I think people should be world citizens, in their minds. Misled patriotism and a sense of ownership over land and resources is the reason behind most wars today. I'm tired of tribalism, or the fact that if my boyfriend was from another tribe now people would get edgy about it instead of celebrate that someone cares enough to love someone else in this day and age when life is so hard. But the tribal/racist/segregationist thing is so deeply ingrained in the human condition that I don't think there's anywhere anyone can run to get away from it. I picked Switzerland because I think the only reason they don't get involved in wars is the very correct realization that they have too much to lose if they do. My heart gets that.
  However, we can't run from being who we are and having ties to where we come from. I'd ache for home, even if the cows were doing well and the owner of the farm gave me a raise and I had all the chocolate I could eat and all the shallow beautiful things I want. Or even the deep ones. If my home is burning won't I feel sad, even if I'm safe at that moment?
  
  So I'm working on caring enough to want to stay and starting to care for Africa as a whole. We are now, not even the future. And Kenya can't do this alone. And we can't rely on donor support. We have to work together from the ground up.
  
  Look out for Part 2 of our interview with Njoki Ngumi next week!
  
  Bonus: Noam Chomsky interview on Haiti & NGO's (must read)

  
  

• Interview with Njoki Ngumi

  Posted: March 19, 2010, 5:58 pm by KenyaChristian

  Kenyan TV so needs this right now. When is the last time we had something like this on our screens? Something different, original, cutting edge and with a healthy dose of Kenyan flavour. 
  
  Done right, this could be a hit.Kenyan TV stations are you listening?
  
  Makmende on twitter trending topics funny stuff

  
  

• Rift Valley Music Festival

  Posted: March 17, 2010, 4:16 pm by KenyaChristian

  The Rift Valley in Kenya will come alive with music during the first Rift Valley Festival (26th, 27th and 28th March) at Fisherman’s Camp on Lake Naivasha.
  This three-day musical celebration will bring together local and international musicians as well as arts, crafts and culture. Over 4,000 people are expected at the festival, which aims to secure a thriving future for the local communities in the Rift Valley region. All profit from the festival will go towards a local project run by Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP), highlighting the importance of securing clean water and sustainable sanitation services for people within the region.

  Date: 26th-28th March, 2010 Venue: Fisherman's Camp, Lake Naivasha
  Time: Friday - 6pm till late; Sat & Sun -Midday till late
  Tickets: Fri-Ksh500(door); Saturday & Sunday -Ksh800(day),Ksh1400(2day tckt holder)
  
  Artists include, Villagers Band, Sauti Sol, Makadem, Just A band, Thabani, DJ Seb, Nico Lupo
  
  Some places tickets can be found at Recordz(2nd Flr, Yaya Centre), Hiden Agenda Rest. (Sarit Centre), Wasanii Rest.(Harry Thuku Rd), Tapas Bar(Village Market)

  
  

• Video: Just A Band - "Ha-He"

  Posted: March 17, 2010, 3:08 pm by KenyaChristian

  This is the second single from their latest album 82. Creative stuff, other artists step your games up...starring Makmende & Patricia Kihoro.
  
  
  
  

  It was great fun creating our vapid spoof action-hero type based on things we remember watching like Tahamaki, Chuck Norris films and Bruce Lee’s Enter the Dragon – in which angry men walk around beating truth out of hapless people.
  The subtitled ‘dialogue’ consists of phrases lifted from various sources – particularly my favorite mind-bender: Waking Life. -Jim Chuchu

  
  Bonus: Two Reporters Missing in Hunt For Makmende
  

  
  

• Webi - "Outside My Window" (Free Album)

  Posted: March 16, 2010, 5:09 pm by KenyaChristian

  Musician Webi is offering his debut album "Outside My Window" as a free download. This is part of the C.T.A (Cleaning The Airwaves) campaign started by Astar. What a bold move by these artists, we do need a change on our airwaves. Support the movement!
  
  Click here to get Webi's full album
  
  Click here for Astars album

  
  

• Video: Soul Boy (Trailer) + Launch

  Posted: March 14, 2010, 5:22 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  Soulboy Trailer from One Fine Day Films on Vimeo.
  
