October 2005

Last time was kidogo easy, this one is slightly harder. Here are your clues:

Both these men have dubious formal education qualifications, despite this they both managed to rise to the top of the political pile. They both won dubious elections in their respective countries. They both give speeches that make us scratch our heads and wonder what they are talking about as they invent many new words as they go along. They are both physical fit and teetotal (apparently). They both never miss church on a Sunday. Come on now, guess the presidents!

Hmm I think I gave too much away in the clues.

Whaddayamean you didn’t notice that blogging has been light for a while? What have I been doing? Well I’ve been doing what all men do when you women leave us to our own devices. You don’t know what that is? Would you like to know? Or you would, would you! Well then turn on your speakers or put on your headphones (if you are at work you might want to make sure that no one can see you screen or you might have some explaining to do) and click here [wmv file 1.5 MB].

I accept that many people do not know that Kenya failed to qualify for the 2006 World Cup. But if you are an entrepreneur and pay for web server space and pay for a team of designers and buy materials and send out thousands of spam emails would you not, at the very least, check before printing the t-shirts? Yours for a very reasonable fee of “only” USD 25.99.

Right wing bloggers are
going
nuts; even they can’t believe how far Bush will go to hook his pals up. They let all that drama about Halliburton slide, they even defended him for appointing Michael Brown. But now he has gone too far for them. Hehehe!

Bush reminds me of this kido we used to roll, well stroll, with, back in the day when my cousins lived at Kakamega High. We were all about 7 or 8 years old and this jamaa, who was the son of one of the teachers, was the only guy (probably in the whole of Kenya at the time) who had his own proper official football AND a unlimited supply of Weetabix. And not just at breakfast, I’m talking 24 hour Weetabix access here anytime of day for him and his pals. The guy was also as moody as hell. If he woke up on the right side of the bed then football and weetabix was enjoyed by those of us in the inner circle. If the guy was in a bad mood (probably because you beat his team at football the previous day) nobody got anything. Point is it was good to be his pal because you got the hook up. I wonder if Bush is accepting applications for friends, I miss unlimited Weetabix.

Enable flash and turn up your computer speakers for Force Ministries which sees no irony in having bible verses about the kingdom of heaven next to pictures of a menacing solider carrying a massive gun. Well so long as their hearts are in the right place it’s all good right? isn’t it? Huh? (By the way I should have linked their site before the redesign. Back then it looked even scarier!)

Salma Qureshi, a Kenyan born British Muslim (now there is a title if you ever wanted one), is raising eyebrows as she persists with her quest to become an imam. That would make her the first female imam in Britain. Good on her. If it all works out then Qureshi could have a larger and more fundamental positive impact on the British, and by extension global, Muslim communities than any government based initiative. (Although the website doesn’t carry any reference to her Kenyan roots the radio programme did.) I hope Qureshi gets a warmer reception than Amina Wadud who had a fatwa issued against her for leading prayers in New York.

Qureshi was interviewed as part of the BBC’s “Who Runs Your World” series which conspiracy theorists who like to make scary noisy will be happy to know also includes sections on Opus Dei (insert your own scary noisy here) and the Bilderberg Group (insert your own even scarier noise here).