How to shine your shoes like a soldier

mwirigiAugust 15, 2012

The undisputed champions of polishing shoes are the Armed Forces. In any country around the world the one thing soldiers have in common is the ability to polish...

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Q&A Monday: James Muendo (@Mmuendo)

Staff WriterAugust 13, 2012

James is Currently a Freelance Project Manager, who spends time providing IT solutions to start-ups, SMEs, NGOs and Blue Chip companies. He is passionate about...

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Q&A Monday: Jemedari (@JemedariFlows)

Staff WriterAugust 6, 2012

Jemedari is a live hiphop artist, poet, 56Authentique Brand Ambassador and renaissance man. He also loves basketball and movies. Youtube | KenyaBeats Profile |...

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Flash Mob In Support of The Kenyan Olympic Team, Nameless, Alex & Malonza Interview

Staff WriterAugust 2, 2012

By Bridget Mutua On Friday July 23rd , DStv Kenya launched a great initiative to support our very own Kenyan athletes at the London 2012 Olympics and our l...

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Q&A Monday: Jonathan Kalan (@KalanThinks)

Staff WriterJuly 23, 2012

Jonathan Kalan is an internationally published journalist, photojournalist and blogger specializing in social innovations in emerging markets. A graduate of the...

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Q&A Monday: Mwende Ngao (@MwendeSusu)

Staff WriterJuly 16, 2012

Mwende Ngao is a filmmaker, actress, writer and poet. She enjoys art in all its forms especially film and music. She's a bookaholic, spending more on books than...

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Q&A Monday: Bill Sellanga (@247Blink)

Staff WriterJuly 9, 2012

Bill Bill, otherwise known as 'Blinky Bill' or 'Doctor Boom' is a part of the group Just A Band as a producer and songwriter. He has also just started scoring...

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Q&A Monday: Kahenya

Staff WriterJune 18, 2012

Kahenya Kamunyu is a hustler. He hustles 24/7, then goes home and feeds his gecko. He believes in God, not religion and has spent a lot of time with Buddhist mo...

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Q&A Monday: Idd Salim (@IddSalim)

Staff WriterJune 11, 2012

Idd Salim is a computer engineer biased to developing Mobile Apps, Mobile Games and Web-based systems. He is a freelance software developer and works for his...

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5 Attributes of a Successful Social Media Manager

Mark KaigwaJune 6, 2012

Having been around the digital media industry in Africa for the past five years, it has been amazing to see the kind of calibre of talent that has emerged a...

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Q&A Monday: Bob Collymore (@BobCollymore)

Staff WriterJune 4, 2012

Bob Collymore is the CEO of Safaricom. He is passionate about the company he runs, his friends, flying, music and the arts. He was born in South America...

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Q&A Monday: Marcus Olang’ (@MarcusOlang)

Staff WriterMay 28, 2012

Marcus Olang' is one introvert's cover identity , best known for people-watching, subtle sarcasm and hosting the Breakfast Show on 1 FM 97.1. In his spare time...

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Q&A Monday: Adelle Onyango

Staff WriterMay 21, 2012

Adelle Onyango is a writer, poet and radio host (1 Drive show) at 1 FM. We had a few questions for her and this is what she had to say : (more…)...

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Q&A Monday: Benard Ng’ang’a Maranda (Ng’ang’alito)

Staff WriterMay 14, 2012

Benard Ng'ang'a Maranda, more popularly known as Ng'ang'alito is a production assistant for Citizen TVs Power Breakfast Show. He was the 1st runners up in t...

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The Winners of the Google Zeitgeist Young Minds Announced

Staff WriterMay 8, 2012

The winners of the Zeitgeist Young Minds Competition have been announced and they are: Ada Umeofia, 19 from Nigeria: WeBuilt: Africa is a design-centered so...

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Samsung Launches The Smart App Challenge

Staff WriterMay 8, 2012

Samsung has Launched the ‘SAMSUNG SMART APP CHALLENGE(SSAC) 2012’, a Global Contest for Mobile Application Developers which aims to boost the mobile ecosyst...

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Q&A Monday: Patricia Kihoro (@MissKihoro)

James WamathaiMay 7, 2012

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...

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The Avengers – Film Review

dwanziMay 2, 2012

Film director Joss Whedon was given a mammoth task in bringing half a dozen Marvel superheroes together in one film and create a coherent and entertaining ex...

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Q&A Monday: Zama (@JoziGoddess)

James WamathaiApril 30, 2012

Zama spends most of her work week working as a customer operations management consultant mostly in the telecommunications and public services industries in Sou...

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Q&A Monday : James Mwai (@jmwai)

Staff WriterApril 23, 2012

James Mwai is a mobile and web apps developer based in Nairobi. His most successful app is called AroundMe. It works on Nokia devices and has been downloaded ov...

