Grahamstown, South Africa. Where the players play.

September 9, 2006 in Africa, Blogs, Travel by Mentalacrobatics | 8 comments

From next week I will be blogging from Grahamstown, South Africa. Monday to Wednesday I’ll be at the 10th Highway Africa Conference. Thursday and Friday I’ll be at the first ever Digital Citizens Indaba.

I’d like to thank the organizers of both events for granting me a scholarship to attend. I have never met any of the organizers, all I did was fill in the scholarship form and voila, I am on a plane later on today. Nothing nefarious there despite what you may have read elsewhere. Next year make sure you fill out the scholarship application form and you could be networking at the 2nd Digital Citizens Indaba!

You’ll be happy you hear that I am not the only Kenyan blogger flying to South Africa. There is a strong team of KBW members attending featuring (in dancehall style) none other than the one you know as Kenyan Pundit, man like Bankelele and the one and only Marazzmatazz. If there are any other Kenyan bloggers attending please email me and let me know.

It is hard to describe how excited I am about all this. Here we are taking our online world and creating opportunities where we can affect positive change in the “real” world. If nothing else ears and eyes will be open. Send me your thoughts on what I could do out there for the KBW family.

By the way if I bump into Desmond Tutu (yes I know he won’t be just walking around waiting to be bumped into by mentalacrobatics, work with me here) I would not know what to say. What do you say to a living legend?

My camera is loaded and the iRiver as well in case the podcast bug bites.

  1. mshairi’s avatar

    mshairi on September 9, 2006 at 3:21 pm

    Great stuff! It is fantastic that at least 4 KBW bloggers will be attending the Indaba. Make us proud!

  2. BeKi’s avatar

    BeKi on September 10, 2006 at 2:25 am

    Represent man. Am well impressed.

  3. uaridi’s avatar

    uaridi on September 10, 2006 at 2:45 am

    Well done. Waiting with bated breath for news and photos.

    Have fun even when you are working for KBW.

  4. alexcia’s avatar

    alexcia on September 10, 2006 at 9:02 am

    I am glad to see you that you are presenting yourself as a kenyan, and not the elusive and controversial “african”.
    There is a difference.
    I do not doubt that yourself and company will make kenyans proud.

  5. SR’s avatar

    SR on September 11, 2006 at 1:12 pm

    Do not think I missed the ‘man like Bankelele”….Man like? Man like? Jungle is massive man (said ‘mon’)!

    Best wishes down there.I hope you learn something, hard a task as it may be….*smh*, do they have a ’special’ section?,

    We await the maendeleo, seeing as we had to changa to send you off there, son of KBW….we are so proud of our son, tehe…yeah, thats right, our son is in South Africa learning cool stuff.

    If Tutu bumps into you, LOL,…if he can get past ‘your people’ and the red tape that is…..tehe, as if! please do ask him if that is his nose for real, and if, truly, without batting an eyelid, he can say without a doubt, given all the things he has seen,especially during apartheid, that he has ‘never learnt to hate’.
    I would like to know what noble spirit could achieve that fete.

    Loads of photos please, God’s window when you have time, and :-*, take care.

    And yes, you are most missed ;-)

  7. Shiroh’s avatar

    Shiroh on September 13, 2006 at 3:45 pm

    I hadnt read this or had i ? Enjoy yours