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Permanent link to archive for 7/10/05. Sunday, July 10, 2005

The ugly, the bad, the good.

The ugly: the bombings in London...I've nothing more to add beyond what's been expressed elsewhere.

The bad: Due to a combination of the bar exam, trying to sort out my post-bar plans, the inevitable drama that pops up at the worst time possible, and a general lack of blogging mo-jo, Kenyan Pundit will be going on a temporary hiatus.

The good: If all works out as planned, when I return, I will be blogging in full-force from Kenya...details to come.

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Permanent link to archive for 7/6/05. Wednesday, July 6, 2005

Moving beyond the echo chamber

Disclaimer: Ignore the typos...this is very rushed.

I think those who have raised the navel-gazing critique have a point.   So what next?   What exactly does "Africans need to help themselves" mean in concrete terms, and what realistic alternatives the critics of Live 8 offering? 

The bar exam is hanging over my head (3 weeks away, panic!!!!)  so I can't address this as well as I'd like to and I'll just copy comment I left on Bullets and Honey.  

"Anon @ 12:47 says: "Africa needs Africans to wake up to the reality that the only people with anything to gain from Africa's development are Africans themselves."
I think we are arguably there now as far as acknowledging that the rest of the world isn't doing us any favors, and I think the issue is how to move beyond the "awareness" debate. While I agree with MMK's rejoinder as far as the value of armchair critiquing...I think the underlying challenge posed by the critics of navel gazing is worth addressing with more than just a "my opinion matters." Many Africans have have criticized Live 8's goal of raising awareness with a "so what?"  Along the same lines, I ask, now that Africans are aware of their reality, "so what?" The refrain "taking ownership of our problems" has been floating around a lot around this debate (and I'm guilty of being in this school of thought), but I know from experience that's it's easier said than done... and I think that unless we confront the "what have YOU done lately argument" or "what IS YOUR practical idea" with more than "who are YOU to ask me, what I AM doing" we are not that much more than what we accuse the West, the NGOs, the politicians, Bob Geldof, of doing. Granted not everyone, can or should come up with a plan of action...lakini we should be trying to do more than transforming into an echo chamber."

I write what follows below hesistantly, because I'm not sure the point I'm trying to make comes across well.

At the risk of sounding self-promotional, due to a combination of sheer doggedness and good fortune, I've managed to go back to and spend time working in Kenya almost every year since 1998.  Each visit I make home has included an idea or an attempt to do my micro-part in the "Africans need to help themselves" equation...with mixed results.  I just wanted to highlight some the challenges that I've faced when trying to do stuff in Kenya with the hope that we can begin to think more concretely about how to move forward.

My experience includes government, NGOs, educational institutions, and the private sector:

- someone inevitably thinks that you are after their job and gets all defensive;
- couple this with an unbelievable (and pointless!) sense of self-importance from the various "bosses"...and I'm not just talking about politicians... see e.g. (http://kenyadigit.blogspot.com/2005/07/ocw-demo.html) for a perfect illustration of what I am talking about;
- people often act like they are the ones who are doing you a favor and you are the one who has to do all the running around, the phonecalls, the emails, and deal with getting bounced at least once or twice for a meeting;
- hard to find anyone who wants to execute;
(I should throw in sexual harassment that's at an unbelievable level, even for those who are not "politically correct" but that's a subject for another blog).

A quick example... I tried to do something very simple with my former high school based on a model that former students from Alliance Boys high school have implemented very well i.e. mentor students who are applying to universities in the U.S. e.g. by offering tips on how to write personal statements and editing personal statements and tips on applying for financial aid  (Kenyans tend to be very humble and this doesn't lend itself well to the lack of humility that's required to sell yourself well on paper).  I also thought it would be helpful for the girls to  interact with someone who was once in their same position and who managed to work her way to a top school in the U.S   So during one of my trips back home I make two unsuccessful attempts to try and meet with the principal or deputy principal with no luck.   I leave my mobile number with the secretary so that they can call me to set a meeting up to see how I can be useful as a mentor to the girls, but no one calls me.   I make one last trip and run into the deputy principal by coincidence, she's aware that i've been trying to meet with her and claims that she's been busy (this is during school holidays) and is too busy to chat now.   So I do a quick pitch of my idea and give her my contact information and ask her to please let the students know that I am available as a mentor on anything - from law school, to scholarships etc., and also asked her not to hesitate to follow-up with me on how we can establish a formal mentorship program.   Never heard from her or anyone in the school administration.    About two months later, two students send me an email seeking advice about applying to universities.   I'm thinking wow, maybe this can actually work.   I begin corresponding with the students and peppering them with info, and eventually managed to meet with them in person during a subsequent visit to Kenya.   How did they find out about me?   My offer to assist was announced at some random morning assembly in passing...along the lines of "there's a former student of the high school at Harvard law, she has offered to help students who are applying to schools in the States, here's her email."  Better than nothing I guess, but still?   The two girls told me that if you weren't paying attention (and most students rarely pay attention to assembly announcements) you would have missed it.  

