Five Places You Should Visit In Africa Before You Die

As I was going through this article on the

Forbes Website by EmperorDIV .I found it breathtaking.Realising that Real Nature is in our motherland Africa.

He talks of  the movie, ‘The Bucket List’. If you haven’t seen the film, the story line goes something like this: On realising they’ve got only few months to live, two terminally ill men embark on an around-the-world vacation to exotic destinations they never had the chance to visit.

These are the top five places as Concluded after watching the movie.


Make sure you visit at least one of these places before you make the journey home.

1 . The Annual Wildebeest Migration

Location: Serengeti, Tanzania & Masaai Mara, Kenya
The annual wildebeest migration has often been referred to as ‘The Greatest show on Earth.’ Every year, two million wild animals – wildebeests, buffaloes and zebras – leave Serengeti in Tanzania in a united force to the northern plains of the Masaai Mara Conservation Area, located hundreds of miles away in neighboring Kenya. The animals go in search of fresh grass and water, defying national barriers and enduring attacks from crocodiles in the high waters and carnivorous beasts in the fields. It’s a breathtaking spectacle better experienced than imagined. Each year, tens of thousands of tourists from all over the world flock to the Serengeti and Masaai Mara to savour the experience.

2. The Great Pyramids

Location: Gaza, West of Cairo.
Built between 2700-2500 BC as tombs for Pharaohs, the great Pyramids of Giza remain Egypt’s most renowned landmark and heritage site. The Great Pyramid of Pharaoh Khufu is the largest of the lot and one of the original Seven Wonders of the World.  Khufu’s Pyramid was constructed with 2.3 million stones each weighing 2.5 tons and covers 13 acres.

3. Ngorongoro Crater

Location: Ngorongoro, Tanzania.
The world’s largest volcanic crater, Tanzanians refer to the spectacle as ‘Africa’s Eden.’ The crater was formed about 3 million years ago when a giant volcano of about 19,000 meters in height collapsed as the magma beneath it exploded. Today, Ngorongoro Crater is the permanent home of over 25, 000 wild safari animals including lions, tigers, rhinos, hyenas, zebras and elephants, providing one of the best game viewing sites in the world.

4. Victoria Falls

Location: Zambia & Zimbabwe.
Located on the Zambezi River, the Victoria Falls is the most powerful waterfall in the world. Its perimeter measures 100 meters high and 1700 feet long. The magic of the waterfall comes into play when the tranquil waters of the Zambezi River run into the edge of the Victoria Falls chasm on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border. The water plunges 100 feet to the bottom, creating towering mists and roaring sounds. As a result, locals fondly refer to the waterfall as “Mosi-oa-Tunya” which translates as ‘The smoke that thunders.’

5. The Sahara Desert

North Africa
With frequent sand storms, dust devils and a generally unfriendly climate, the Sahara is not much of a vacation destination, but you can dare to visit anyway. The world’s largest desert, the Sahara stretches 5,000 kilometres across Northern Africa and occupies half the area of the African continent. In area, the Sahara is as big as the United States and larger than Australia. Despite its dryness and intense heat, the desert reportedly has occupied villages.

The World's Happiest (And Saddest) Countries

What is happiness? Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, wrote, “Happiness is a warm puppy.” John Lennon had a different take: “Happiness is a warm gun.”
Whatever happiness is to you, there’s some conditions under which it most readily blossoms. You need enough money to acquire a puppy or a gun, and enough free time to exalt in its warmth. You need the peace of mind that Big Brother isn’t about to come around the corner and take your gun (or puppy) away from you. And because fun things are even more fun when shared with others, you’ll be even happier if you have a family that encourages your passion, or at least a local chapter of the NRA or Kennel Club to hang out with.

