From Ska , Rock Steady to Reggae: The Evolution.

Reggae is one of the genres of music that has received world wide acclamation for a variety of reasons. One journalist once described Bob Marley as ...a stoned Jamaican artist who worships a dead Ethiopian Dictator…this perhaps gives an insight into the good and bad vibes that people world wide have ascribed to this type of music. But how was reggae born, how did it evolve? In this blog I’ll try to give a glimpse into the beginnings of reggae and...

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African Reggae Legend at Ease; Lucky Dube's demise

18th Oct 2007. Thursday 9:00 pm. Johannesburg, South Africa. Africa’s leading Reggae icon Lucky Dube has been shot dead. The renowned reggae artist was shot in Rosettenville, one of the suburbs of the bustling South African city, considered to have one of the highest crime rates in the world. Lucky Dube 43, driving a blue polo, had just dropped of his son, when he was accosted by a gun man who shot him in what is believed to be a carjacking incident....

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Ethnicity; The Reality check.

.... "until the philosophy which hold one race/tribe superior, and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, every where is war...until there are no longer first class and second class citizens of any nation,...until the tribe or color of a man's skin is of no more significance than the color of his eyes,...war...until the basic human rights are equally guaranteed to all without regard to race/tribe ,....war..until that...

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xenophobic politics killing our country

well i entirely agree that the culture of impunity that has permeated in our country for quite a while has eroded the very fabric of our beloved country,what and really do for example our leaders stand for?Do changing parties like clothes convince me that this leaders are principled?its time for some of us youth stand on matters of principle and not elect this wolves back in parliament,what do you guys think out there?Posted by Mshefur Je...

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Xenophobic Parochial Nationalism

October 15th, 2007 A.D, Riverside Drive, Nairobi Kenya, 1305 hrs. Its that time of the year again when political temperatures reach boiling point, even busting the pipes at times, it seems like newly born moles we are still struggling to accommodate the democratic illumination that we have been offered of late. Our politics seems even more bizarre by the day as we form all kinds of political hybrids in the name of change…but what is increasingly...

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Blogsay @ DialogueKenya

.. Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers ... Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19 ...

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