  Kibera Launch + Behind the scenes video
  
  
  Previously: Movie Seen! Soul Boy Review

  
  

• Video: 1% Event Nairobi Recap

  Posted: March 14, 2010, 4:55 pm by KenyaChristian

  This and the iHub Launch have been the cool "underground" events of the year so far in my opinion. Geeks are the new cool, where have you been? lol Geeks have always been cool imo, its just people have been slow to catchup!
  
  
  
  

  1%CLUB is the online marketplace that connects people with smart ideas in developing countries with people, money and knowledge around the world.
  We are talking about sustainable projects that stimulate the self-reliance of individuals anywhere in the world and improve their standard of living.
  To achieve this, we need three things: a little bit of your knowledge, money or time. You choose how, when and how much you want to participate. The people that run the projects that you are involved in keep you informed on the progress. It is that simple.

  
  

  
  

• Video: Wernono Faimly - "Amen"

  Posted: March 14, 2010, 4:50 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Soul Boy (Trailer)

  Posted: March 14, 2010, 4:31 pm by KenyaChristian

  feat Shem & Austine
  
  

  
  

• Video: K'Naan - "Wavin' Flag" (Celebration Mix)

  Posted: March 14, 2010, 4:06 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  K'NAAN "Waving Flag" -Celebration mix- Dir: NABIL from nabil elderkin on Vimeo.
  
  This is the official anthem for the 2010 South Africa World Cup. *BIG SIGH* I wish I could go for this event! Life is soo fair, ain't it? What an amazing experience it will be, especially if you're African.

  
  

• Movie Seen! Soul Boy

  Posted: March 11, 2010, 1:43 am by KenyaChristian

  Soul Boy is a film by Ghanian-Kenyan director Hawa Essuman, shot in the famous Nairobi slum Kibera. This film by German production company One Fine Day Films and Goethe-Institut revolves around Abila (Samson Odhiambo), a fourteen year old boy growing up and experiencing life’s lessons in this poor environment. Kibera is a place that has just experienced post-election violence and Abila has to navigate his way through this environment, while at the same time just trying to be a normal teenager.
  
  Abila wakes up on what seems like just another day to find that his father is bed-ridden with illness; his soul has been stolen he tells his teenage son. Troubled and worried as there is no one to run their kiosk, Abila sets off to find out how he can help his father. Through the help of his friend Ciku (Leila Dayan Opou) he goes to see a witch who gives him seven tasks to complete if he wants to see his father recover. The film then progresses from here with Abila having various encounters in this modern day Nairobi adventure.
  Soul Boy immediately a present day tale, with the teenage protagonist encountering the various issues in the slums; including tribalism, violence, crime and superstition.  Soul Boy lays the issue of tribalism on the table and shows how tribes are distrustful of each other especially after the 2007/08 post-election violence. We all know that young Kenyans are being tribalized by politicians and elders, but it is still troubling to watch it portrayed on screen. You feel very angry when you watch Abila (a Luo) trying to balance his friendship with his boys, while still hanging out with his girl-friend Ciku(a Kikuyu).  It is sad that Kenyans have to make such choices in their everyday lives because of tribal myths and mistrust. Ciku in one scene asks Abila “why didn’t you want to be seen walking with me?” and it is heartbreaking.
  The aspect of spirituality (occult if you will) and myths is also potrayed in a refreshingly non-judgmental way. Abila hears of a witch called Nyawawa (Krysteen Savane) and bravely goes to see her to see if she can help him. If you thought traditional superstitions are dead in modern-day city life then Soul Boy does away with that notion as it defly makes the idea of consulting a witch just another aspect of slum life. The scene where Abila meets the witch and she is giving him the tasks is quite original if only for the camera work and lighting.
  Perhaps the theme of this movie that most hits you upside the head is that of poverty. Soul Boy has one the most vivid and troubling showing of the rich-poor divide that I have seen in a Kenyan made film so far. Abila, while following someone one day finds himself in a white-owned household (presumably settlers’ descendants) in the leafy suburb of Karen. I felt genuinely angry at the contrast between the slums of Kibera and the opulence of protected Karen life, and audibly sighed once or twice. While at this house he finds himself completing one of the tasks and this is the best scene of the film.
  Soul Boy is a movie that was completed in six weeks, and was written by local writer Billy Kahora who does a great job with a first-class and engaging script. There are some lovely performances by all the actors, but a favourite is Abila’s girlfriend Ciku, who potrays a fiercely independent and intelligent teenage girl, not afraid to speak her mind . In one scene, she laments on how all the boys in the neighbourhood are idiots during an argument with Abila. Hawa Essuman clearly did a great job with these two main characters. You really believe that they are best friends who would do anything for each other, and this shows Hawa’s good casting choices. The camera work in this film is also top-notch and the beauty of Nairobi, which many of us may miss in our daily hustle is tenderly captured here. Soul Boy manages to create a touching tale of slum life in Kenya and how people still find hope, adventure, love, friendship and family amid the squalor.
  
