About Daudi Were

Thank you for stopping by and reading Mentalacrobatics. This blog carries my thoughts on the wide range of topics I find fascinating. Such as Africa and her people especially in the relationships they have with their leaders and with each other; the growth of social and citizen media and the way it is changing the world we live for the better; trends in technology; good information as the most powerful resource for development. I also write about football, rugby, cricket, take a couple of pictures and post the occasional podcast.

My name is Daudi Were and I have had a web presence of some sort or the other since 1997. I like to say I started blogging in 2001, that was before I knew what I was doing was called blogging. We were called “webmasters” essentially managing personal regularly updated websites that reflected our personality. Even though I was not sure what it was called, I could tell that we were at the beginning of a revolution that had the potential to fundamentally change the society in which we live from the local, grass root, village level to the macro national and international level.

In 2004 I started the Kenyan Blogs Webring (KBW) to bring individual bloggers together into a community of bloggers. Today KBW has over 700 members, mainly Kenyan bloggers – but with a significant non- Kenyan contingent – writing from across the world. I am also involved in various other online blogging projects which I will write about on this page in the near future.
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The picture on the header of this blog is of the tea plantations in Kericho, Kenya. You can see similar pictures in my “Beautiful Kenya” flickr set.