So there goes one attempt.   I will try again to set something up with the school and maybe be more persistent, but there's only so much a person can do.

Now if I was some fancy international NGO, expat type, concerned about the "girl-child" and armed with a mentorship proposal and concomittant workshops and seminars....I suspect my former high school  and all other other folks I have tried to unsuccessfully work with in the past would have given me a red carpet welcome.  You can't hate on the donor community for that, can you?.

I have lots more stories illustrating how 2+2 often = 3 in Kenya, but I need to go and grapple with Secured Transactions and Commercial Paper.  

I should point out that I have had very successful experiences as far as doing my share to make a difference, but they've all been at the individual to individual level...important, but not enough for the kind of change we are looking for.   And I'm sure for every bad experience I've had, there are people who've had success stories...if so, please share them so we can learn (maybe my ideas are just half-baked!).   

My point, I guess, is that I would now like to see the question of "what can we as Africans do" handled with as much vigor and honesty as the Live 8 debate.  As Owukori points out, "finding solutions is far harder than making criticisms."

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Permanent link to archive for 7/5/05. Tuesday, July 5, 2005

Introducing what I believe is the first blog to be authored by a mainstream Kenyan journalist

See, Live 8 has been good for something :-) 

Karibu John Kamau, and hope you can infect other journalists in Kenya with the blogging fever.

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African journalists blog about Live 8 and G8

Good stuff, including coverage from Jikomboe's Ndesanjo and from Kenyan journalist John Kamau.

Also worth a look is the BBC's roundup of African blogs discussing Live 8 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4649043.stm).

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Permanent link to archive for 7/4/05. Monday, July 4, 2005

Report proves what many of us already suspected...Kenyan MPs are the laziest in Africa

BTW I just found out the other day that in addition to their hefty salaries, the MPs get a Kshs 5,000 sitting allowance every time they attend Parliament!!!!  Many MPs supposedly just attend Parliament to collect their allowances so that they can have "walking around money."  This is apparently, why folks who are lobbying for a particular bill have to organize trips to Mombasa otherwise few MPs will show up, because they don't want to miss their allowance.

And what's with everyone treating Kaparo like some kind of hero just because he articulated what Kenyans already know.   I mean, his speech was commendable but I don't think it qualifies as courageous.  The positive and negative response the speech has elicited really highlights the non-presence of civil society in Kenya nowadays, hello?? it's been three years since the last elections...time to wake up.   Perhaps that's why Kaparo is the national hero of the week...finding accountability in Kenya nowadays is mission impossible.  And didn't Kaparo just recently lambast the last group to conduct a report on attendance in Parliament?  If I remember correctly, one of his remarks was something along the lines of "who do these young people think they are?" because the report was compiled by never-to-be-heard-from-"young"-people.

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Permanent link to archive for 7/3/05. Sunday, July 3, 2005

"Coined the word weblog, but never got a dime."

Via Metafilter.

Excerpt from the article:

"He was the unstoppable Usenet poster who could carry on simultaneous debates about Ibsen, Chomsky, artificial intelligence, and Kate Bush. He was the keeper of the James Joyce FAQ. Barger's prolific posting made him famous, if not popular, in the proto­blogosphere. Barger crossed over from Usenet to the Web in 1997 and set up his own site, which he dubbed the Robot Wisdom Weblog. He began logging his online discoveries as he stumbled on them - hence "weblog." I barely understood what he was talking about, and still I read him giddily. Barger gave a name to the fledgling phenomenon and set the tone for a million blogs to come. Robot Wisdom bounced unapologetically from high culture to low, from silly to serious, from politics to porn."

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Permanent link to archive for 7/1/05. Friday, July 1, 2005

A Tale of the Wabenzi

Hat tip Muchoki!

