Last Updated on 30 October 2013 by Gertrude Mention the biggest telecommunications Company in Kenya and most will blatantly say: SAFARICOM! I may not be a technology guru to know why this is the scenario but we cannot help it but clap to many Safaricom’s achievements over the years. This company is credited during the … Read more
Last Updated on 30 October 2013 by Gertrude Sonko is a Mtaani name meaning a rich individual(s), and Mike sure is! But there is a problem with this flamboyant Nairobi Senator. I got great respect for him, as a charismatic, charming and very passionate leader. He dresses so nicely in expensive suits, nice body, earrings … Read more
Last Updated on 29 October 2013 by Gertrude Omo is a word that has many meanings, a Swahili word meaning front of a Meli,(ship), a sub-tribe or group in Ethiopia and what we are focusing on the detergent washing powder. In OMO they believe that ‘dirt is good’, to connote the importance of play to … Read more
Last Updated on 29 October 2013 by Gertrude When Harpic was introduced into the Kenyan market we were marvelled at it’s ‘power’ to do the inevitable … whiten the toilet bowl, which for years had proven a headache to mums in Kenya. You have to know a little history about this product, It is a … Read more
Last Updated on 26 October 2013 by Gertrude In Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe , there is a character of attention, Okonkwo. He is a big-built man that is described as walking in, with strides. Reading this book opens one to the theatrics and world that is of the â€Umoufiasâ€, in this case, Kenya!! … Read more
Last Updated on 24 October 2013 by Gertrude Have we lost our trust in God believing in an immortal soul? Or, do we still live in the old Kenya of preserving our culture, while preservation of culture is important, there is some that we have scraped … for instance, Female Genital Mutilation. What amazes my … Read more
Last Updated on 24 October 2013 by Gertrude What is romantic, we got to understand this term and it’s usage, according to Merriam Webster, an on-line resource and dictionary, romantic is described as â€relating to, or involving love between two people. Or thinking about love and doing or saying things to show that you love … Read more
Last Updated on 22 October 2013 by Gertrude We have been complaining about the deplorable condition in the classrooms, not all classrooms but just a section of it, the Public Primary Schools. During the Moi regime, going to school was almost UN-affordable to some parents and I second that. When Kibaki, the former President, said … Read more
Last Updated on 22 October 2013 by Gertrude If you watched Jicho Pevu on KTN by Mohammed Ali and John Allan Namu, you would be shocked by the extent of ‘rescue mission operation’ at the  ‘Mall of Terror’. Shockingly, the terror dint end with the terrorists but there was a group of local terrorists, who … Read more
Last Updated on 13 October 2013 by Gertrude As a country we have made big strides to be where we are but is there anything to be proud of? From the days of walking miles of kilometers to and from home to school or hospital, giving birth in the house through midwives, sending letters through … Read more