Wow, it's long since I've posted anything on this site.

First, all VOLINA and AFRICANESE, good work on the new posts and pictures.

LONDONER, You sound like a reasonable person, but you're trivial squabbling make you seem petty and vindictive.

I've followed this post and I must say the negative vybes were started by "IGNORANT" who says's he's Nigerian.

I'd expect you to at least rebuke this guy who's your countryman. I'd heavily rebuke any kenyan who dares post uncalled for rude remarks on this forum despite me being kenyan.

Kenya right now has undergone a very dark period and we're not trying to hide anything, we acknowledge that in Kenya we do have problems and we're working to resolve them which will include compromises.

now, once these problems are resolved, Kenya will surely rise. why do i say this ? It's not out of arrogance or anything, but just knowing having grown up in Kenya, Kenyans resilience and re-solve is very amazing. Kenyans endured hard life during the Moi years of dictatorship. KENYANS WANT TO MOVE Ahead and progress.

One thing that has amazed me is the level of business confidence in Kenya despite the chaos. The Liberty Insurance group is to set up shop in Africa with offices in naija and Kenya. They chose Nairobi to be their H/Q DESPITE THE political situation which they termed as temporary. They and alot of international investors know that the fundamentals in place in Kenya are solid.That's why GE, Coke, Google, Yb and Rubicam set up their Africa regional H/Q 's in Nairobi and haven't relocated yet.

Granted, we still have a long way to go and there remains alot of work to be done, that's why the government's slogan was "Kazii iendelee" which means " let the work go on" and the opposition slogan was "Kazi ianze" which means " let the work now start"

As we speak, the opposition nd government have worked out a deal. so put those slogans in place i.e. Let the work go on and let the work begin, and guess what ? you have a motivated working nation building up their economy.


NAIJA is a huge economy, and in Kenya I don't think we're no where close.NAIJA is doing big things for those of you who don't know, it may not reflect in Lagos pics or elsewhere but I know for sure NAIJA is rising.Plus NAIJA have a bigger population than any African country, so there population is a real challenge.

But keeping putting good posts wherever you represent.

and LONDONER continue with your good posts too, just don't let people like ignorant give naija people a bad name.

@ knyboy

londoner:

Volina, yes you are right, people shouldn't put down other cultures,

Kenya has more beautiful cities. i cam from the coastal city of Mombasa n its tyme i show it up.

formely known as amabalal house, now mombasa trade center.

Kenya has more beautiful cities. i cam from the coastal city of Mombasa n its tyme i show it up.

formely known as amabalal house, now mombasa trade center.

opposite lulu center

Social security House(branch of NSSF), most of the photos i shot from this buildin, am proud of Msa

jcc buxton

old town, from SS House, beautiful Indian Ocean @ the horizon

who said Mombasa isnt green. Am proud 2 b a coastarian!

this r old buildings constructed by the arabs and swahilis as late as 18th centuary. Kenya has preserved this for purpose of tourism despite the temptation to replace this with modern archtecture, long live old town(kibokoni)

electricity house, n the broom, am not sure sambody passed by as i took the shot

a better view of social security house, @ africannese, what do u think,

Hi All,

I would like to post this recent article from a kenyan living in Nigeria as you will notice this inter cultural interation is helping us move Africa forward and enlightening other people too. We have to learn to slove our own problems and learn from our mistakes otherwise no matter how beautiful a country is , we might not wake up to find it.

AFRICA INSIGHT: After Mau Mau, Kenya’s December polls second lesson for Africa


Publication Date: 3/7/2008 
Since the 1950s when the vast shadow of Mau Mau fighters urged Africa to engage in a mass revolt as a way of winning back dignity for the black man, the fright that Kenya’s general elections in 2007 gave Nigeria may turn out to be her second major service to Pan-Africanism. And the first in the 21st Century, writes OKELLO OCULI, NATION writer, Nigeria

A growing phobia about elections is sweeping across Nigeria. 


Former Nigerian army ruler and opposition politician Muhammadu Buhari (centre) enters the court of Appeals in Abuja. Photo/ REUTERS
Television pictures and graphic radio reports of burning and looting of property across Kenya, have combined with local experiences of election-related violence across Nigeria during the 2007 national elections and current primaries of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party to cast grave doubts about the wisdom of conducting elections.

Most Kenyans are unaware of the depth of the combination of shock, shame, disappointment and even despair, that swept across Nigeria as reports flowed in about the violence that followed their country’s December 27, 2007 elections.

For a people who have been collectively questioning what they see as a dismal performance by their political, economic and religious leaders since their independence in 1960, Nigerians had seen Kenya as a rare gem in Africa where things seemed to work. They were right.

