Africa’s Melting Pot!
I would have started by writing that “there is no greater believer in the reach and power of social media than myself”, if it were true. But I am in there with millions of others who feel as strongly, desire as passionately, and who are participating even more fervently than myself. The beauty of Social Media and its inherent power has been in its ability to connect people and interests. It is with this in mind that I wish to publish the content below which was sent to me by Juliet Maruru. She herself has been at the forefront of using social media to encourage emerging writers to become. She is now introducing Afr

When Crimes were Simpler…
I was still very young. We woke up one morning to find our kitchen window wide open. It did not take a genius to figure out that we had been robbed. We went outside the house and sure enough, we found the evidence of the activity that took place the night before. From our window to the gate and beyond, we found a tract; not two like those made a bicycle, not wide like those made by a car; just one tract like that made by a wheelbarrow. We followed it like breadcrumbs with the eagerness of cartoon characters believing that it would lead us to the perpetrators of this heinous crime. But no sooner had it reached the main road than it ended. The tarmac road was a street

Romance and Lack Thereof.
I not a romantic. I wrote earlier that I am embarrassed by emotions and that is the gospel truth. Just the other day, I talked to my ex and she told me that she failed to connect with me on an emotional level. That was her take on why we broke up. I am still not sure and never bothered to ponder over it because what’s done is done. But I am not sure what it is people mean when they say connect on an emotional level. I can be emotional,I guess, but I hide it when I am because I am embarrassed by it. I just watched August Rush and I was moved. That kid playing the guitar like that was classic. But what made m

Blogs I read and October Agenda.
I have not been here for a while now. I visit now and then but I am mostly on other blogs, earlier only to read but lately to also engage. I have visited sites that are relevant to my start-up and the funny thing is that whatever I google, I end up on a blog as opposed to a website. The result has been my subscription to so many great blogs that I need to keep my eyes on especially if I am to stay ahead of the industry with top notch information and emerging trends whose impacts may be just as great here as they have been abroad. So every few hours, I get an email from one of my many blog subscriptions and as much as the inflow of emails has been overwhelming, it

The RINGERA–MAU TRADE-OFF: Controversy vs. Compromise!
I remember vividly an episode of Boston Public that I watched a while back where this teacher could not bring herself to compromise on a heated topic. Every time that it seemed they would reach some deal, she would say something that would throw the whole thing into disarray. At one point, the head teacher of this Boston Public  just lost it after this lady yet again refused a deal that was proposed. “Why do you always snatch controversy from the jaws of compromise?” he snapped. This lady then cowered and went ahead to compromise on the issue at hand. But is controversy such a bad thing and compromise an exceptional quality. I think not. Today, Ringera, he of the c