 

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Legatum Institute

Legatum Prosperity Index.
In its recently released 2011 index, billed as an “inquiry into global wealth and well being,” Legatum ranks 110 countries on their overall level of prosperity. These countries comprise 93% of global population and 97% of GDP.
View the 20 happiest and 20 saddest countries here.
At No. 1 for the third year in a row: Norway.
What’s it got that the rest of the world doesn’t? For one thing, a stunning per capita GDP of $54,000 a year. Norwegians have the second-highest level of satisfaction with their standards of living: 95% say they are satisfied with the freedom to choose the direction of their lives; an unparalleled 74% say other people can be trusted.
Cynics say Norway’s ranking is a fluke, that it’s a boring, godless (just 13% go to church), homogeneous place to live, with a massive welfare state bankrolled by high taxes. Without massive offshore reserves of oil and gas that it exports to the world through state-controlled Statoil, Norway’s GDP would be far smaller.
Natural resources help: Australia, which ranks third, is benefitting greatly from selling its coal, iron and natural gas to China. And yet some of the most resource-reliant nations, like Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates, are far down the list. There’s clearly more to it than oil and ore. Joining Norway and Australia in the top 10 are their neighbors Denmark, Finland, Sweden and New Zealand. Equally small and civilized Switzerland and the Netherlands are also up there. Rounding out the top 10 is the United States at 10th and Canada (sixth).
What do these nations have in common? They are electoral democracies, for one. People are naturally happier when they feel like they have a say in how their countries are run. They also have abundant civil liberties (consider decriminalized drugs and prostitution in the Netherlands), though if your happiness is a warm gun you’ll be happier in the U.S. than in Europe. There are few restrictions on the flow of capital or of labor. Legatum’s scholars point out that Denmark (No. 2), for example, has little job protection, but generous unemployment benefits. So business owners can keep the right number of workers, while workers can have a safety net while they muck around looking for that fulfilling job.
Legatum’s researchers note that Australia’s rise from fifth in 2009 to third place exemplifies these positive traits. The Aussies have abolished trade protections, freed labor markets, reformed strict immigration laws and become one of the world’s most flexible economies.
Of perhaps utmost importance, nearly all the nations in the top 10 are adept at fostering entrepreneurship and opportunity. Legatum’s researchers concluded that a country’s ranking in this area is the clearest proxy of its overall ranking in the index. This means low business startup costs, lots of cellphones, plenty of secure Internet servers, a history of high R&D spending and the perception that working hard gets you ahead. The U.S. stands out with a fifth-place rank in entrepreneurism and first place in health, thanks to the world’s highest level of health spending, great vaccination levels, clean water, plentiful food and beautiful scenery.

Kenya stands up at Position 102nd out of 110.
Best ranking 82nd in personal freedom.
Worst ranking 109th in Economy.
GDP/Capita(PPP) $ 1725.09
Average Life satisfaction 4.3 of 10.
And that's our Pride as Country Kenya.

Ten Business Tips From Kenyan Multi-Millionaire Chris Kirubi

Chris Kirubi is a complex man. One of Africa’s richest and most successful businessmen, he’s that rare blend of Donald Trump, Jeffrey Sachs, Richard Branson and American music star DJ Khaled, in African skin. In business, he’s got the cunning and clout of Trump, the economic intellect of Sachs, the rebellion of Branson, and the musical inclinations of hip-hop act DJ Khaled.

                                           Chris Kirubi with Richard Branson

Here’s the reason why: In between running one of Africa’s largest privately held business conglomerates, delivering countless keynote lectures during frequent international economic gatherings, writing a weekly business column for a daily newspaper and mentoring young Kenyan entrepreneurs, Kirubi still finds time to make cameo appearances in Kenyan hip-hop videos, movies, and even hosts a rock show on Capital FM, a Nairobi radio station he owns. He’s the DJ!
Kirubi sits atop one of East Africa’s most successful business empires. His business interests are varied and far reaching. He is the chairman and founder of privately-held Haco Tiger Industries, East Africa’s largest manufacturers of some of the continent’s leading consumer brands in stationery, personal care and home care products. He also owns the International House, one of Nairobi’s landmark skyscrapers, and holds the largest stake in Centum Investments, a leading private equity firm listed both on the Nairobi and Uganda Stock Exchanges, among other holdings.
The Harvard-trained tycoon is one of the most tech-conscious and social media-savvy businessmen on the continent. He keeps a Twitter and Facebook account, blogs frequently, and was reportedly one of the first people in Kenya to own an iPad.

