There’s nothing better I can do for you this Friday than let you click the arrow above. At a time of poisonous tribal discord that’s disturbing my sleep with apocalyptic futures, I give you REFUGE!
How perfectly named! Nairobi’s new Kid Band. Not a Boy Band because the inspirational lead singer isn’t. Actually it should be called the UN Band. All call Nairobi home, but only one, Ike, was born in Kenya. The others hail from Belgium, Eritrea, the US, Ethiopia and Bolivia. Nairobi? Are you kidding me?
Will Richard Quest get home? Quest is in Kenya for the 
Melania Trump’s week-long trip to Africa ended in disgrace. Two of Africa’s most powerful women, one in Nigeria and one in Kenya, bitterly criticized her for coming, going so far as to call her a “racist.”
Richard Quest of CNN arrives Nairobi today for a multiple day visit exploring the country’s economic potential. His reports will appear on CNN’s “Quest Means Business.”
At the end of six days in two different big game reserves in South Africa each of my two separate groups was beaming. They’d seen leopards, lions, wild dogs, black and white rhino, elephant, honey badger, multiple kinds of antelope … it was a dream come true! They’d seen everything in the wild!
Kenya tries too hard to be western. It even started to reign in widespread corruption, trying to achieve that fine line that western countries manage between corruption and lobbying.
Twenty years ago this morning I scurried about my Garden Cottage room in the Norfolk Hotel in Nairobi grabbing all sorts of pieces of paper and maps and hastily stuffing them into my briefcase. I was late for my 10:30a meeting with my transport manager.
If this were a decade ago yesterday would have marked the start of another civil war in Kenya. But times have changed. The elite reign unbothered by humanity.
Look to the Dark Continent for light at the end of the tunnel. Cautiously.
Our universe is composed of the natural world and our human imprint on it. Rarely the twain shall meet in a modern world. But from time to time they do: look at northern Kenya, today.
As the world fractures, the Chinese/African partnership of the last two decades is also coming apart, and the cleaver is racism. It’s a remarkable story and one that mirrors similar stories all around the world.
Recently on a local birdwalk with some neophytes my colleague guide and I knew that we had to find something big quick. Then as luck would have it in swept a turkey vulture and with great enthusiasm we began explaining all the marvelous things about it.
British and Americans a century ago thought Kenya would become a major cotton producer, thought hippos ate bushes (they don’t), and were shooting so many elephants that most of the large tuskers were already gone.
Within the last few days Tanzania has restricted free speech and Kenya has loosened it. It’s one of several ongoing political trends separating the once inseparable neighbors showcasing Kenya as the more attractive destination for foreign visitors and investors.
Wonder if we’re in a new cold war? Take a look at how Africa responded to the opening of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem yesterday.