  
  A positive aspect of Soul Boy is that 80% of those involved with the film are Kenyans, but one still cannot ignore the fact that it is funded by a German company. It is a sad indictment of this country’s arts industry that we still have to rely on foreign funding to create our own stories. Maybe those involved in the Kenyan film-industry need to be more forceful and united in getting local funding and support for their projects. Soul Boy is a good film (it won audience award at Rotterdam Film Festival) but there is no reason this could not have been a 100% Kenyan-made film. All in all, Soul Boy a step in the right direction and announces the arrival of Hawa Essuman, a talented filmmaker who could become a force to be reckoned with in the Kenyan film industry.
  "One of the best Kenyan films I have seen in a long time, maybe ever. Go see it, support Kenyan talent."
  KC  rating: 4 /5 Stars
  (Soul Boy is now playing at Silverbird Prestige Plaza for a limited two week run. Also look out for the DVD.)

  
  

• Video: The Washington Projects - "Light Up The Dark"

  Posted: March 10, 2010, 10:22 am by KenyaChristian

  First single & video off of the album entitled "Light Up The Dark".
  
  

  
  

• Video: The Remnant - "Know This"

  Posted: March 9, 2010, 4:03 pm by KenyaChristian

  featuring Scar
  
  
  
  "in the words of Jane Austen I've never been more sure/if I loved you less I could probably talk about it more"

  
  

• May God bless The Woman

  Posted: March 8, 2010, 3:14 pm by KenyaChristian

  As a man I have to say I doubt there is any greater creation God blessed this earth with than a woman. In my context I have to especially praise my black women who continue to excel, grow, praise, care, nurture and love despite the odds being stacked against them for centuries. They have especially supported the black man who some people have tried their best to destroy. But if it wasn't for the black woman's support, I don't know if the black man would have survived. We may have never had a Barack Obama without a Michelle.
  
  
  Special shout out to Ann Njogu who recently won the International Women of Courage Award(IWOC) for her tireless work on women's issues. Another shoutout to Mo'Nique for her Oscar win for best supporting actress in the modern-day classic movie Precious.
  Ann Njogu
  BONUS: May God Bless The Woman, a poem
  

  
  

• Soul Boy @ Silverbird

  Posted: March 8, 2010, 11:25 am by KenyaChristian

  SYNPOSIS

  Someone has stolen his soul, mumbles the father as he sits huddled in a corner. Abila is shocked and confused but wants to help his father and goes in search of a suitable cure.Supported by his friend Shiku who is the same age as him, he learns that his father has gambled his soul away in the company of a spiritual woman.

  The teenager doesn't want to believe it and sets about looking for the witch. When he finally discovers her in the darkest corner of the ghetto, she gives him seven challenging tasks to save his father's lost soul. Abila embarks on an adventurous journey which leads him right through the microcosm of his home town.

  
  
  Will be showing at Silverbird Prestige Plaza. for 2 weeks beginning March 4th @ 7pm. Check Silverbird website for updates
  Previously: Soul Boy (Inside Look)

  
  

• Jean-Michel Basquiat : The Radiant Child (Trailer)

  Posted: March 6, 2010, 5:53 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  
  

  Director Tamra Davis pays homage to her friend in this definitive documentary but also delves into Basquiat as an iconoclast. His dense, bebop-influenced neoexpressionist work emerged while minimalist, conceptual art was the fad; as a successful black artist, he was constantly confronted by racism and misconceptions. Much can be gleaned from insider interviews and archival footage, but it is Basquiat’s own words and work that powerfully convey the mystique and allure of both the artist and the man.