I actively follow the wealthy tycoon on his Twitter @ckirubi, where he gives his largely youthful followers tips on business, success and life.

Here are ten business success tweets in his own words, unedited:

“One of the ways I believe you can find meaning of your life is by creating a strategy that you can use through your journey. You need to keep the purpose of your life, front and center as you decide how to spend your time, talents and energy. Remember that without a purpose, life can be hollow.”

“Visualize your past victories while visualizing and anticipating future victories. Planting the seeds of positive expectancy in your mind is the best way to reap.”

“One of the most important lessons that has made me be a better employer and businessman is pointing out people’s strengths. I have come to learn that the praise of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be. Enjoy your afternoon.”

“If you understand an idea, you can express it so others can understand it. However, if you can’t explain it, you don’t really understand it; and you cannot invest in a business you don’t understand. So friends, do your research well and understand the idea or concept you want to execute before investing in it.”

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day…but because I want to achieve my purpose and make a difference in society, I will stop focusing on the frightful things I see when I take my eyes off my goals and instead fix them there. With that said, I’m off to my meeting.”

“One of the most important lessons I have come to learn over the years is that you can’t do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and be in business tomorrow. You must keep learning new methods and ways of doing things to keep abreast with the world’s ever changing trends.”

“Business is always a struggle. There are always obstacles and competitors. There is never an open road, except the wide road that leads to failure. Every great success has always been achieved by fight. Every winner has scars….The men who succeed are the efficient few. They are the few who have the ambition and will-power to develop themselves. So choose to be among the few today.”

“Whatever opportunity you decide to take should be in line with your vision. When I look at the opportunities that come my way, I often ask myself, will it add value to a business or individual? If I cannot add value or contribute to some sort of growth then I will not take it.”

“To prosper soundly in business, you must satisfy not only your customers, but you must lay yourself out to satisfy also the men who make your product and the men who sell it…So if your not doing too well in business, you should consider the above.”
 
“One of the most important lessons I have come to learn over the years is that you can’t do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and be in business tomorrow. You must keep learning new methods and ways of doing things to keep abreast with the world’s ever changing trends.”

Why Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page are overrated

In the years of bitter struggle between capitalism and socialism, young generations around the world were obsessed with Karl Marx and his socialist ideas. Posters of celebrated revolutionaries like Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, and Mao Zedong decorated university walls, while red banners and anti-capitalist, antibusiness slogans colored and enlivened popular demonstrations.
Today, with the triumph of capitalism over socialism, with unionism on the retreat, and with another Renaissance of individual freedoms and liberties, younger generations are no longer obsessed with socialist ideas and antibusiness slogans. Their heroes and idols are no longer celebrated revolutionaries. They are entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, Larry Page, who have been the revolutionaries in their own industries, delivering the world new products and businesses and creating enormous wealth for themselves, their associates, stockholders, and society at large.

In some sense, today’s admiration for entrepreneurs parallels Mark Twain’s and Charles Dudley Warner’s Gilded Age with its own celebrated entrepreneurs, like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, at least before public opinion turned against them.  Yet unlike the Gilded Age, today’s admiration of individual entrepreneurs may be exaggerated. Behind the success of Apple (NYSE:AAPL), Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT), Facebook, and Google, and hundreds and thousands of successful high-tech companies aren’t just the visible and the famous individual entrepreneurs who started them, but the hundreds of thousands of unknown individual entrepreneurs who collectively share the risks and rewards from the discovery and exploitation of new products and business. The many versions of Windows, for instance, wasn’t developed and marked by Bill Gates alone. For all practical reasons, he could not have either the time or the technical experience and and the expertise to write the millions of lines of software code behind the flushing screens and the eye-catching images; neither would have the marketing skills and time to persuade computer vendors and manufacturers to install a copy of the software in almost every PC that came off the manufacturing line. The same is true for Google ‘s (NASDAQ:GOOG) search engine, and Apple’s MacBook, iPhone, and iPad.

