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Month: October 2018

The Great Nairobi-Chinese Railway Bazaar

10 / 28 / 1811 / 3 / 18

A few weeks have passed.  After awhile the string of conversations and interviews begins to blur. The faces don’t, exactly, but the impressions they make are something like Georges Seurat’s paintings. Pointillistic — dots of red, yellow, blue,  white, and black.  Assembled close up, each fleck means too little. Taken from afar, the whole is… Read More

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“I Had Three Farms in Africa…”

10 / 16 / 1811 / 2 / 18

My 24 year old landlady, the R&B rapper, Wangechi Waweru Mwende, survived a horrific car accident four years ago. Today she’s rebuilding her life and career without much fuss or desire to talk about either. I happen to have chosen the house she lives in with her Mom, Nancy Wangaru Migwi.  The two share a modest… Read More

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On Nairobi’s Ngong Road, Nothing is as it Seems

10 / 6 / 1810 / 8 / 18

Try making judgements about human beings and groups and tribes and nations just by what you read in the media. Then, go out into the streets. Hire a bilingual  Uber/Littlecub/Taxify driver in Nairobi  to take you to Chinese-Kenyan construction sites, as I did. His name is Edward  Njogu  (the latter name in Kikuyu dialect means… Read More

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Not Quite Prepared for Hazards in Paradise — Indonesia Suffers Again from Tsunami Buoys that Don’t Work

10 / 2 / 1810 / 2 / 18

I wrote the story on Indonesia’s attempts at natural disaster warning and prevention for Earth magazine last April, based on reporting I did in Indonesia in late December. Now with the Sulawesi quake and tsunami disaster, I print it below.  The sheer unpredictability of quakes and tsunamis in a nation  of 6000 inhabited islands spread… Read More

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Meet Arielle

Arielle Emmett

Recent Posts

  • The Once & Future Taiwan: A Reflection*
  • Why China Won’t Hold Kenya to ‘Debt Trap Diplomacy’
  • Sex and The Velveteen Rabbit (in Nairobi)
  • The Great Nairobi-Chinese Railway Bazaar
  • “I Had Three Farms in Africa…”

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