  
  

• Video: Why Did I Get Married Too? (Trailer)

  Posted: March 5, 2010, 10:51 pm by KenyaChristian

  The first one was really good. This one seems, a tad over the top. I'm just hoping Tyler Perry doesn't overdo this series because of the money it generates, I could be wrong though.
  
  

  
  

• Tarica June - "Why I Write"

  Posted: March 5, 2010, 3:18 pm by KenyaChristian

  Hey folks, hope you've had a great week. Today I'm posting a song from female MC Tarica June. This is a track from her debut mixtape Moonlight Revolution. I'm also using this post to test the new flash format I'll be using to post up tracks(I tell you blogger can be a pain sometimes, but I'm sticking with her,lol:)
  
  
  
  

  
  

• iHub Launch today!

  Posted: March 3, 2010, 6:00 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

  iHub – Nairobi’s Innovation Hub for the technology community – is here! It’s an open space for the technologists, investors, tech companies and hackers in the area. This space is a tech community facility with a focus on young entrepreneurs, web and mobile phone programmers and designers. It is part open community workspace (co-working), part vector for investors and VCs and part incubator.

  
  Date: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Venue: 4th Flr, Bishop Magua Centre, Ngong Rd(opp Uchumi)Time: 5:30pm - 8:30pmEntry: Invite only (apply here to get your ticket, spaces limited)
  The launch will also be streaming live on UStream--------------------------------------------------------UPDATE: Pictures of the iHub launch at Africa Knows & KenyanPoet
  iHub Nairobi opens
  

  
  

• Video: Nneka interview with Causecast

  Posted: March 2, 2010, 7:51 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  Nneka discusses the oil situation in the Niger Delta and how it degrades the community in her homeland. Her involvement with Remember Ken Saro-Wiwa Movement raises awareness by speaking about the issues at her shows and on the radio.

  
  

• Video: 15 Questions Christian women need to ask a man before getting involved with him

  Posted: March 2, 2010, 4:48 pm by KenyaChristian

  by Pastor Cox
  

  
  

• Video: Canton Jones - "My Year"

  Posted: March 2, 2010, 4:46 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: GRITS - "Fly Away"(Hope Edition)

  Posted: March 2, 2010, 4:23 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Sho Baraka - "Oh Well"

  Posted: March 2, 2010, 4:11 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  
  "Revolutionary Died"
  

  
  

• John Githongo @ Kuweni Serious! (Pt.2)

  Posted: March 1, 2010, 11:58 am by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: Mavuno Worship Cairo Experience

  Posted: February 27, 2010, 2:43 am by KenyaChristian

  
  Mavuno Cairo Project from KWELI Mag on Vimeo.
  
  Mavuno Worship Project attended the Cairo Festival in November 2009

  
  

• Video Hits Package 1.1.9

  Posted: February 26, 2010, 11:56 pm by KenyaChristian

  Mos Def with his classic "Umi Says" from his 1998 album Black On Both Sides.
  
  
  
  "I want black people to be free, to be free, to be free.."
  Previously: VHP 1.1.8- The Scorpions

  
  

• Video: Gideon's Army - "Warn Dem"

  Posted: February 26, 2010, 2:34 am by KenyaChristian

  featuring Daddy Owen, Dunco, Rufftone, Verbal, Mr.Lee, Harry G & Alvo
  
  

  
  

• Music Seen! Ledisi - Turn Me Loose

  Posted: February 24, 2010, 1:51 am by KenyaChristian

  
  Ledisi is an artist slowly on the rise. She seems to be a musician whose talent will force people to take notice sooner or later, and it seems the Grammy’s have taken notice before most of the public. Lost & Found was her 2007 release that sold over 200,000 copies and got two Grammy nods, and she wasted no time in releasing Turn me Loose which the Grammy family also gave two thumbs up(noms).
  