Microsoft’s, Google’s, and Aplle’s products were develop and marketed by hundreds of engineers and marketers both inside and outside their corporate boundaries paid on the basis of performance, mostly in stock options, rather than on a flat wage basis. In this sense, each and every member of these corporations and their partners and alliances is part of a collective entrepreneurship rather than part of a hierarchical organization that divides its members into stockholders, managers, and workers, into insiders and outsiders. Each member plays a role in the activities of these entrepreneurial networks and shares the risks and the rewards from the discovery and exploitation of new products.

The bottom line: Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Sergey Brin, Larry Page have drawn a great deal of admiration these days for their pioneering successes that changed the world we live in. While well deserved, this admiration may be overrated, as the accomplishments of these celebrated entrepreneurs is a collective rather than an individual act.

The Tenth Golden Rule on Living the Good Life

Kindness to others is a good habit that has a lasting effect that supports and reinforces the quest for the good life. Helping others bestows a sense of satisfaction that has two beneficiaries—the beneficiary, the receiver of the help, and the one who provides the help. Over time people who do good deeds develop a friendly and joyful personality that attracts and magnetizes those they associate with and brings kindness their way.

Many of the world’s great religions speak of an obligation to extend kindness to others. But these deeds are often advocated as an investment toward future salvation — as the admission ticket to paradise. That’s not the case for the ancient Greeks, however, who saw kindness through the lens of reason, emphasizing the positive effects acts of kindness have not just on the receiver of kindness but to the giver of kindness as well, not for the salvation of the soul in the afterlife, but in this life. Simply put, kindness tends to return to those who do kind deeds, as Aesop demonstrated in his colourful fable of a little mouse cutting the net to free the big lion. Aesop lived in the 6^th century B.C. and acquired a great reputation in antiquity for the instruction he offered in his delightful tales. Despite the passage of many centuries, Aesop’s counsels have stood the test of time because in truth, they are timeless observations on the human condition; as relevant and meaningful today as they were 2,500 years ago.
As it so happens, the ancient Greeks were not as “idealistic” as they are sometimes portrayed as being. Even the great philosophers and poets among them were strongly inclined toward utility in many of their teachings –including the notion of good deeds. The idea of an act of kindness as an end in itself or as a matter of personal duty was simply not part of their moral horizon. At the same time, however, their sense of utility in such matters was not crass or tactless. For Aesop an act of kindness is not a calculation; it is not a conscious investment made in the hope of attaining a dividend. What he suggests, instead, is that beneficence tends to return to those who do good deeds — a kind of karmic recompense. And so in the fable mentioned above, when the lion is hopelessly ensnared in a net, it is the lowly mouse the lion once spared, that nibbles through the ropes and sets him free. A spontaneous good deed reciprocated under circumstances no one could have anticipated.

