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Wednesday April 30, 2014 Refuting Myths About Africa’s Poverty Recently I watched a TEDx post on Youtube where the speaker was presenting a talk on what he termed as unlocking wrong myths about Africa. World re-known campaigning and community education expert Simon Moss shared with the audience how he had done some research over some time about the presentation he was making and was amazed at how much Africans understand Africa plus its problems themselves and the resulting solutions they were offering for these problems.    The talk itself was a revelation of the fact that there is always a side of the story that is not told to the people who need to hear that particular information most. Africans have been made to believe that this continent and by extension them, are not doing any better and are only getting worse by the day. This negative kind of information about Africa has been made very available to everyone in the world who would be interested ...

April 29, 2014 The future is richer for most established artists in Kenya.Is there Opportunity Inequality though? Any hardworking artist in Kenya will attest to the fact that making a name for yourself in the industry is no mean feat. But then again the question is whether it is making it in Nairobi as the art  center  of the country or in Kenya that has in the past few years positioned itself as the best place to be an artist at in the whole of East and Central Africa. With the launch of the first modern art auction in Nairobi last November by Circle Art Agency, the city under the sun drew attention from all over the world and definitely positioned itself as the best place to be at in the region if you are a professional artist. And even after the art auction ended, there have been a great deal of art events and gatherings in the city that have augmented even further the gains made in and by the arts fraternity in Kenya. More art centers to promote establish...

Thursday April 24, 2014 The Internet needs Content. Create! For thousands of years libraries were known to be the one place you could access books and other reads from. You had to physically go to access the information. There wasn’t an alternative of where to get resources to study for your exams for example or looking for the correct spelling and pronunciation of a word other than the dictionary that is in the library. “The book in the library says this! We can’t do that! …” I can imagine some library loyalist saying that to defend what he had read in the library arguing with someone who had not read from a book in the library but was probably right! And so people had made it cool to have a large collection of books kept safely in a certain shelf in the house where only fathers for example could access the books. It is even still a common thing to flip the cover of a book and find the writings “XXXX family library” In short, there is satisfaction in having content ...

Wednesday April 23, 2014. This Is The Social Innovation Safari! (Part 3) Recently I got a chance to catch up with Bestoon from the Social Innovation Safari through Wats app where we got to share a lot. I pitched the idea of him sharing his experience during the Safari with us through an interview to be conducted through e-mail then to be shared on my blog and he responded to the proposal positively. Here are his accounts of the just ended East African Social Innovation Safari. TG: This Safari was the first of its kind in East Africa. The participants and coaches were from all over the world.Having taken part up to the very end of it, are you positive that the insights imparted on participants are practicable in all disciplines and regions of the world? Bestoon: Thanks so much for having me. Absolutely! I have to admit that in the beginning I was very hesitant and was pessimistic about the merger of my background and having to conduct this safari in...