Kenya
CMD: KENYA CMD Centre for Multiparty Democracy, read more here/
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Henry Chakava has passed away
Kenyan publisher Henry Chakava passed away in Nairobi on Friday, March 8, 2024. Here/.
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Kiswahili
Kiswahili makes it to Google AI platform as first African language, link here/
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Mount Kenya / Kirinyaga: Place of Brightness
Mount Kenya
/ Kirinyaga: Place of Brightness
”Before the arrival of the Europeans, Mount Kenya was called Kirinyaga, or “Place of Brightness”, by the people who lived in its shadow. The Kikuyus believed that God dwelled on the mountain, and that the rains, clean drinking water, green vegetation, and crops, all of which had a central place in their lives, flowed from it. When Christian missionaries arrived in the area toward the end of the nineteenth century, they told the local people that God did not live on Mount Kenya, but rather in heaven, and that the mountain and its forests, previously considered secret grounds, could be encroached upon and the reverence to them abandoned. The people believed this and were persuaded to consider their relationship with the mountain, and indeed, nature itself as primitive, worthless, and an obstacle to development and progress in an age of modernity and advances in science and technology. This did not happen only, of course, to the people who lived around Mount Kenya.” P. 173
”Before the arrival of the Europeans, Mount Kenya was called Kirinyaga, or “Place of Brightness”, by the people who lived in its shadow. The Kikuyus believed that God dwelled on the mountain, and that the rains, clean drinking water, green vegetation, and crops, all of which had a central place in their lives, flowed from it. When Christian missionaries arrived in the area toward the end of the nineteenth century, they told the local people that God did not live on Mount Kenya, but rather in heaven, and that the mountain and its forests, previously considered secret grounds, could be encroached upon and the reverence to them abandoned. The people believed this and were persuaded to consider their relationship with the mountain, and indeed, nature itself as primitive, worthless, and an obstacle to development and progress in an age of modernity and advances in science and technology. This did not happen only, of course, to the people who lived around Mount Kenya.” P. 173
(The Challenge for Africa, Wangari Maathai, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Arrow Books 2009)
This is a transcript of the chapter "Speaking Mother Tongues" in the book
"The Challenge for Africa, Wangari Maathai, Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Arrow Books 2009" Link here/
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Ngugi wa Thiong’o on language empires, how to dismantle them
Wachira Kigotho, 22 August 2024
Colonialists never left Africa after independence but have continued to expand their empires through language domination, according to Kenyan academic and author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, currently a distinguished English and comparative literature professor at the University of California, Irvine. Link here/
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Private photos Kenya, 23.07.2013/
Private photos, Kenya 2, here/
Out of Africa (best photos from Uganda, Kenya, Zanzibar) 2013, here/
Videos from Uganda Kenya og Zanzibar 2013, here/
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