Africa's Hottest Tech Startups: Bandeka.com

Earlier this year Yaw Boateng and Tunde Kehinde, both alumni of Harvard Business School, stumbled on a breakthrough idea.
Boateng, who is from Ghana, and Kehinde, a Nigerian national, conceptualized a different kind of social network- an exclusive online community where well-educated, successful, professional Africans could meet up, forge strong social and professional connections, discuss ideas – and maybe fall in love.
So they founded Bandeka.com, the newest and probably the most elite social network in Africa’s web sphere. Bandeka (which is a play on the Swahili word- “Bandika” which means “to connect”) is a novel social utility, something like Facebook- but for extremely sophisticated and educated African folks.
Basically, Bandeka is an invite-only online community where well-educated Africans can connect with other equally successful professionals, thereby building lasting relationships over the long term. But unlike other social networks, the connections formed on Bandeka are not entirely virtual. Bandeka also stages and hosts private offline events where members can network and have a few drinks.
Is this kind of service really necessary? The founders seem to think so. “It is quite difficult for well-educated Africans to connect,” say Boateng. “Balancing our busy schedules with our desire to meet and date Africans we like usually means using traditional social platforms, offline social venues and pure chance. These limit our options to meet new amazing Africans outside our immediate circles.”
Bandeka targets young, upwardly mobile African professionals who reside in Africa and elsewhere around the world. Its invite-only platform creates a member base in which everyone on the network is interconnected to at least one other person. Members can search for members by African nationality, residence, profession or college institution attended.
The site went live just last month, but within a few weeks of its launch, it’s been able to attract what the founders of the site say is a pretty decent crowd. The founders are reluctant to divulge how many members the site has been able to attract so far because of ‘confidentiality’ concerns, but they say Bandeka is adding a significant number of members each week and is fast growing into a very diverse community that includes students at top grad schools, successful entrepreneurs, and other professionals.
Both Boateng and Kehinde are extremely excited about their first web startup, and the possibilities it will open up for professional Africans. Currently supported by a select group of angel investors, the company operates  from offices in the United States, Nigeria and  Ghana. “We will be able to connect the Ivorian engineer who lives in Paris and is looking to a man from Abidjan in Europe, or the Ethiopian who just moved to London and wants to find a woman to chat with over authentic Ethiopian food and drinks. It’s amazing!” Kehinde enthuses.
So, if you’re a well-educated or sophisticated African looking to mingle with the right crowd, Bandeka might be a smart option for you. If you haven’t got an invite, try going to the website. There’s an email address you can use to tell the organizers about yourself.

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I WILL NOT FIGHT my fellow KENYAN come 2012 ...No matter what happens!

I will not fight you,my fellow Kenyan,come 2012 General Elections,no matter what happens.

The post election violence experienced in Kenya in early 2008 is one of the darkest moments in Kenya's history.Neighbor turned against neighbor due to selfish interests from our politicians.Innocent blood was shed and nothing will ever justify this loss of innocent lives.Homes were burnt down,property lost and thousands of innocent Kenyans were internally displaced.

We all pray to God that such an event does NOT EVER RECUR in our beloved country.
I would like you my friend,to join me in this noble cause of uniting Kenyans,and say NEVER again shall we turn against our neighbors and leave these mind games to our politicians.

1. Promote peace in our country,Kenya

2. Shun tribalism

3. Love thy neighbor

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10 African Millionaires To Watch

These ten businessmen didn’t make the cut for our inaugural list of the 40 Richest Africans, but some of them may be strong contenders for future membership. Each of them is incredibly wealthy in their own right. Read more...

Africa's 40 Richest

Forbes’ inaugural list of the 40 Richest People in Africa is a testament to the growing global importance of the continent. Fortunes are being created everywhere from South Africa clear north to Morocco and Egypt in a diverse array of industries, by companies that cater to local tastes or worldwide needs. The combined wealth of the 40 richest is $64.9 billion – more than Thailand’s 40 richest (at $45 billion) but less than Taiwan’s (at $92.7 billion).

See complete coverage and the full list of Africa’s 40 Richest Here

Wealth Tips From One Of Asia's Richest Entrepreneurs: Lee Shau Kee

Bookstores around the world routinely carry investment tips from Warren Buffett. It’s not so often that one of Asia’s most successful businesspeople shares wealth advice at an international event.

