Kenya’s President Mwai Kibaki has signed into law a restrictive media bill that domestic and foreign critics have condemned as repressive and reactionary.
Mr. Kibaki released a statement on Friday that appealed to the media to “recognize that freedom must go hand in hand with responsibility.” - VOA

A media bill has sparked controversy in Kenya. Critics have attacked the Kenya Communications Amendment Bill saying it will gag the press. The new bill gives the minister for internal security the power to raid a media house, search its premises, dismantle broadcast equipment and take a station off air. But the government is standing [...]

Many prominent Kenyans are walking around wearing charms and talismans, some disguised as gold chains, amulets and bracelets. Why are many falling for the jujuman’s charms? Kenyan online news portal, The Sunday Nation examines the topic:
The witchdoctors promise a simple solution to all problems and desires, be it romance, career, health, an errant lover [...]

The Pan-African Education Awards: Three prizes for three great educational initiatives in Africa. Earlier this year, the Teach A Man to Fish organization an international non-profit organization working to improve education in developing countries, via its “The EDUCATING AFRICA Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education”, sought to identify African organizations that are entrepreneurial, sustainable and [...]

Qatar is hoping to grow crops in north-east Kenya. The Gulf state, made up mostly of barren desert, has asked Kenya to lease 40,000 hectares of land. In return it will fund a port on the tourist island of Lamu costing 3.5 billion US Dollars. A spokesman for Kenyan president Mwai Kibaki said Kenyans have [...]

It surely pays to have a grandson who happens to be the American president-elect, right?
The American President-elect’s grandmother, Sarah Obama, was at the center of attention at a World AIDS Days activities in Kisumu, Kenya, where she flagged off an awareness marathon.

Kenya’s Daily Nation reports:
As soon as residents got wind that Mama Sarah was at [...]

Ushahidi is the latest effort to “crowd-source” news gathering on unfolding crises in remote areas via e-mail and mobile phones”, writes Forbes magazine, the latest mainstream media to profile the African-designed, award-winning software that has now gone open-source.
The creation of Ushahidi - a interpreted in Swahili as “testimony” or “witness” - was spurred by [...]

Kiki Edozie, a Nigerian political science professor at Michigan State University, discusses the relationship between capitalism, democracy, and development in Africa. Specifically, Edozie compares recent corruption scandals in Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya and shows how democratic crises are closely tied to economic crises.
Take a listen.
Source: Africa: Past and Present.

Do you know a communal cooker is turning rubbish into fuel to feed residents of one of Africa’s biggest slums — Kibera — on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya? Afrigadget the full gist on the communal stove and oven.
The garbage-burning oven communal oven is a pilot project designed to clean up Kenya’s slums while preserving [...]

That there is nothing traditional about 44th President-Elect and his family will be reiterating the obvious. They are not only advocating political change, but Michelle Obama is also changing fashion when it comes to first ladies. Michelle, unlike any First Lady who has ever occupied the White House, graciously portrays the look of [...]