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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 [...]

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 [...]

 

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 [...]

I live on Haile Selassie Boulevard.  Unlike its namesake, it is yet to witness its greatest moments.  It is one of several main roads bisecting the island of Mombasa, and is in good company, as the two parallel roads closest are those of Kenyatta and Moi, Kenya’s first two and only presidents.   The boulevard, is [...]

A clip from NBC’s Nightly News with Brian Williams.

(Kenyan commercial for condoms)

I just came back from the pharmacy, where I picked up my prescriptions for Kenya; Cipro for diarrhea and Malarone and Doxy for malaria.

The grand total: $1098.36