Yet Henderson Land Chairman Lee Shau Kee of Hong Kong, who ranked No. 28 on the 2011 Forbes Billionaires List with wealth of $19 billion, did that last Thursday at an awards dinner arranged by Forbes Asia for members of our 2011 Best Under A Billion list. Listees this year included Netease, one of the world’s most popular online game websites, and Ctrip, a nimble travel booking specialist that’s also based in China. Among the 200 guests at the Hong Kong event were Bank of East Asia Chairman David Li and fashion designer Vivienne Tam.
What suggestions did Lee offer to the audience?
Work hard and persevere. Clear enough.

• Use money to make money:  Save your “first bucket of gold” – or small fortune — from work, but then use it for investments. Don’t just park money in the bank.

• For men, find a job that you will be happy with and work hard at. Women, in line with an old Chinese proverb, should marry the right man, Lee said.

• Don’t marry too early in life.  It’s better to work hard when young and establish a career first.

• For those already successful, money can become a controlling factor in life and make you a slave to it, Lee noted. One way to avoid that:  Philanthropy. Giving away money to the right cause, with a leveraged effect and your own involvement in how it is spent, will “give you peace of mind,” Lee said.

To that end, Lee also had another suggestion: try to maximize the number of people that can benefit from an individual contribution. He noted that he had set up a program that trained one million young farmers in rural areas and helped them find jobs. Because each family has about three members, the giving benefited more than three million people.

Internet Marketing Newbie Guide.First Read before You Start Internet Marketing.

Before you start an internet marketing business, there are few things that you need to
know. These things are very important to know before you get doing the internet
marketing business. As you may know, very little marketer can continue their internet
business while the others stop to continue.

Even you get the exact methods to make money from the internet, but if you expecting
results from zero effort, it is useless. A lot of people learn the exact same methods but
only a few of them can succeed in their online business. Do you know why? Because
some of them take action and get results, and the others cannot even bothered to try it
out.
Keep these things in your mind; you are responsible for your own success, not anyone
else! Some people keep blaming things around them and they give up to keep trying.
We can see that the problem is in them. The key to success in Internet Marketing is......READ MORE

The First Golden Rule on Living the Good Life*

When a 103-year-old man living in a small village was asked what his secret was, his answer was fairly simple: “I have always kept myself busy. I have been living my life. My hair has turned white, my hands and feet are not as strong as they used to be, but I can still reason. And as long as I reason, as long as I keep my mind engaged, my spirit, my soul is at peace. I can still examine and experience the world around me and participate in it, that’s what makes me happy. I can reason under the pine tree how to make better baskets. It now takes longer-much longer than it used to take to make each one for them. But it doesn’t matter. I no longer make them to earn a living. I make them just for the beauty of it, just for the pleasant thought of young men carrying grapes in vineyards. I can still examine life in the village coffee shop where I debate local, national, and international issues with my fellow villagers, and meet new people visiting the area. I examine life in the village church where I raise anew the question of our being. I examine life in the farm where I still plant and nurture olive trees, dreaming of the days the new generation will harvest them, and cut branches to crown Olympic victors.

I examine life by my fire place. I…,” the old man went on and on. “The day I stop examining life, I will be dead.“ That was two years later, just three months shy of his 105^th birthday.

  

This old man’s message about life states clearly and loudly the first rule of spiritual living by reasoning:

EXAMINE LIFE, ENGAGE LIFE

WITH VENGEANCE; ALWAYS

SEARCH FOR NEW PLEASURES

AND NEW DESTINIES TO REACH

WITH YOUR MIND.

