#Kenya
Facebook/Meta is doing what it does best: getting rid of their content moderators.
They recently laid off their Kenyan team consisting of 180 people. The team was being paid absolute shit, have no savings, and have been barred from re-submitting applications. They have a fundraiser that is currently only at 7% of its goal.
https://gogetfunding.com/african-content-moderators/
https://nation.africa/kenya/news/kenyan-court-says-it-can-hear-case-against-meta-on-unlawful-sacking--4206480
https://www.ft.com/content/afeb56f2-9ba5-4103-890d-91291aea4caa
Meta obviously hasn't learned from what happened in Ethiopia. In 2020–2022, an estimated 385,000–600,000 (the conservative count) died in the Tigray war. This war was largely fueled by a desire for ethnic cleansing, which was exacerbated and spread by Facebook posts. These posts containing hate speech would have been caught if Meta had an adequate content moderation team.
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/ethiopia-hate-speech/
https://www.npr.org/2022/12/17/1142873282/facebook-meta-lawsuit-ethiopia-kenya-abrham-amare
With about half a million people dead and 13 million affected by the resulting famine, Facebook is currently being sued for 1.6 billion. And instead of making sure that their social media site doesn't insight violence, they're laying off moderators and pouring money into virtual worlds that no one actually wants.
If you have the money, please donate to the ex-moderator's legal fund. The more legal pressure put on Meta means a lower chance of another genocide.
https://gogetfunding.com/african-content-moderators/
Link soup ahead:
#facebook #meta #metaVerse #tormentNexus #markZuckerberg #Tigray #TigrayWar #kenya #ethiopia #genocide #ethnicCleansing #donate
#affirmativeAction #legalFunds #fundraiser #fundraising #contentModerator #contentModeration #employment #poverty
#Kleinia stapeliformis
#Succulents not #cacti
#southAfrica #kenya #botany #plantscience @plants
Al-Shabaab used similar tactics they used against #Kenya defence forces in January 2016, where they overrun the military base and killed 200+ soldiers, to overrun the UPDF military base in #Somalia.
Museveni blames 'panicked' soldiers after al-Shabaab overruns military base in Somalia - The Standard
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/africa/article/2001473918
About 1,300 LGBTI refugees in Kenya need protection and a path to new homes abroad
#LGBT #LGBTrights #LGBTQ #humanrights #LGBTQrights #Africa #Kenya #refugees #Kakuma #UNHCR @amnestyintl @NGLHRC
Kenyan president accuses tax agency of graft as economy struggles
The endangered golden-rumped elephant shrew has seen its population in a Kenyan forest reserve increase by 52% in a decade, upending researchers’ fears of extinction due to hunting and habitat loss.
The latest population survey credits the rabbit-sized mammal’s high adaptability to human-disturbed landscapes, including plantations of exotic tree species.
by Ryan Truscott
https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/study-shows-kenyan-elephant-shrew-may-be-adapting-to-human-disturbance-drought/
EU aims to seal trade deals with Australia, Kenya in a few months https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/eu-aims-to-seal-trade-deals-with-australia-kenya-in-a-few-months/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Australia #Kenya
EU aims to seal trade deals with Australia, Kenya in a few months https://www.euractiv.com/section/economy-jobs/news/eu-aims-to-seal-trade-deals-with-australia-kenya-in-a-few-months/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Australia #Kenya
"The winner-takes-all political systems of countries like #Ghana, #Kenya, #Nigeria and #SierraLeone face a related problem: they have very small independent private sectors. So winners are tempted to use political power to grab national resources." https://theconversation.com/kenyas-political-elites-switch-parties-with-every-election-how-this-fuels-violence-205005
This is a useful overview of #Ethiopia's ambitious but flawed national housing program from Hone Mandefro. Lots of applications to the housing program that #Kenya is trying to expand https://theconversation.com/ethiopia-has-one-of-africas-most-ambitious-housing-policies-but-the-lottery-based-system-is-pulling-communities-apart-204816
Thanks 🇱🇺Amb. @olivierjmaes for Luxembourg's support.
The EU & its Member States are major donors in the horn of Africa region. Drawing attention to crises early on and acting swiftly to help people in need. This current crisis is no different.
RT @olivierjmaes: Today I took part in #HornOfAfrica Conference. #Luxembourg🇱🇺 pledged #humanitarian support of 2.15 million € in 2023 for populations in need in #Ethiopia🇪🇹 #Kenya🇰🇪& #Somalia🇸🇴through @ICRC @WFP @UNOCHA …
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EUatUN/status/1661477478832152579
The #InternationalCriminalCourt has created a platform that allows individuals & organisations to share evidence with the ICC Prosecutor, including eye-witness testimony, documents, photos, videos. The #ICC is currently investigating crimes that may have been committed in #Afghanistan #Bangladesh #Burundi #CoteDIvoire #CAR #Darfur #DRCongo #Georgia #Kenya #Libya #Mali #Myanmar #Nigeria #Philippines #Palestine #Uganda #Ukraine #Venezuela. See more at:
https://otplink.icc-cpi.int/ #AtrocityCrimes
Disbelief in Kenya over alleged Chinese cyberattack on gov’t data
#Kenya's court of appeal has rejected government's application to import GMO maize.