  
  The intro "Runnin’" is a force of a song with Ledisi putting a lot of feeling into it, she’s talking about her struggle in just going through everyday life and not giving up, which a lot of us can identify with .The intro shoes the power Ledisi is capable of delivering vocally and emotionally. The songs eerily pitched sirens sound similar to a thriller movie and help evoke the feeling of a psychological and physical struggle. If you have any doubts about Ledisi’s talent by the end of the intro they should really be put to rest; peep the way she adlibs with “I don’t feel too good...” like she’s physically sick, brilliant. The next song “Everything Changes” has thematic similarities with the personal classic “Alright” from her previous album, and could almost be seen as a part two of the song, it is well produced track with some nice horns. On it she is frank about trying to discover self-love “there was a time I gave up on people/disappointment led me just to be alone/then one day I was told to just stand on my own/ and it’s so true."
  
  “Higher Than This” is a song about feeling the love of The Most High and has some cool modern R&B production. Produced by legends Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis it is a song that wouldn’t be out of place on a Mary Mary album. Ledisi shines on “Alone” a well-written track and honest track about relationship abandonment and loneliness, anyone who has had and lost love can definitely relate to this. “Love Never Changes” has a smooth 70’s soul feel to it, and one wouldn’t be surprised if that great decade is the core of Ledisi’s musical influence.
  
  “Knockin’” has a really a knocking groove and is another high point of an already good album. With hard-hitting snares, blues guitar and organ you can almost feel the joy Ledisi gets in singing these types of songs. Ledisi is talking about not letting negativity and evil get a foot into the door of her life (soul) “I hear you knockin’ but you can’t come in/ hear you knockin but you ain’t gon win..”, Ledisi is clearly versatile with her sound. If you thought she was only an “old-school” artist though you’re mistaken, peep “I Need Love” a jamming song with a banging beat that you could imagine Keyshia Cole singing.
  
  The most attractive thing in my opinion about Ledisi is her openness and honesty. She is not afraid to sing of her weaknesses and vulnerabilities in her music. With today’s mainstream music so blatantly and disgustingly plastic it’s like a bucket of ice water to listen to realness on a soul track. Ledisi is also an artist in touch with her spirituality and femininity. She shows you don’t have to be raunchy to create great music as a secular female artist. Ledisi just seems like someone you would want to know because of her spirit of beating the odds, and there is nothing more fulfilling in life than overcoming.
  
  ‘Ledisi is a diamond in the rough in the modern Soul/R&B world that has been lacking well, soul. If you like the genre, do not sleep on Ledisi.”
  
  ::KC blog:: rating 4.5/5 stars
  
  
  "Higher Than This"
  

  
  

• Video: Mr.T - "Bado Nimesimama"

  Posted: February 23, 2010, 1:17 am by KenyaChristian

  featuring Kevoh Yout, MC Dice & Shem
  
  

  
  

• Video: Daddy Owen - "Kupe De Calle"(Tobina)

  Posted: February 23, 2010, 12:52 am by KenyaChristian

  featuring Kerah & Dunco
  
  
  
  I'm feeling the kapungala sound, I just hope Kenyan artists dont end up overdoing it like what happened with kapuka. Dunco really shines on this song..

  
  

• Video: The Africans

  Posted: February 23, 2010, 4:07 pm by KenyaChristian

  Here is a clip from Prof.Ali Mazrui's classic 1986 film The Africans: A Triple Heritage I remember watching this years ago in NTV. Wouldn't mind watching it again...
  
  

  
  

• Video: Sauti Za Busara Festival (clips)

  Posted: February 23, 2010, 4:01 pm by KenyaChristian

  Here are a couple of clips from the recently held Sauti Za Busara music festival in Stone Town, Zanzibar.*sigh...wish I was there.
  
  
  Friday evening during Busara: MORE FIRE from May van Gent on Vimeo.
  
  
  Tandiswa performing at Busara: SOUL POWER!! from May van Gent on Vimeo.
  