Sudan, Kenya’s neighbour to the north, has a grim record of turning bloodletting into a religious obligation. Somalia to the east disintegrated with rebels overthrowing Siad Barre who died in Lagos as an exile. Eastern neighbour Uganda suffered under failed leadership combined with tribalised barbarism under Idi Amin. A vicious civil war would follow before Yoweri Museveni restored order.

And, genocidal waves in Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo brought more despair to several generations of Nigerians.

In Nigeria’s immediate neighbourhood, the ebb and flow of economic and civil war-generated refugees within and across borders from Ghana, Niger, Chad, Sierra Leone, Guinea and Ivory Coast shut sunlight out of the affairs of black Africa.

A stubborn sense of optimism (for which a BBC survey found Nigerians to be leading optimists in the world) made the West African nation cling to Kenya’s status as a success story in an under-performing continent. I have heard Nigerian passengers single out the special attention they receive from stewards and ground staff of Kenya Airways despite occasional, brutal lambastes when flights run late.

The airline’s boast of being the “Pride of Africa” is taken in with an unspoken satisfaction in a world where Western media take great delight in criticising everything African.

However, some Nigerian visitors to Kenya fly out deeply irritated by what they see as Kenya’s undue deference to Euro-Asian citizens and the expatriates who work for the numerous international organisations based in the country. 

To the Nigerians, the situation is made more poignant by the glaring contrasts they see between the lives of the expats and the multitudes of unemployed Kenyans. But, that things seemed to work in Kenya despite Moi-era bursts of ethnic violence and a failed coup in 1982 kept Kenya’s flag flying high in hearts and minds across West Africa.

The shock that came with Kenya’s post-election violence also borrowed fuel from the dismay and depth of anger that had torn through Nigeria when the country woke up to an April 2007 election that had been rigged with a unique form of sadism. 

A deepening sense of impoverishment during the Olusegun Obasanjo regime (1999-2007) had, as the saying goes, “cooked people” in readiness for the whirlwinds of rejection by voters that would toss all those associated with his power into a dustbin. However, Prof Maurice Iwu, the head of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission INEC), the ignored electoral crimes. These included: the rampant use of guns to snatch away ballot boxes, frighten away voters from polling booths or to kill opponents. There was also the withholding of electoral material so that polling stations would open as late as 6pm (instead of the stipulated 8am); taking ballot boxes to party offices and thumb-printing ballot papers. 

Furious voters in Enugu, the capital of Enugu State and who had waited in vain to vote, burnt the offices of the election agency. 

In the Nasarawa State, next to Nigeria’s federal capital, Abuja, officials of the opposition All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) were alleged to have created alternative polling booths to which they allowed only voters from the Egom ethnic group in which the party had overwhelming support. 

In Bauchi and Lagos States, civil society organisations have reported that winning was determined by how much money a candidate for governorship could pay election officials or thugs to intimidate election officials to return figures in his favour. 

In the face of such alchemy of electoral sins, INEC announced losers as winners and vice versa. In Enugu and Rivers states the boss of INEC announced winners from Abuja while voting was reported to be still in progress.

The other irregularities that rendered the Nigerian election aftermath a messy affair are emerging from the election tribunals that have annulled many spurious victories.

In Adamawa State, for example, a governorship candidate of the Action Congress Party had his name removed from the ballot paper on the morning of the election. That brazenness may have been influenced by  the patronage of the winner Governor Murtala Nyako. Critics accuse Mr Nyako, who was recently removed from office, of rushing into office and putting 6,000 personal aides on official payroll in the name of reducing unemployment. 

In Kano State, critics allege that the governor employs an official whose duty is to ferret out information about deaths in the State so that the governor can win public support by sending condolences and attending burials. 

A former governor of Taraba State, now  on bail from prison, for corruption was alleged to have paid his most furious guard dog a monthly salary equivalent to that of a senior civil servant while some other governors have sought to win popular support by buying air tickets for over 1,000 pilgrims to travel to Mecca.

Critics contrast these trappings of power won through rigged elections with the condition of roads and other indicators of corruption. 

In Yobe State, a major road carries potholes that turn a 45-minute drive into a six-hour ordeal. In Gombe State, aides to the governor ride four-wheel drive Hummer jeeps that cost about $60,000 (Sh4.2 million) each. In the same state, a national television news report showed thousands of school children attending lessons while sitting either on  mud floors or under trees.

The anti-corruption agency that former president Olusegun Obasanjo let loose on graft kings has unearthed a deeper rot than was expected regarding the levels of public funds misappropriated by politicians who knew that they would never win in free and fair elections.

Now that the mothers and fathers of children schooling under trees as Hummers zoom by knew that the continued stay in power by the thieves meant more suffering; and that the corrupt were determined to hold on to power, violence was the only graceful road to political salvation.

And so it came to pass that the April local government elections and the on-going primaries for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, are bathed in blood and clothed in arson.