One person has died as cases of cholera hit 73 in Homa Bay County, #Kenya, local media reported.
"Oltre 1,9 milioni di bambini rischiano la vita a causa di una grave malnutrizione."
#Ethiopia #Kenya #Somalia #HumanRights #climateCrisis #capitalismo #NOwar #PACE
#Peace #children #25maggio
#China's "debt trap diplomacy", #PRC Shell Co's To 88 Countries $386B About To Cause Death & Upheaval:
https://fortune.com/2023/05/18/china-belt-road-loans-pakistan-sri-lanka-africa-collapse-economic-instability/
#Pakistan
#Kenya #G20InKashmir #G20Summit2023 #G20Meeting #ChineseLending #BeltandRoad #Vietnam #Zambia #USLending #Mongolia #Laos #Cambodia #SriLanka #AsiaPacific
Lindsey sei una grande artista con un cuore grande. ❤️
(NoGodNoMaster 🏴☠️ e mi sciolgo con questi video 😥 )
🎻🎶 Brilla una luce attraverso una porta aperta🎶 🎻
Amore e vita che dividerò 🎶 🎻
Lindsey Stirling - We Found Love (VenTribe) 🎻
#mastoradio #kenya #beinghuman #LindseyStirling
https://i.devol.it/watch?v=0g9poWKKpbU
The Sweetwaters chimpanzee sanctuary was opened in 1993 by an agreement between Ol Pejeta conservancy, Kenya Wildlife Service and The Jane Goodall Institute. nowhere you can see chimpanzees in #Kenya only in Ol Pejeta.
Hackers in #China targeted the government of #Kenya in a widespread, years-long series of digital intrusions against key ministries and state institutions, reports Reuters. https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/chinese-hackers-attacked-kenyan-government-debt-strains-grew-2023-05-24/
In Nairobi, immigrants to #Kenya (and also low income Kenyans) regularly get harassed and extorted by by city council guards known as kanjo. Here's a snapshot from Akello Odenyo at Debunk Media https://debunk.media/surviving-nairobi-as-an-african-immigrant/
🎶🎶 70s & 80s Kenyan Benga & Afro-Cuban Rumba
📨 Kenyan Benga & Afro-Cuban Rumba playlist from the 3-LP set from Soundway Records' release "Kenya Special - Selected East African Recordings from the 1970s and '80s".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZFmE6KO5Ps
#️⃣ #OldAfricanMusic #70smusic #80smusic #AfroCuban #Benga #Compilation #Kenya #Rumba
🎶🎶 Nyege Nyege Tapes – Music for the Eagles
📨 East African Underground shows a group of innovative artists throughout the region, trying to build a creative community and share their future-forward music, pushing boundaries. [...]
#️⃣ #Electro #EDM #HipHop #Kenya #Mixtape #Nigeria #SouthAfrica #Tanzania #Uganda
Liar 🤥 Liar 🤥 Pants on Fire 🔥 #Politics #PoliticalNews #Kenya #Kenyans #Tax #EconomicHardship #EconomicCrisis #Economy #IMF #Loan #Liar #Corruption #Government #WilliamRuto #Africa #Taxes
Aid agencies back UN’s $7bn appeal for Horn of Africa food crisis
In exciting news for transport nerds, #Uganda has secured new financing to secure the SGR to Malaba. This might unlock the rest of the funding #Kenya needs to finish building its railway line from Naivasha to Malaba as well https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/business/uganda-renews-hope-of-kenya-extending-its-sgr-to-malaba-4229316
Now the gov't in #Kenya seems to be acknowledging this with a line in the new finance bill that reduces taxes on local plastic manufacturing https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/tea/news/east-africa/kenya-shoots-self-in-the-foot-in-war-on-plastics-4231954
#Kenya's attempts to ban plastic bags have met with mixed success, reducing volume slightly but not eliminating it due to lack of enforcement and lack of other available options, writes Jane Mutheu Mutune at The Conversation Africa https://theconversation.com/kenya-banned-plastic-bags-6-years-ago-but-they-are-still-in-use-what-went-wrong-199422
"With the adoption of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), countries such as #Kenya are stepping up efforts to “build back #biodiversity".
Globally, Kenya is classified among the 10 mega-biodiverse nations.
it is increasingly emerging that concerted efforts that integrate biodiversity conservation and restoration should be adopted."
https://iucn.org/blog/202305/linking-science-and-policy-propel-biodiversity-action-kenya
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #OpenAI #Kenya #Fauxtomation: "The type of work Mathenge performed has been crucial for bots like ChatGPT and Google’s Bard to function and to feel so magical. But the human cost of the effort been widely overlooked. In a process called “Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback,” or RLHF, bots become smarter as humans label content, teaching them how to optimize based on that feedback. A.I. leaders, including OpenAI’s Sam Altman, have praised the practice’s technical effectiveness, yet they rarely talk about the cost some humans pay to align the A.I. systems with our values. Mathenge and his colleagues were on the business end of that reality.
