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Category Archives: Wake me Up in Africa

Why China Won’t Hold Kenya to ‘Debt Trap Diplomacy’

12 / 15 / 181 / 1 / 20

In late October last year, about six weeks after I arrived in Kenya, I interviewed a Chinese minister and commercial counselor in Nairobi.  Dr. Guo Ce bowled me over with his enthusiasm and immense hope for Kenya’s development and long-term partnership with his homeland. A few weeks later, he asked me to withdraw this blog… Read More

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Sex and The Velveteen Rabbit (in Nairobi)

12 / 10 / 1812 / 18 / 18

What a Nairobi radio hostess who busts marital cheaters can teach us about love. Yes there has been a huge hiatus in my writings here.  Since my last post, I’ve flown direct to Salt Lake City from Nairobi in 20 hours  to see my grandchildren, compiled 53 tapes of interviews, and met, among many other… Read More

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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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Rambo in Tanzania

9 / 25 / 1810 / 16 / 18

After staying in Nairobi 24 hours on no sleep, I took a flight to Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania  to attend a conference entitled Africa-Asia:  ‘A New Axis of Knowledge 2.’   The object was to learn about the region and run into contacts who might help me locate Chinese enclaves and business folks making interesting money… Read More

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