Kenya has launched a doodle design competition open to all Kenyan school-going children and teenagers aged 6 to 18 years.
The Doodle 4 Google 2013 competition themed ‘My Kenya’ is inspired by Kenya’s Jubilee year – a celebration of 50 years since independence.
According to Google Kenya’s head of marketing, Farzana Khubchandani, the competition offers a wonderful opportunity to celebrate Kenya’s Jubilee year while showcasing students’ creativity on the high-traffic Google Kenya homepage.
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This week I was reading about the two largest economic powers in Africa, Nigeria and South Africa, attempting to mend rocky relations that have divided the two countries for decades. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan and South Africa President Jacob Zuma met for the second time in as many months to discuss greater collaboration between the nations when the issue of a “standby force” controlled by the African Union (AU) “for rapid deployment in crisis areas without delays” arose between the two leaders. President Zuma actually issued support for such a move, which astonished me. Generally in the geopolitical game that is played out across the globe day-in and day-out, the thought of two regional powers uniting to yield power to the whole of the continent is unheard of. However, in an era that promises to fruit African growth that will surpass almost all other regions, a unified and peaceful continent may be the solution for increased development as Africa attempts to close the gap between themselves and a reeling European economy. More…
Before the announcement of TopTV‘s green light to launch a porn channel I was approached by a journalist to comment, in my capacity as the Gender Issues Unit manager at Consultancy Africa Intelligence, on what this move could mean for South Africa. Four questions where sent to me via email and below is what I had to say: More…
Our first interaction with the world is through stories, through the eyes of others; until we experience the world for ourselves, our interpretations are based on what we have heard or read about the distant lands, its people, cultures and lives. We often underestimate the power of stories-the heard or read descriptions. A story not only acquaints you with something, it paints your view, shapes your thoughts and moulds your expectations. It is in the ability of a story to influence thought that its greatest power lies and it is here that the greatest danger lies too. What if the story which introduced to you to a part of the world was biased, partisan, prejudiced or untrue? What if this story is coloured in the hues of communal, ethnic and religious antagonism? Someone who has been acquainted with a place or race by such a story doesn’t have a realistic picture; he just believes what he has been shown. This narrow and subjective narrative about a race, event or even a continent is referred to, in contemporary literary debates, as ‘single story’. More…
By guest blogger Katharina Neureiter
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are” . This was famously said by Theodore Roosevelt to his men on the verge of the American-Spanish civil war. More than a century later this statement also rings true for many who live in fragile and conflict affected states. Fragile states furthermore face an international community often gridlocked and clueless how to best intervene and assist in the transition to peace.
Therefore, in 2011, a group of fragile states, have asked for a ‘New Deal for Engagement’. The High-level forum on Aid Effectiveness held in Busan, South Korea in December 2011 thus gave birth to the “New Deal for Engagement with Fragile States” Driven by the G7+, a group of fragile states, the New Deal for Engagement in Fragile States uses the five peace-building and state-building goals, revenues and services, legitimate politics, security, justice and economic foundations as a guide for progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) and work in fragile and conflict affected countries in general. More…
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