I should comment, but I've just come back from a draining six hour simulation of the bar exam and my brain won't function.

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Permanent link to archive for 6/30/05. Thursday, June 30, 2005

Iranian elections...lessons for Africa's flailing democracies?

I have been following the Iranian elections fairly closely, not just because it is an important news story and because of the efforts of fellow Global Voices bridgeblogger, Hoder(http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iranblog23jun23,0,3595596.story?coll=la-home-world), but also because I think the challenges facing the reform movement/those who want change in Iran are somewhat similar (yes this is a somewhat crude analogy and all the things unique to Iran aside) to the challenges facing countries like Zimbabwe and Ethiopia, and possibly countries like Kenya given the demographics and the growing sense of apathy among young people.     

How do you match up the realization that your government is screwed up with whatever it will take to change things?  How do you fight apathy?  Is reform from within possible?  What happens when despots mask their legitimacy with "free and fair" elections?   What happens when the so-called reformists fail to address one of the most critical problems facing many African countries - the gap between the rich and the poor?  What happens when so-call reformists legitimize corruption (e.g. by writing it into the budget in the form of $17 million official limos)?   How do you move to the next stage of enhancing accountability in African governments once you do have reasonably free and fair elections?   Who are the reformers speaking for?  Are the reform movements guilty of being too much of an echo chamber?  Have reformists failed to deal with the fact that elections are not won by voters in Nairobi, Addis, Tehran, Harare, the diaspora etc.?  If so, what new strategies should they adopt? 

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Permanent link to archive for 6/29/05. Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Why Telkom Kenya is in crisis...

As Bankelele previously noted Jaindi Kisero has been on a roll with some great reporting/investigative journalism.

One of the startling revelations:Telkom Kenya currently employs 1,009 watchmen, 1,115 messengers, and 1,028 porters!

To put things in perspective, a quick Google search reveals that Safaricom has a staff of 520.

According to Kisero, "the regime of President Moi had turned this strategic public utility (Telkom Kenya) into a dumping ground for ordinary-level and primary school drop-outs." Out out of a total of 17,480 employees, only 399 or 2 percent are university graduates. A staggering 80% of Telkom's operational expenses consists of labor costs!

Now there's been a lot of gnashing of teeth (including those of yours truly) about the failures of the current NARC regime, but anyone who has been questioning whether the 2002 "regime change" really changed anything should seek some comfort from this story (as disturbing as it is)...things might not be getting THAT much better under NARC, but I can't even begin to contemplate where the country would have been had KANU won in 2002.

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Permanent link to archive for 6/28/05. Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Permanent link to archive for 6/27/05. Monday, June 27, 2005

Some more great pics of Nairobi

Hat tip Kenyan Prodigal Daughter!


Studying for the bar exam is truly, truly, miserable.   I think a Kenyan Pundit hiatus will soon be inevitable...in the meantime, I will try to stop convincing myself that watching any law-related TV show (particularly any variation of the Law and Order reruns that always seem to be on) qualifies as studying for the bar.  

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Permanent link to archive for 6/26/05. Sunday, June 26, 2005

KANU tries to clean up house

This news is a bit dated.  The only reason I'm linking to it is because according to people in the know, Dalmas Otieno who is currently KANU's national V-P, deserves much of the credit for getting party organized and focused e.g. with their blueprints, plan of actions etc. (think of him as the Karl Rove of sorts).    The ugliest part of the 2007 elections will probably be the nomination phase, especially now that being a member of parliament in Kenya is more lucrative than its ever been.   By having their grassroots elections etc. sorted out, KANU is already way ahead of the game.  

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Permanent link to archive for 6/24/05. Friday, June 24, 2005
Permanent link to archive for 6/23/05. Thursday, June 23, 2005

On debt relief and Kenya

So Kenya has been left out of the first round of the recently announced G-8 debt relief initiative, because the country's debt is sustainable i.e. you are poor but not that poor. 

Kenya's annual debt service obligation is amounts to about $1 billion a year. 

Putting aside arguments about whether Kenya really qualifies for debt relief under the prevailing mysterious formulas, and assuming that there are no concerns about the whether debt relief is worth pursuing because the money saved will be squandered away by corrupt politicians anyway...what if Kenya just decided not to pay, or at least decided to give priority to its domestic obligations?  

