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Nothing elicit here, just some good old fashioned clippers at an over-priced and over-sexed hair salon in metro-Detroit.
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Hello Friends,
This posting has been a long time coming; parts of it have been written in Cairo, Egypt, the Sinai Peninsula, Eilat, Israel, Jerusalem, Israel, Newark, NJ, Detroit, MI, and Baltimore, MD. My recent travels might surprise many of you, as last you heard I had successfully fled Kenya and made it home to [...]

Dear Mother Africa,
You break my heart like a beauty queen gone bad. You torture me like a sunset’s mosquitoes. You excite me like a Dotson overtaking a Porsche. You scream for my love, yet rebuke it all the same. How can I ever love you when you fight my love with [...]

Kenya held parliamentary and presidential elections on Thursday, December 27, 2007. They followed a short but intense month or two of campaigning. Every forecast was for free, fair, and quiet elections in Kenya, Africa’s shining jewel of democracy, and with that in mind I returned to Kenya from holiday in Europe the day [...]

I deplaned in Mombasa, happy to be back in my adopted African homeland.  The morning sun was welcoming, and the air fragrant and fresh as I remembered.  My holiday in Europe was just the refresher I had needed, and I looked forward to getting back to Kenya, back to work.
My good friend, Issa, picked me [...]

Motioning with his small hand, his fingers are pressed together making the hand look closed, but it is very much open and ready to receive.  With that small hand of his, he moves it from your direction to his mouth.  Again and again.  His doleful eyes are at once pleading and calculating.  The spare change [...]

 

This is not a story about cigarettes, cigars, or any other consumable form of tobacco.  Nor is this a story about cancer, emphysema, or any of the other frankly scary and untimely ends your lungs can meet.  Instead, this is a story about a puppy; puppy love to be more specific. 
 
Less than two weeks ago [...]

The crowd surged up Kenyatta Avenue, stopping the traffic behind them as their white kanzus blew in the wind and their gold embroidered kafiahs glistened in the noonday sun.  It was Friday.  Mid-day prayers had just ended at the mosque.  Now Salaama Baridhwan was making her final procession through Mombasa’s streets; this procession was for [...]

When thinking about sustainable solutions for Africa, the first question we should ask ourselves is: “Which Africa?”
Africa, one continent, yes. But 53 countries, about a thousand languages and almost 900 million people — as many as the European Union and the USA combined.
What is Africa? Is it Nigeria, with 140 million people, with abundant oil [...]