  Check out pictures here

  
  

• Video: "Soul Boy" (Inside look)

  Posted: February 23, 2010, 3:40 pm by KenyaChristian

  A film by Ghanaian-Kenyan Hawa Essuman
  
  
  
  

  Abila (14) lives in one of the most miserable slums in Africa. His girlfriend Shiku belongs to a different tribe, as the result of which he is not really allowed to fraternise with her. And then one drunken night his father gambled away his own soul. With support from Tom Tykwer, the Kenyan film maker Hawa Essuman turned it into a sparkling film.

  Read more here. Check out a review here

  
  

• Video: John Githongo @ Kuweni Serious!

  Posted: February 23, 2010, 2:43 pm by KenyaChristian

  Pt.1
  

  
  

• Video: Togetherness Supreme (Trailer)

  Posted: February 23, 2010, 2:03 am by KenyaChristian

  I would have preferred if the film wasn't biased to one party or the other(this appears pro-ODM).Either way it looks well shot and interesting, will update you on screenings if I spot any.
  
  
  
  

  From the making of the short film KIBERA KID in 2005 through the current filming of the feature film TOGETHERNESS SUPREME, the people of Kibera, especially the youth, have been at the center of the entire process. Kiberans have worked with Hot Sun Foundation on the feature film project (originally titled the KIBERA KID feature film project) for three years. People of Kibera want to share their stories with the world to show a new, realistic, entertaining picture of urban Africa in a feature film - an historic first in the cinematic world.

  
  Read more here. Check out the website here and here

  
  

• Video: Krystal ft.Verbal - "Whisper"

  Posted: February 22, 2010, 1:18 am by KenyaChristian

  I'm liking this song, it's really grown on me. enjoy
  
  

  
  

• Video: Afya Kenya Medical Camp

  Posted: February 22, 2010, 3:25 am by KenyaChristian

  This is really inspiring and is the type of stuff I really hope to see more of and get involved with.I think these kinds of initiatives are what the future of Kenya is all about, not the current circuses and gossip talk thats dominating our minds and time.My advice..block out the noise, and keep your eyes focused on what's really important around you.This past weekend I was involved in some community service and it was really reaffirming to what I want to be a part of as a citizen of Kenya(and the world). The future is here, watch this space..
  
  
  
  

  Afya Kenya Foundation is a registered charity trust organization based in Nairobi, Kenya that seeks to provide quality health care to the rural and urban poor through free community health outreach camps. It was set up by student doctors who saw the need for such an initiative in the course of their apprenticeship.

  read more here. Visit the website here
  
  
  Speaking of which Afya Kenya Foundation will be holding an Art For Afya fundraising gig on Wednesday February 24th, 2010. It will be held at Mwenda's, Utalii House(along Uhuru Highway) from 7:30pm-11:00pm. Entrance is Ksh 500 and Ksh 400 (for STA card holders) Contact: +254722118872
  Bonus blog link: Someone Lied To You, Mwananchi - 3: Your Country Is NOT Going To The Dogs...!!!!! (Terms and conditions apply) by Njoki Ngumi

  
  

• Video: Michael Soi @ Kuweni Serious!

  Posted: February 19, 2010, 6:25 am by KenyaChristian

  
  
  

  “We Need To Get People Who Are Not This Greedy”

  Michael Soi is a visual artist based in Kenya. He graduated from art school in 1996, and has been making visual commentary on Kenyan social and political trends. We sat down with him one rainy afternoon and discussed what he thinks Kenyans need to do in 2012.

  
  

• Video: Kanjii Mbugua - "Dream Again"

  Posted: February 19, 2010, 5:44 am by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: J.Blessing & Billy Frank - "Nijaze"

  Posted: February 15, 2010, 3:55 am by KenyaChristian

  
  

• Video: "We Are The Word (For Haiti)"

  Posted: February 13, 2010, 1:00 pm by KenyaChristian

  "We Are the World 25 for Haiti", a re-make of the classic anthem, brings together more than 75 musicians and celebrities (including Miley, Lil' Wayne, and Wyclef) all singing to raise funds for earthquake relief in Haiti. Watch, sing along and donate your support."

  
  

• My first eclipse...

