April is Jazz Appreciation month and I asked Jazz aficionado and Dj, David Njuki, to help me out with this week's playlist.
He had this to say about the pla...
The internet doesn’t forget. This is one of those lines that has been repeated so much it sounds like it belongs in a motivational event. Ever attended one of...
A week after announcing the MPESA rates would rise, Safaricom has released the new rates which will take effect from today.
Charges for transactions worth ...
Jim Chuchu is a Visual artist and 1/4 of the Super-Nerdy Electronic Music/Art collective, Just A Band. He says that he is in-between careers.
Not Jim Chuchu
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Akil Ahmed is a Spoken Word artist who is diverse about his content and ideas. He focuses on sensitive and overlooked issues in the world. He is also a Slam Afr...
Robert Alai is a Kenyan blogger and social justice activist. He is the founder of leading tech blog techmtaa, a trained ICT System Analyst and self-appointed cr...
Ever had issues with getting change on public transport or ever wanted to track how much you spend on transport every month? Well the Beba card is your solution...
Patricia Wangechi Kihoro is a singer, actress, radio news anchor and sporadic blogger living and working in Nairobi. She loves to take pictures, long drives a...
Zama spends most of her work week working as a customer operations management consultant mostly in the telecommunications and public services industries in Sou...
Evans Muriu claims to be just an ordinary guy with an accounting background in business. He plans to retire at 30. He is passionate about giving back to the com...
Pinky Ghelani is an avid Newcastle United Fan (apparently her husband made her say that), a media consultant - which means she chats with many people in the me...
The 100 Girls in 100 Days campaign was launched last week and it's main target is to raise Kshs. 10 million which will be used to send 100 girls to high sc...
Jay Muigai is a skinny filmmaker with the desire to tell stories through a lens, show sadness in frames and happiness on scores, hustling until she gets to gre...
There were grenade attacks in Nairobi yesterday where 6 people died and at least 68 were injured.
Now CNN instead of reporting it as such went on to claim th...
Our 5 interviewee this week is Moses Sitati, an economist and R&D specialist with the Nokia Research Centre in Nairobi. He works in the field collecting use...
The Nissan Challenge is an innovative campaign by DT Dobie which seeks to prove that Nissan's range of pick-ups have the ability, the reliability and the durab...
Kimani (@dwanzi_) is a movie lover, watcher and reviewer. Sometimes he writes and blogs. Is a student of life and people. Loves to laugh. Doesn't like to desc...
Afro-fusion bands Lele and Aziza have come together to bring you NDOTO, a musical story of Urban Hopes and Dreams. This live music concert will be on Friday 2...
Below is a list I've compiled of the most viewed Kenyan videos in 2011. Music videos, which you'd expect to appear in such a list, are notably absent. Also, the...
In 2001, Karanja Macharia came up with a brilliant idea. He developed a system that could automatically reply to a coded text with meaningful information.
He...
From Rio to Nairobi, Berlin to Mumbai, and everywhere in between, mobile technology continues to change our world in exciting and unpredictable ways. People all...
The Samsung Ch@t 222 is a 2G GSM Dual SIM phone with a 220 x 176 pixels TFT screen and a QWERTY keypad. It also has a 1000 entry phone book and a 50 MB of Int...
Miller Genuine Draft (MGD) by Crown Beverages Limited-a subsidiary of SAB Miller Plc- has been introduced into the Kenyan market. The newly launched beer will ...
Richot brandy was recently rebranded and it's because of this that East African Breweries Limited (EABL) invited me, other bloggers and journalists to a tour of...
Maneno Matamu will feature poetry performances exclusively in African languages and it will take place on 10th December from 4pm at the Kenya National Theatr...
The Koroga II exhibition will showcase the poetographs created through the project. The opening of the exhibition will take place on the 10th of December, 6 -...
Kojo Baffoe is an editor , writer, poet and entrepreneur with origins in Ghana and Germany, raised in Lesotho, and based in Johannesburg. He has a B.Commerce ...
Tomi Oladipo is a Nigerian journalist. Follow him, @tomi_oladipo, for more information about him.
We asked him a few questions and this is what he had to say...
Trying to describe the energy and feel in the tent at the KFeet center where the Vivian Green concert was held is like trying to describe the taste of water aft...
This video, an Afro-Scifi music-mentary, was written and directed by Bobb Muchiri of Studio Ang for Just A Band (the super nerdy African Music and Art Collectiv...
Airtel, StanChart, MasterCard launch virtual card on mobile phone
Airtel Africa, Standard Chartered Bank and MasterCard Worldwide have launched the world’s...
If you know me then you know that i love books and reading them. So you can imagine how happy i was when i ran into a hawker on the streets of Nairobi yesterda...
Capital FM presents The Lounge Unplugged (Fanatic Edition) with Vivian Green , Featuring Neema and Fena. It shall be on the 15th October 2011 at the Kefit Ce...
In this TED talk, Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story abo...
This hilarious poetry performance by Tylor Mali is a must-see if you are a publisher, an editor or an author. Tylor performed this at the very first Page Meets ...
Actor, Poet, Rapper, Beatboxer & Event Organizer, Pepe Haze has released a music video for the track 'Rain On My Lips' featuring Steph Mckee. The video i...
Nancie Mwai is a fashion blogger, stylist and editor of Kasha Magazine. Fashion is her daily bread and she lives by the Motto "Life is too short to blend in"
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Nairobi's Finest band Edition 2 will feature performances from 6 different entities which are: Afrology, Lele, Jemedari, Kevin Man Njoro, Checkmate &am...
If there is anything this past week has taught us, it's that Kenyans love their country. We will come together when there is an emergency and stand with our b...