Masai warriors graduate

masai morans coming of age
Kenya's Masai people hold a ceremony for their warriors to become tribal elders only every 10 to 15 years, when there are enough people of the right age group.

But the tradition is under threat as the population becomes more urban and more exposed to outside influences. BBC East Africa correspondent Peter Greste witnessed one of the ceremonies just outside Nairobi, where two of the men taking part told him how important the ceremony is for them.



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Mooz-lum featuring Nia long

The view of Muslims in the aftermath of the Twin Towers falling and the environment that has existed since. Writer/director Qasim Basir changes that with his critically acclaimed film, Mooz-lum, which tells the story of a young Muslim-American man (played by Evan Ross) struggling with his faith and identity.

Also starring Nia Long and Danny Glover, the film, which won Best Narrative Feature at this year’s Urbanworld Film Festival, is set for limited national release on February 11, 2011. Distributed through Peace Films and AMC Theatres, Mooz-lum is being promoted via digital media company Eventful, which is allowing moviegoers the unique opportunity to campaign (from now until January 21st) for their city to be one of the first 10 cities to premier the film.

Facebook connections around the world

Paul Butler a member of facebook's data infrastructure team map created a very visual map of users around the world.
The map clearly shows areas where facebook is widely used and some areas like china and central africa where facebook does not have many users.

From the map you can see the impact in Kenya and east africa.This goes to prove the social networking users are increasing daily in  East Africa.A lot of people have twitter, facebook and other popular web 2.0 accounts.

This what Paul said on his blog.


Visualizing data is like photography. Instead of starting with a blank canvas, you manipulate the lens used to present the data from a certain angle.

When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it. One that piqued my curiosity was the locality of friendship. I was interested in seeing how geography and political borders affected where people lived relative to their friends. I wanted a visualization that would show which cities had a lot of friendships between them.

I began by taking a sample of about ten million pairs of friends from Apache Hive, our data warehouse. I combined that data with each user's current city and summed the number of friends between each pair of cities. Then I merged the data with the longitude and latitude of each city.

At that point, I began exploring it in R, an open-source statistics environment. As a sanity check, I plotted points at some of the latitude and longitude coordinates. To my relief, what I saw was roughly an outline of the world. Next I erased the dots and plotted lines between the points. After a few minutes of rendering, a big white blob appeared in the center of the map. Some of the outer edges of the blob vaguely resembled the continents, but it was clear that I had too much data to get interesting results just by drawing lines. I thought that making the lines semi-transparent would do the trick, but I quickly realized that my graphing environment couldn't handle enough shades of color for it to work the way I wanted.

Instead I found a way to simulate the effect I wanted. I defined weights for each pair of cities as a function of the Euclidean distance between them and the number of friends between them. Then I plotted lines between the pairs by weight, so that pairs of cities with the most friendships between them were drawn on top of the others. I used a color ramp from black to blue to white, with each line's color depending on its weight. I also transformed some of the lines to wrap around the image, rather than spanning more than halfway around the world.

Kenyatta's House in London

Unveiling of the plaque to Jomo Kenyatta at 95 Cambridge Street, Pimlico. Shown from right to left are: Najib Balala, Kenya’s Minister of State for National Heritage, Uhuru Kenyatta, Leader of the Official Opposition and Kenyatta's son, and Joseph Muchemi, Kenya High Commissioner

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Wikileaks memo reveals Egypt's Nile fears over Sudan

River nile fears.Hopefully one day all countries can have an equal share of the water


A leaked US embassy cable has revealed Egypt's fears about the possibility of its neighbour Sudan breaking into two.

In the cable, written last year, a foreign ministry official urged the US to help postpone a referendum on independence for Southern Sudan.

The official said the creation of "a non-viable state" could threaten Egypt's access to the River Nile.

Cairo's Almasry Alyoum newspaper published the cable, one of thousands being released by Wikileaks.

Southern Sudan is due to vote in a referendum on independence in January.

But in the cable - from the US embassy in Cairo - the official talks of implications should south Sudan secede and concern is expressed about the River Nile - a lifeline for Egypt.

Egypt has in the past threatened to go to war with any country tampering with the Nile.

The official said the creation of "a non-viable state" could threaten Egypt's access to the Nile at a time when several countries are negotiating how to share the river's water.

The official presses the US to help postpone the referendum by four to six years.

Egypt clearly fears a new nation, Southern Sudan, would be more likely to side with the upstream countries of the Nile basin like Kenya, Uganda and Ethiopia.
Vital resource

Those countries believe a colonial era treaty which guarantees that Egypt receives most of the Nile water is unfair.

Egypt and Sudan are refusing to sign up to a new agreement.

The fact that south Sudan is oil rich is seen as a major reason for tension ahead of the referendum on independence.

However, some argue that the vital water resource is likely to be a far greater bone of contention in the region long after the oil wells have dried up.

Wikileaks has so far released more than 600 of 251,000 classified US diplomatic and military cables.

www.southsudanguide.com




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Is Kenya sabotaging its own broadband future?

is internet faster in Kenya?
Is it cheaper like we expected?
What is the impact on business ? New young internet millionaires in kenya?


Last year Click reported on the new undersea internet cables which promised to connect east Africa to the rest of the world and make broadband access affordable for the first time.

On his return to the country, Dan Simmons finds speeds have improved but fierce competition is starting to turn ugly.

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