Wajibu Magazine is out: Digitizing Kenya

Now Available in all major bookstores in Nairobi.

Content:

• Digitizing Kenya: some cracks in the digital divide
• Preventing collective amnesia: The challenge of preserving digital materials in the age of the internet
• Tourism and the Internet: what prospects for the small operator?
• Blogging About Kenya: National Discourse in a Transnational Space
• Digitally Networked Technology in Kenya's 2007-2008 Post-Election Crisis
  

Features:

• Making a difference: Africa Yoga Project – Journey into Power with Baron Baptiste
• Youth Speaks: Daring to live anew / Rose Njeri Ng’anga /
• Book review: It’s our turn to eat / Michaela Wrong /
  
• Poetry by Philo Ikonya

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Wajibu Magazine: Kenya - One Year On and 4 to go...

In this issue:

• Editorial: Shailja Patel
• Ethnicity abounds: Kenya's Identity Crisis by Mugambi Kiai
• UNFINISHED BUSINESS FROM KRIEGLER'S IREC by Kenyans for Peace, Truth and Justice (KPTJ)
• BATTERED, BRUISED AND BROKEN by Ann Njogu
• ENDING IMPUNITY: The WAKI report by Kenyans for Peace, Truth and Justice (KPTJ)
• On the frontlines of the struggle: Diary of an imprisoned activist by Patrick Kamotho Githinji
• The Truth, Justice And Reconciliation Commission: A flawed law by Ndung'u Wainaina
• Grassroots activists take on the coalition government: Out of touch with reality by George Nyongesa
• A strategy for change: Maina Kiai speaks to Kwamchetsi Makokha
• TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND THE RULE OF LAW: Lessons from the Truth Commissions in Africa by George Wachira
• Kenya in Darkness: Excerpts from the diary of an activist by Philo Ikonya
  

PLUS: Free 12 page insert from the Partnership for Change (MARS Group) entitled, "From Dictatorial Impunity to Democractic Accountability in Kenya (Issue 2)



WAJIBU can be obtained for Ksh. 200/= at the following outlets: Stanley Kiosk, Simply Books, University of Nairobi Bookshop, Catholic Bookshop, LISS library at the Rahimtulla Trust Building on Mfangano Street, Books First (Yaya Centre) and Monty's (Sarit Centre). Or email dpinkenya (@) yahoo (dot) co (dot) uk

Special thanks to Kenyans for Peace Truth and Justice and Media Focus on Africa for supporting this print run.

WAJIBU MAGAZINE: Values for a planet in turmoil

"In this issue of WAJIBU, we seek to interrogate how our values have changed with time; we examine where our traditional values meet with what can be referred to as modern universal values. And never before has there been such an opportune time to reflect on these matters. This year Kenyans witnessed unprecedented inter-community violence following the 2007 presidential election fiasco; we also observed a level of violence in our schools never before seen in our country. And currently the world is facing what might turn out to be its biggest economic meltdown ever. Across from our continent, a country that has for years been a symbol of racial discrimination has elected a man from a minority racial group as its president. In the last few years in Kenya, words and phrases such as ‘the culture of impunity’, ‘corruption’, ‘warlords’ ‘school violence’ ‘greed’ and ‘tribalism’ have become part of our common lexicon, betraying the things that we should value the most. The question is: how have things always been?" (Charles Otieno-Hongo)

· Editorial - Charles Otieno-Hongo
· Traditional African leadership institutions - Betty Wamalwa Muragori
· Can African traditional values be revived? Interview with Rev. Dr. John Gatu - Njeri Kang’ethe
· Performing the self - Chamo Nyadhi - Oby Obyerodhyambo
· A rose by any other name - Shilpa Jain
· Africa and the challenges of development – is religion a help or a hindrance? - Pete Henriot
· Violence in Kenyan schools – is it a question of values? - Isaac Ochieng
· From traditional values to African modern values? - Sally Ireri
· Male circumcision – are we cutting a piece of culture? - Dipesh Pabari
· Are African extended families a blessing or a curse today? - Nicholas Rabach.
· POETRY CORNER - Annetta Miller
· YOUTH SHOUT – Arise from complacent slumber - Christine Mungai.
· BOOK REVIEW – Uwem Akpan: Say you’re one of them - Muthoni Garland
· MAKING A DIFFERENCE – Islamic banking - Cathy Majtenyi

Available at all major book stores in Nairobi or contact: wakurayag (at) yahoo (dot) com