Kenya: Armed and dangerous Desperate and ruthless gangs find firearms widely available in Nairobi’s slums, presenting a constant security risk to the city’s residents A message posted on a Kenyan Facebook group known...
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The art of war
Africa and wars: traditional weapons The advent of the machine gun at the end of the 19th century irrevocably changed the way wars were waged in Africa “Whatever happens, we have got the Maxim gun, and they have not,”...
Digital jump
Kenya: leading in IT innovation M-Pesa money transfer service has led the way to better, faster business By Mark Kapchanga Before 2007, Dickson Rono would rely entirely on Kenya’s slow, cumbersome and expensive banking...
In search of African culture
Perceptions that ethnic African cultures are primitive as measured against a western way of life are not supported by modern anthropology Recently in Kenya, in a remote village deep in the western part of this East...
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