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I am seated at the front of a 14 seater Nissan matatu. It has a very huge screen in front displaying images for the loud music blaring from its speakers set up in different areas of the matatu,typical of our kenyan matatus. The ratio of the music to matatu size could be estimated to be 4:1. (more…)

In a first for Africa, kenyas Martin Shabaya managed to enter into the top five finalists of the world barista championships 2021 and eventually emerged the fifth in the overall competition. There is no other country  in Africa that had reached that far prior thus this is a milestone for Africa as a whole and as we usually do in athletics, Kenya is still setting the pace. This  comes at a time…

Walking through the streets of Nairobi, other cities and major towns in Kenya, you will come across several coffee houses.Several, not many. It should though be noted that they are a little more than they were back in 1963.Java house is one of the most notable ones which seem to be steady and progressive.As much as Kenyans in Nairobi and other places in the country seem to slowly adapt to…

It has been like this for a while now. This place(where I am) is your average semi arid area, on a normal day it is usually sunny and dusty. The weather though lately has been obnoxious , cold and chilly. A under the duvet kind of cold. Of late for some years now June has been serving July, perhaps effects of climate change,perhaps. Clearly, they say sometimes Christmas comes early in July but…

The slopes of Mount Kenya, The great Rift Valley and parts of the lower Eastern region of Kenya are some of the major coffee producing zones in the country. In the vast coffee fields, semi-divided into small portions ,each individually owned by different families ;hard working Kenyans, coffee farmers are tirelessly taking care of their coffee farms. Their hope is that the coffee will fetch better…

Thursday 24th October 2019 and Friday 25th were the days the Kenya National barista championships ,Nairobi pleriminaries took place, an event that took place at the Agriculture and Food authorities headquarters in Dagoretti. That was the third hit of the four hits originally planned after Nakuru and Mombasa,

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Saved the best for last-Wild Samburu

As I had earlier said,would be saving the best for last, here it is

* back to coffeee*  as they sing ~even lovers need a holiday... (more…)

Out and about -Beautiful Kenya-Video 2

Here goes video two ,Somalia ostrich…

^Saving the best for last^ stay tuned…

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Out and about-Beautiful Kenya

How close have you ever come to an elephant ,a giraffe, a gazelle and the wild in general? I will be posting videos and pictures of wild Kenya ,stay tuned. You will surely be impressed.All from Samburu national park and Buffalo springs national reserve,both are adjacent to each other and are located in the northern part of Kenya, in Samburu and Isiolo counties respectively seperated by the Ewaso…

Tell me your dreams

Short flight but smooth, destination somewhere in some field, setup outdoors _meeting, participants, four people including a big man who does not look like he has ever had money problems in his life, two more ladies one of middle age and the other a little older than she is, plus the guy who has just decided not to sit for the meeting and the reason why the big man is on the phone. (more…)