This rule isn’t new. It echoes the verses of ancient Greek philosophers and most notably those of Plato through the voice of his hero Socrates.  Living life is about examining life through reason; nature’s greatest gift to humanity. The importance of reason in sensing and examining life is evident in all phases of life; from the infant who strains to explore its new surroundings to the grandparent who actively reads and assesses the headlines of the daily paper.  Reason lets human beings participate in life, to be human is to think, appraise, and explore the world, discovering new sources of material and spiritual pleasure.
Some people fully understand the significance of reason in examining and participating in life. They espouse new ideas, long for new things, new relationships, constantly discovering new interests, escaping from their boring routines. They engage life with enthusiasm; grasping life aggressively and squeezing from it every drop of excitement, satisfaction, and joy.  Some discover new professional challenges, build new bridges, new skyscrapers; develop new medicines, and new computer gear.  Others discover new hobbies, scaling mountaintops, exploring the sea bottom, and the depths of the jungle. A third group addresses the ills of humanity, the sick, the poor and the disadvantaged, and amasses funds, food and medicine to comfort and cure them.
A properly examined life protects people against living a life as spectators.  It bestows the opportunities that accompany every sunrise and it does so even for those who are no longer in their youth.  People, who continue to explore life fully, even though they may be advanced in years, can still discover that something new awaits them everyday regardless of age–a new place to travel, a new book to read, and new people to meet. The key to unleashing the potential of reason is attitude. The person who approaches life with a child-like wonder is best prepared to defy the limitations of time, is more “alive,” more of a participant in life at the age of sixty or even seventy than the average teenager.
Unfortunately, not everyone fully understands the significance and potentialities of reason. Some people fail to cultivate and utilize it to its fullest extend, and fail therefore to participate in a fully human existence.
Life is full of potential but too often people settle for a series of stale routines, allowing themselves to become content with the dull and ordinary activities that have guided their lives for years.  They abandon the sense of adventure that once colored their lives and instead accept one compromise after another, staying on the sidelines of life, isolating and alienating themselves from friends and relatives—
They no longer examine life!

Mentoring and Movements: How Leaders Are Made

When it comes to movements — when it comes to life — being a mentor is just as important and being mentored
In the world of community organizing — of which I am just a student — there’s a nice little ritual known as “appreciations.”  At the end of whatever journey the group takes together — say, starting a movement, getting the vote out, producing an important event — the group gathers for a post-mortem and in round-robin style, each person tells each other how thankful they are for their efforts.

I got my first experience in “appreciations” last weekend, and I must admit I was uncomfortable at first.  Not because it was so touchy-feely (I’m generally OK with that, though I’m prone to blush), but the thought of having to sit through a conversation hearing praise from so many people caused me to panic.  You see, I’m a lot more comfortable giving praise than getting praise; I’m easily embarrassed.  And that’s not good.  It’s like I’m built to enjoy just part of an experience that’s critical for building great relationships. 

My “appreciations” to everyone who have taught me this.  I’m gonna look for opportunities to share it with others.Read more........

Hackers pledge to deliver new world without Facebook

At midnight, social media Facebook will shut down, a group of hackers calling themselves Anonymous, has vowed.

The ‘hactivists’ will destroy the medium of exchange accusing it of exposing peoples’ privacy.

“One day you will look back on this and realise what we have done here is right, you will thank the rulers of the Internet; we are not harming you but saving you.

Anonymous Operation Facebook, 2011,  

Shimba Technologies Ltd launches MedAfrica App

 On the 1^st November 2011 in Nairobi,Kenya,  Shimba Technologies Ltd in partnership with Nokia launched MedAfrica – a mobile  app offering a ground-breaking, go-to source of information regarding medical solutions at the touch of a button. The service aims to make healthcare information affordable and accessible to Kenyans.

Med Kenya!

The World's Most Powerful People

 There are seven billion people on the planet. These are the 70 that matter. What do the president of the United States, the Dalai Lama, a billionaire drug dealer and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg  all have in common?  They are all featured on FORBES’ annual ranking of the World’s Most

Power is on your hand!

Makerere electric car finally hits the tarmac.

The car is ready,” said the Project Manager Paul Isaac Musasizi of the Vehicle Design Mission at Makerere University which has produced Uganda’s first electric car.

What of our Kenyan Universities what are we upto?