  Posted: February 13, 2010, 4:57 am by KenyaChristian

  This was the best shot I got during the solar eclipse that occurred on 15th January. I took it with a Canon Digital Camera.I'd never viewed a solar eclipse before, so i was pretty excited about it. It was kinda weird in the morning, i was wondering why the sky was soo hazy and cloudy from real early. I'm like, has this eclipse started..nini? Well, didn't see much except grey skies until like sometime between 8 and 9 am when the sun suddenly burst through the clouds and you knew something weird was occurring. I viewed the eclipse through my camera screen(si, the harmful rays can't be reproduced digitally? hehe) Anyway, my eyes weren't damaged(I hope:) It was a wonderful experience, I even captured some of it on video camera. The weather was really cold during the eclipse, and then afterwards it was suddenly sunny and the clouds took their cue and floated off. A weird observation I made was that a couple of crows were flying around in circles screaming(crowing) and basically acting weird; I'm certain the heavenly event had something to do with their psychosis. Overall I'm glad I saw it at least once in my life, what was your experience like?

  
  

• annieSoul - "Mwanamuziki"

  Posted: February 11, 2010, 3:08 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  

  annieSoul a producer, singer and songwriter who released her debut album Mwanamuzuki late last year. She also got accepted to the Berklee Music College where she is currently studying.

  Listen: annieSoul - "Mwanamuziki"
  Bonus: "Under the Rug"

  
  

• Video: Eko Dydda - "Me & My House"

  Posted: February 11, 2010, 3:59 am by KenyaChristian

  I've already seen like 3 other rappers trying to copy Eko Dydda's rapping style. Get your own swag guys..lol
  
  
  

  
  

• Mad Love Lounge: Valentine's "Pendo Chizi" Edition

  Posted: February 10, 2010, 4:49 pm by KenyaChristian

  
  Date:February 14th,2010Venue:August 7th Memorial ParkTime: 2pm to 6pmEntrance: Ksh.100

  
  

• Just A Band - "Ha-He"

  Posted: February 10, 2010, 4:37 pm by KenyaChristian

  This is the 2nd single from Just A Band's 82 album. Enjoy!
  
  
  
  Listen: Just A Band - "Ha He"

  
  

• DoMaJe - "Way Down In The Hole"

  Posted: February 10, 2010, 3:37 am by KenyaChristian

  This is my fav version of the theme song from Season 4 of The Wire which was the best season:) short but nice..
  
  Listen: DoMaJe - "Way Down in the Hole"
  Previously: The Best TV Series Ever?

  
  

• Video: Dela - "Ulivyo"

  Posted: February 9, 2010, 5:33 am by KenyaChristian

  This is the first video off of Dela's debut album Paukwa. Video by the one and only Jim Chuchu. p.s check out Dela's eyelashes..verrih gud
  
  
  
  Previously: The Kenyan "Hype?"

  
  

• Maker Faire Africa 2010

  Posted: February 6, 2010, 5:00 pm by KenyaChristian

  The aim is to identify, spur and support local innovation. At the same time, Maker Faire Africa would seek to imbue creative types in science and technology with an appreciation of fabrication and by default manufacturing. The long-term interest here is to cultivate an endogenous manufacturing base that supplies innovative products in response to market needs.

  Read more here. Visit the website 
  Date: August 6-7th 2010Venue: Sarakasi Dome, Ngara, Nairobi
  Maker Faire Africa 2009: Ghana
  

  
  

• Video: Muthoni - "Mikono Kwenye Hewa"

  Posted: February 4, 2010, 1:24 am by KenyaChristian

  This is the first video off Muthoni's latest album The Human Condition, in stores now!
  
  
  
  I like the way the video was shot in that it has a story and also some humour.It also has a message but is fun at the same time, plus Muthoni is a very talented lyricist. I'm hoping that with artists like Muthoni gaining exposure urban music with a message will get back the limelight because Kenyan radio kinda shunned akina these guys, and there's been a vacuum for a while now.So, keep the good tunes coming Muthoni, you've got a supporter here!
  
  Previously: Muthoni interview with RNW

  
  

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Guess what ... yeah ... fish cakes.

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