An election phobia sweeps across Nigeria, all roads to power being lined with machetes. In panic, the ruling party has turned inwards to search for traditional democracy. By this is meant that process by which communities consult openly and frankly among themselves before settling for a mutually agreed-on candidate.

In Communist China this approach was called “talking bitterness” as it involved an unflattering evaluation of the candidates.

Television pictures are showing football stadia packed with PDP delegates “choosing consensus candidates”. All the same, there are grave fears of possibilities of future election violence as police virtually failed to intercept the huge numbers of guns flowing into Nigeria to arm private armies by candidates. Consequently, it is still a mystery that no loser of the April 2007 elections used guns to reject the results. This  stroke of luck notwithstanding, Kenya’s experience has apparently taught Nigeria’s politicians not to wait for the virus to hit them.

But there is also another story to tell. Since election tribunals started delivering their verdicts, up to seven state governors have been tossed out. 

In Benue State alone, two senators have lost their seats. The fate of the third, David Mark, (who is also the President of the Senate) hangs in the balance. 

The failure of the petition against President Umaru Yar’Adua’s victory was blamed on the failure by the lawyers for Gen Muhammadu Buhari and former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, his challengers, to prove, beyond reasonable doubt that their clients had suffered fatally from noted evidence of election malpractice. 

To many Nigerians, Yar’Adua’s victory sits like a gold coin on a mass of steaming cow dung. 

Yar’Adua has popularised himself since coming to power by implementing court decisions  against  his government. His ruling party is, however, acutely aware of its severe deficit of legitimacy and its indebtedness to the courts.

The intensity of public revulsion to the impunity with which elections were rigged may have brought Nigeria on the brink of mass uprising. The reaction of Nigeria’s political engineers to this brinkmanship also put them on the political pill called consensus as a way of preserving the nation.

In short, since the 1950s, when the vast historical shadow of Kenya’s Mau Mau fighters urged Africa to a mass revolt as a way of winning back dignity for the black man, the fright that Kenya’s general elections in 2007 gave Nigeria may turn out to be the East African nation’s second major service to Pan-Africanism. And its first in the 21st Century.

more mombasa pics

below is old mombasa town (quite old) with the newer section in the background.

KISUMU CITY Y'ALL!















Lake Victoria in Kisumu

Wow,

Kenya is so beautiful.

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Early morning


Clear blue sky


University of Nairobi


Airport at night with the city in the background


I&M Tower night

You kenya people no dey tire sha

For the place to be beautiful something had to give

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Hotel Boulevard, Museum Hill/Uhuru highway-Nairobi

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One of the Steers branches in Nairobi, Muindi Mbingu st.?

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gamine, who denied that something had to give? i have always said if you want to talk about kenya's shortcomings just start a thread for that and tell us about it and i will give you a good dose of kenya's problems. this thread is for showing the the good side of nairobi and i intent to stick to that. after all who doesnt know that nairobi has one of the biggest slums? the reality is that some of you are just hating but you keep coming back which really makes no sence.

Nairobi is a extremely beautiful city no doubt about it. Its good to see the positive side of East Africa for once, and trust me alot more East African cities are like that, but its never in the spot light, hopeful it will be in due time.

mHeN yoU MeAn ThAtS nAiRoBI. . . .AmA gOnA Go On hOlS thEre sOmETImE. . .SwEet LiKe LeMOn!

Gamine:

You kenya people no dey tire sha

For the place to be beautiful something had to give

Thou at it again. Gal how many times will Africanise say it?. start a thread on the ugly side of Kenya, we shall give u a run for it. As per this we gonna celebrate the city in the sun. Meanwhile r we not going samwhere.? With public transport getting terminus outside the City center n having Nairobi CBD buses to cruise in the town. It has never been better than now. I hear we r fixing a light rail network in the next 5yrs n probably have electric trains. It more on the pilot stage, lets watch this space!

Hi volina or anyone, how do you post pics here without uploading on flickr, i have some realy great pics i would love to share. Asante

Hi volina or anyone, how do you post pics here without uploading on flickr, i have some realy great pics i would love to share. Asante

maasai!!:

Hi volina or anyone, how do you post pics here without uploading on flickr, i have some realy great pics i would love to share. Asante

niaje maasai? siku mingi. nway do you have the pictures saved in ur computer? or you have them on a website? when i have pics saved on my computer i go to photobucket.com upload them to that site and them post them on this forum. if you got them on a website then copy the adress(whats on the adress bar) and then put the adress between [img]http://&[/img]

Sema africanese, thanks for the info will try that

maasai you're welcome.

more pics thanx badaa-boy

africanise, goood jobo.ave no camera now but got to buy another one.thats why am MIA.

Hey you guys thought i would share with you these pics, enjoy

The hilton nairobi cb


South coast, ah i wish i was here
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