By: Mentalacrobatics » 10 days to TEDGlobal

Mentalacrobatics » 10 days to TEDGlobal — Fri, 25 May 2007 13:08:39 +0000

[...] to talk to us. I notice that Yvonne Chaka Chaka has stopped organising her calendar to take in my conference dates instead Youssou N’Dour will be doing his [...]

By: Mentalacrobatics » Drama at the WSF

Mentalacrobatics » Drama at the WSF — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:37:57 +0000

[...] Walking around Kasarani today the World Social Forum did not feel any different from the hundreds of conferences held in Nairobi each year. Many stalls organised side by side, lots of curios for sale, the occasional traditional dances, and people generally milling around killing time. For a conference that was meant to be shaking the world things were pretty ordinary and normal. In fact it reminded me a lot of the Nairobi ASK Show (minus the cows, camels, and goats). Unlike the ASK show however this WSF lacks one thing. KENYANS. There are people for all over the world here and it is clear they are passionate about this forum, but most of the Kenyans here are probably staff or volunteers. I’ve blogged before about the almost total information blackout within Kenya on this event. Now I am not going to get draw into who is to blame for that. But today at lunch time Kenyans struck back. [...]

By: JKE

JKE — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:57:48 +0000

Hola M, thx for sharing this. I just heard all registrants will get a free Celtel SIM…

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