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Q&A Monday: Evans Muriu (@VanceMuriu)

James WamathaiApril 16, 2012

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...

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Q&A Monday: Emukule Ekirapa (@Emukule)

Staff WriterApril 9, 2012

Emukule Ekirapa is the Director of Red Touch Entertainment. He is also the continental correspondent for Viacom’s MTV Base. As a VJ and event MC in Kenya, Zam...

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Q&A Monday: Pinky Ghelani

James WamathaiApril 2, 2012

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...

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Kikulacho Ki Nguoni Mwako

Julia LoveMarch 30, 2012

Image via One day, around the break up with my 3 year college boyfriend, my mom said to me, “Never give a man everything! You should always keep something...

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Trendwatch: 254 Music

Saliva VicMarch 28, 2012

Greetings Earthling, I have now taken over your Website. Welcome to Trendwatch. My main aim, aside from trying to change the world with my ridiculous perspectiv...

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Q&A Monday: Jackson Biko (@BikoZulu)

Staff WriterMarch 26, 2012

Jackson Biko writes for a living. He has a column in True Love (Last Word) and one on Saturday Nation’s magazine (Man Talk). On top of these he writes for the...

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The Zeitgeist Young Minds Competition 2012

Staff WriterMarch 23, 2012

Zeitgeist is one of Google’s most prominent events, where over 400 of the most influential business leaders and key visionaries from around the world come...

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Review: The Nokia Asha 200

Staff WriterMarch 23, 2012

Introduced at Nokia World 2011, the Nokia Asha 200 is the latest in Nokias range of Twin SIM handsets, it should weigh in at less than or equal to Shs.7,500/= (...

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Introducing the BAKE Blog Awards

Staff WriterMarch 21, 2012

BAKE is a Kenyan organization that promotes online content creation and represents a group of content creators. They have decided to organize bloggers awards t...

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Discovering The Tusker Lite Experience With Joe Thomas

JacMarch 20, 2012

If you were to take a walk on the streets of Nairobi, asking people the song they lost their virginity to, Joe would appear somewhere severally. Others fell...

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Q&A Monday : Kaburo Kobia (@Kaburo)

Staff WriterMarch 19, 2012

Kaburo Kobia is the Project Manager for Local Digital Content at the Kenya ICT Board. Kaburo is also a board advisor for Akira Chix, a Kenyan organization th...

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It is just girls adapting

Julia LoveMarch 14, 2012

Image via When I was about 11 years old my dad opened a video library. He and my mom named it after my little sister who had just been born and named after ...

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Q&A Monday: Jay Muigai (@Skinnyfilmmaker)

James WamathaiMarch 12, 2012

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...

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Q&A Monday: Akona Ndungane (@Akona1)

James WamathaiMarch 5, 2012

Akona Ndungane is an Ad-freak who dabbles in blogging and social activism. We had a few questions for her and this is what she had to say. (more…)...

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Q&A Monday: Wanjiku Mwaurah (@WanjikuMwaurah)

Staff WriterFebruary 27, 2012

Wanjiku Mwaura seeks poetic inspiration from life’s simplicity In 2011, some of her works were published in two anthologies ‘fresh Paint’ and ‘synchron...

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5: Q&A with Moses Sitati – Economist, Nokia Research Centre Nairobi

James WamathaiFebruary 24, 2012

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...

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Done or Dunzo

Julia LoveFebruary 22, 2012

Once, I wrote a poem. It was called, ‘I am the bloody turf’. I wrote the poem when I was going through my first break up with a guy I had dated for clo...

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Q&A Monday: Stephen Musyoka (@Smusyoka)

Staff WriterFebruary 20, 2012

Stephen Musyoka or "Syoks" is well known on Social Media networks in Kenya, He is behind several successful social media marketing campaigns for corporates, br...

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Testing One Two Three

Julia LoveFebruary 15, 2012

Image via I’m one of those graphic thinkers. Growing up I always used pictures and images to think, describe events and cram for exams. I would have a 1...

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Q&A Monday: Jacque Ndinda (@Ndinda_)

Staff WriterFebruary 13, 2012

Jacque Ndinda (@Ndinda_) says that she has been unable to describe herself to other people. Every day, she discovers something that tells her she really does ...

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Mutual Sin

Julia LoveFebruary 9, 2012

When I was growing up, I thought that parents fighting, father’s cheating, husbands (or wives) beating each other up, alcoholic parents you name it, was a t...

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Q&A Monday: Crazy Nairobian (@CrazyNairobian)

Staff WriterFebruary 6, 2012

Crazy Nairobian (@CrazyNairobian) is a (old enough to surf and tweet) year old software developer with a great passion for social media. He is also a writer, po...

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