The government is reported to have "not pursued debt relief vigorously in the past as it believed that cancellations would reduce its credit rating in financial markets and work against affordable credit for the private sector and other investors, a view shared by the World Bank."  

Argentina may, however, offer an alternative perspective.

Some excerpts:

"A May 23 MercoPress article reported that Kirchner “admitted that with the 2001/02 default Argentina lost international credibility, but since the very difficult debt swap ‘we’ve done an excellent job in spite that some multilateral organizations don’t like what Argentina did to achieve it’.” President Kirchner insisted Argentina wants to repay the IMF, “we want to honour debts. It would be a dream not to be dependent on the IMF, but how far must the effort and sacrifice of the Argentine society go to satisfy demands?"

"Capitalists who took their money out of the country following the 2001 collapse, abandoning their firms and leaving the workers to their fate, are now — seeing a healthier economy to enrich themselves on once more — starting to return. In their absence, workers in hundreds of such firms took them over and keep them running under their control. A number of these firms have been nationalised. The former owners are now back and trying to claim ownership once again over the companies they abandoned."


EDIT: This piece from Open Democracy offers even more insight into the Argentinia story. http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/argentinapolitics_2538.jsp

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Permanent link to archive for 6/22/05. Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Permanent link to archive for 6/21/05. Tuesday, June 21, 2005

Wangari Maathai interview on the Connection (06/21/05 - 9:00 pm)

The archived version should be available in Real Audio after the show.

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When subtitles go wrong...

I watched a couple of bootlegged DVDs when I was in Kenya and ended up getting engrossed in how wrong the sub-titles were.   Can someone please explain why the bootleggers are providing (bad) English sub-titles to movies that are in English anyway?

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Permanent link to archive for 6/20/05. Monday, June 20, 2005

Kenya Dig It?

The debate on brain-drain and Africa has been making the African blogosphere rounds over the last few weeks and is nicely captured by Ethan Zuckerman.  Ethan thinks the pivotal question in trying to figure out things whether brain drain is a good thing or bad thing is "Does the diaspora come home (in the long term)?"  As a potential brain drainee and a one-woman poverty reduction strategy as far as people who rely on my remittances back home are concerned, I am a fence-sitter on this debate. 

I do think that making a contribution to your country of origin (remittances aside) where your skills are much needed is not mutually exclusive with building a career or a life overseas, especially now that technology has made communication much easier...one just has to be creative about it.    The MIT-AITI program, which was started by a group of African undergraduates, and whose impact is currently being chronicled in the "Kenya Dig It" blog is one example of this.   

My spin on Ethan's question... does the diaspora have to go back home?

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Permanent link to archive for 6/19/05. Sunday, June 19, 2005
Permanent link to archive for 6/18/05. Saturday, June 18, 2005
Permanent link to archive for 6/17/05. Friday, June 17, 2005

Rugby = sexy?

My father was always dubious about my newly-discovered interest in rugby once I got to high school.   He'd never heard of people, let alone teenage girls, spending their Saturday afternoons watching rugby.  Those were the days you would just "die" if you missed the Prescott cup etc.  In the negotiations that preceded being given permission to attend, I'd always insist that I was a real fan of the game (as I left the house all decked out to go "watch" the game) and I'd tell him that he was the one behind the times since "everyone" was into rugby.   One day when I got back from a game (that in my defense couldn't have been important), he asked me who won...I was busted. 


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On reinventing African universities.

Some excerpts form the article:

"The main role of the first generation of African universities was to create civil servants. Unfortunately, this classical model has become the template within which new universities are created, even though social and economic needs have changed radically. The continent needs a new generation of universities that can serve as engines of both community development and social renewal.

The task ahead is not simply one of raising more funds. It will require deliberate efforts by governments, academia, business and civil society to reinvent higher education and put it to the service of the African people. To achieve this, a qualitative change in the goals, functions and structure of the university is needed."

"The good news is that Africa has a large number of important innovations in higher education to learn from, many of which are from the continent itself, or elsewhere in the developing world....In South Africa, Stellenbosch University was the first teaching institution in the world to design and launch a satellite. The project focused on designing a curriculum intended to help solve specific problems such as developing new products or improving the environment, and not to simply produce graduates.

