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October 16, 2011
22:03
A tale of two afflictions
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On this particular morning she woke up feeling less than 100%. Her body was experiencing ill sensations from a combination of the previous night’s consumption and the lack of food in her alcohol scorched digestive system. Although she was quite accustomed to regular Friday night binges followed promptly by Saturday morning hangovers, her body was [...]
August 20, 2011
20:28
Mwistar, the urban legend … of sorts
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I took some time to rethink the direction that The African Accent is taking. I have concluded that I should keep it as it is – casual, personal and a bit rough on the edges. Although I am now doing some formal writing for a few sites going for that African angle, I don’t want [...]
March 05, 2011
2:27
AU & ICC: Who holds the power?
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When the International Criminal Court (ICC) indicted Sudan president, Omar Bashir, for crimes in Darfur, The African Union (AU) strongly objected to the arrest warrant issued for him. In fact, only South Africa and Botswana openly declared that they would arrest Bashir if he dared travel to their jurisdiction. Others, including Kenya, were not so [...]
February 22, 2011
3:03
Feb 28th, 2011: Stand For Kenya
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Courtesy of Kenya 28 Feb We are extremely proud to be Kenyan! We are proud of our beautiful country! We are proud of our diversity cultures and traditions! We are proud of our heroes! We are proud of our high achievers! We are proud of being hustlers! We are proud of our hoods! We are proud [...]
February 02, 2011
16:15
Snowmageddon: Judgement Day
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There air was charged with excitement on Tuesday. It was as if His Holiness the Pope was going to make a personal visit the very next day. Television and radio shows, online social media, newspapers, even water-cooler gossip was abuzz about one thing: the big one. The local meteorologist was an overnight sensation – Justin [...]
January 02, 2011
19:11
2010 in review
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The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 13,000 times in 2010. That’s about 31 full 747s. [...]
December 22, 2010
0:22
African Politics: The village and its insecure child
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African leaders south of the Sahara too often use the defense of political interference every time the lens of the world zooms in on a serious issue. Don’t get me wrong: I’m not suggesting that African countries are immune to political interference, no. I am saying that the region has many countries clinging to their [...]
August 09, 2010
21:59
The girl baby, Mwigangstar
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Our relationship started at birth – her birth. Despite my family’s concern that I might be jealous of Mwigangstar (since I had been the family ‘baby’ for eight years), we hit it off well from the beginning. I watched over her while the housemaid busied herself with domestic chores before Mwigangstar could even crawl. The [...]

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