Africa's reconstruction challenges require creating the technical competence needed to design and manage infrastructure projects. The Kigali Institute of Science, Technology and Management (KIST) in Rwanda shows how higher education institutions can help transform the communities in which they are located.   In another shining example of business 'incubation' is the University of Zambia. This was the midwife of Zamnet, the country's largest Internet provider. Zambia's experience demonstrates that universities have great potential for creativity and innovation, even under the most difficult financial conditions. Numerous Brazilian universities have adopted a similar approach as part of their regular mission. In Uganda, Makerere University has developed a new approach to teaching that enables students to contribute significantly to the solution of public health problems in their communities...."

"Many of these examples are a result of isolated initiatives, some resulting from government foresight, others from occasional academic entrepreneurship, or just serendipity. The challenge facing Africa is to move away from relying on luck and tenacity, and to create an environment that helps to realise the developmental role of universities across the continent."

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Permanent link to archive for 6/16/05. Thursday, June 16, 2005

Hahaha

"Kenya would like to follow South Africa's lead in firing graft-tainted officials, but has not yet found one "iota of proof" to take such steps, a government spokesman said on Thursday.

Hasn't the government spokesman, Alfred Mutua, learned when to shut up?   His statements always make even the most incompetent Kenyan politician look brilliant.   According to Mutua: 
"You cannot compare that to the Kenyan experience. The Kenyan experience has not had an iota of proof. We've only had speculation," Kenyan government spokesman Alfred Mutua said in response to a reporter's question.

Why did John Githongo resign  again?


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Permanent link to archive for 6/15/05. Wednesday, June 15, 2005

New youth-based political party launched in Kenya

Interestingly enough, the two main daily newspapers in Kenya appear not to have covered this story.  Hopefully the party will gain traction.  

I truly, truly, believe that getting young people to engage in politics and getting them to articulate their demands and transform themselves into a viable political bloc is the best way forward for Kenya, and for Africa in general.   The restlessness among young people is palpable, and it could easily manifest itself in negative ways if the situation continues as is.   The demographics also  dramatically bolster this - 42.5% of Kenya's population is aged between 0 and 14.    Only 2.3% if Kenya's population is aged 65 and above.  

Any guesses as to what percentage of the Cabinet and the current Parliament is aged over 65?   Any guesses as to whether they are concerned with issues that impact the majority of the Kenyan population - the youth?  

A brief digression
:  The Republican Party provides a useful model for what the current political parties in Kenya should be doing if they plan to remain relevant beyond the next one or two elections...inevitably, I think the numbers, if nothing else, will demand a shift in what it will take to win an election in Kenya.  Getting the youth votewill just be as important as playing the tribal math (unfortunately tribalism will still be a reality in Kenyan politics for a while to come, although hopefully a diminishing one as the population gets younger).   Conversely, young people will be a political force in a few years, whether they are engaged or not...the challenge is to get them engaged so that they are not merely used by the powers that be.  

All the debates currently raging both in Kenya/Africa and outside of Kenya/Africa about aid to Kenya/Africa, debt relief, governance, democratic space, etc. will impact the youth in Africa more than anyone else, and yet I don't see the youth anywhere at the formal table.

Thankfully, the blogosphere is at least giving us an opportunity to make ourselves heard, limited though the audience may be, and is giving us an opportunity to know that our thoughts and expressions resonate beyond our individual selves.  Most importantly, in my mind, we are comfortable in highlighting our individuality in a manner that does not detract from our Kenyanness.   As Mental notes, "Kenyan blogs have thrown the spotlight on the plurality of Kenyan opinion. We do not all think the same and we do not all hold similar views, yet we can share the same space and debate. The sign of a healthy community. Now we have to infect the rest of the country!"

When I look at the growing Kenyan blogosphere I keep saying to myself, "Wow!  This is just a small, small, small, indicator of what's out there as far as creative, intellectual, artistic, scientific, and yes, mad potential."   Just imagine if this potential could be unleashed beyond the virtual world?  Or imagine if more could be done to push the boundaries in the real world that continue to limit us?*

I know I am not the only one who feels this way, and I only need to point to this incredible post by WM of Diary of a Mad Kenyan Woman, and the comments that follow to prove that.   

* These are not rhetorical questions, I'm actually working on trying to make the leap, and join WM in encouraging others to do the same.

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Permanent link to archive for 6/14/05. Tuesday, June 14, 2005

Blogging and citizen media links

Some neat links I've come across recently...

  • We Media: How audiences are shaping the future of news and information.  An excerpt:   Those who participate online usually create content to inform and entertain others. But creating also builds self-esteem and, in Maslow's view, it's an act of self-actualization. We derive fulfillment from the act of creation.   "Five percent of the populace (probably even less) can create. The others watch, listen, read, consume," says Marc Canter, one of the founders of Macromedia and now chairman and founder of Broadband Mechanics. "I think one of the destinies of digital technology is to enable the other 95 percent to express their creativity somehow. That's the gestalt view.""Digital cameras, storytelling, assembling stuff from existing content, annotating, reviews, conversations, linking topics together — are all forms of creativity," Canter says. "(Weblogging is) at the core of creativity — expressing your feelings, opinions and showing everyone else what you think is important."15   Traditional media tend to understate the value of participation journalism, holding that comments, reviews and content created by "amateurs" provide little value to their mass audience. As such, they are missing the inherent psychological value of the creative process to the individual.

Also, Ethan Zuckerman just got back from the PUSH 2005 conference and has some great coverage of the conference, including some thoughts from the founder of Grameen Phone, Iqbal Quadir.   According to Iqbal, "...poor people are eager learners because they don't have the luxury of not learning."  Indeed.   

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Permanent link to archive for 6/13/05. Monday, June 13, 2005

Voice recordings of court proceedings to start in major Kenyan courts

This is good news, but was a workshop in Mombasa really necessary to help "launch" this?   Do we need technical experts from the World Bank and the coterie of accompanying "consultants" to let us know that anything other than the system we have in Kenya right now where judges and magistrates hand-write all  testimony will be an improvement and will help improve the accountability of the judiciary?   Just who is paying for the technical expertise and the numerous seminars and needs-assessment exercises that I'm sure it took to reach this conclusion?   Perhaps, the funds that were used to "launch" the project could have been used to expand the reach of the project.

Anyway, I guess it is a start.  

When I was working in Kenya a few months ago, I blogged about the horror stories I'd heard from litigants as a result of the lack of a mechanized court reporting system.   For instance, one reason why pursuing appeals in Kenya is often a useless endeavor, especially when there are glaring mistakes regarding issues of fact/testimonial evidence, is that the appellate court relies on the record that was hand-written by the very judge who ruled against you.   First, the appellate court is unlikely to want to second-guess a fellow member of the judiciary regardless of the strength of your arguments.  It's your word against him or her.   Second, if the judge was not paying attention/fell asleep/etc. and missed a point you are out of luck. You do get the opportunity to review everything at the end of the testimony and sign off on it as a "check" of sorts, but from what I heard this is at best just a limited check and sometimes you may not know what to look for at that particular point.    Third, if the judge was bribed by the other side to later make certain parts of the testimony "disappear" you are essentially screwed, because you have little to back you up.  

I asked someone why they just don't have court clerks who exclusively record the testimony, if that's the only way to do it.   At least the judge can at least have his attention focused on one thing.  I was told that the judge was believed to be the most trustworthy person to handle the recording of testimony (hah!).   Let's not even go into how tedious and time-consuming this is.  

One person I talked to was involved in a wrongful death civil suit, and  told me that it took almost an hour just to get her background information elicted from her when she was on the stand.   This is a recap of how it went (names have been changed):

Judge:  "State your name for the record."
Plaintiff:  "Jacinta Wambui."
Judge: "Please speak loudly and slowly."
Plaintiff: "Jacinta Wambui."
Judge: "Is that Jacinta with a ja or je?"
Plaintiff: "It is spelt J-a-c-i-n-t-a."
Judge: "Is that Wambui with an oi or ui?"
Plaintiff: "ui"

And this goes on and on for date of birth, occupation, husband's name, childrens' names etc.  I can just see that judge asking, "Na hii jina Ory, inatoka wapi? Ni jina ya ki-Kenya kweli?" (This name Ory, where is it from? Is it really a Kenyan name?).  You can just imagine what's involved when it comes to testimony regarding the actual events that took place.  



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UUnet Kenya gets set to launch its own international gateway

Permanent link to archive for 6/12/05. Sunday, June 12, 2005
Permanent link to archive for 6/10/05. Friday, June 10, 2005

As Ringera earns Kshs 2 million a month with little to show for it...

...here's an example of what his office could be doing.   

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Permanent link to archive for 6/8/05. Wednesday, June 8, 2005

Graduation is here!

Eliot Spitzer rocks.

Will be back in a few days.

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