Mathenge earned a degree from Nairobi’s Africa Nazarene University in 2018 and quickly got to work in the city’s technology sector. In 2021, he applied for work with Sama, an A.I. annotation service that’s worked for companies like OpenAI. After Sama hired Mathenge, it put him to work labeling LiDAR images for self-driving cars. He’d review the images and pick out people, other vehicles, and objects, helping the models better understand what they encountered on the road.
When that project wrapped, Mathenge was transferred to work on OpenAI’s models. And there, he encountered the disturbing texts. OpenAI told me it believed it was paying its Sama contractors $12.50 per hour, but Mathenge says he and his colleagues earned approximately $1 per hour, and sometimes less. Spending their days steeped in depictions of incest, bestiality, and other explicit scenes, the team began growing withdrawn."
https://slate.com/technology/2023/05/openai-chatgpt-training-kenya-traumatic.html
https://archive.org/details/njia-panda
Njia Panda by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o; John Ndeti Somba
Topics
#Kiswahili, #Kenya, #riwaya, #ukoloni, #ukristo
"Njia panda ni tafsiri ya Kiswahili ya The River Between, kilichoandikwa na mwandishi maarufu Mkenya, Ngugi wa Thiong'o."
Get-rich-quick schemes, pyramids and ponzis: five signs you’re being scammed
(#Africa edition)
"[...] In the early 1990s, MMM Global - one of the world’s largest and most notorious ponzi schemes - defrauded up to 40 million people, who lost an estimated $10 billion. Ponzi schemes have since resurfaced in different forms in #SouthAfrica, #Nigeria, #Zimbabwe, #Kenya, #Ghana and several other African countries."
The #German ministries led by the #GreenParty demanded binding #sustainability standards for the #TradeAgreement with #Kenya. The #SPD chancellery refused. Implementation could now only be #monitored.
Beautiful capture in #Kenya, #Africa with Kilimanjaro in backdrop
📸 @davidmrule
By #AmazingNature
#Nature #NatureLovers #Wildlife #NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Photography #Photographer #Video #Science
‘In a lot of the world, the clock has hit midnight’: #China is calling in #loans to dozens of countries from #Pakistan to #Kenya https://fortune.com/2023/05/18/china-belt-road-loans-pakistan-sri-lanka-africa-collapse-economic-instability/
China’s loans pushing world’s poorest countries to brink of collapse.
The AP "found paying back that debt is consuming an ever-greater amount of the tax revenue needed to keep schools open, provide electricity and pay for food and fuel."
BIG PICTURE
Fired up: Kenyan police during riots
in Nairobi on 2 May as the opposition defied a police ban and staged new demos over the cost of living crisis and last year’s election results in which William Ruto won the presidency.
Photo: Luis Tato/AFP via Getty Images #kenya #nairobi #thecontinent
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ywMAFnBd8AQ&feature=share
⚡️🇰🇪STEM Courses in Rural Kenya Open Doors for Girls With Disabilities (VoA News VIDEO) #Ukraine #NATO #Press #News #Kenya #Africa #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
"Leader of Kenyan waste pickers: ‘We are the backbone of recycling’"
This is really something - content moderators forming unions.
Workers for third-party outsourcing companies contracted to OpenAI, FB & TikTok establishing African Content Moderators Union.
https://time.com/6275995/chatgpt-facebook-african-workers-union/
Well done to billyperrigo.com for his important journalism exposing what has been happening
#resistance #bigtech #AI #ChatGPT #Kenya #union #workers #Meta #TikTok #law
Six lions killed by herders in blow to Kenya’s conservation push
Kenya starvation cult death toll climbs to 201
https://archive.org/details/mwakenya
Mwakenya: The Unfinished Revolution. Selected Documents of the Mwakenya - December Twelve Movement (1974-2002) by Maina wa Kĩnyattĩ
Topics
#Kenya, #Kenyanpolitics, #politicsofKenya, #Kenyanpoliticalhistory, #Kenyanleftism, #Kenyanleft, #socialism, #neocolonialism, #WorkersPartyofKenya, #DecemberTwelveMovement, #marxism, #marxismleninism, #Mwakenya, #antiimperialism, #marxisminAfrica, #marxisminKenya, #revolutionarypolitics, #Africanpolitics, #20thcenturypolitics, #europeanimperialism, #britishimperialism, #usimperialism, #anticapitalism, #MwakenyaMovement, #MuunganowaWazalendowaKenya, #UnionofPatrioticKenyans, #politicaleconomy
"This volume represents the development of the WPK/DTM-Mwakenya’s anti-imperialist line in Kenya from1974 to 2002. The Mwakenya Movement (Muungano wa Wazalendo wa Kenya/ Union of Patriotic Kenyans) was an underground socialist movement in Kenya in the 1980s formed to fight for multi-party democracy.
Independence means self-determination and self-government. An independent nation is one with the autonomy to make decisions, which will advance the welfare of its people. It is a nation that controls its own resources, and has the political and economic scope to utilise these resources, human and natural, free of foreign interference.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YCtEuTE8hkE&feature=share
⚠️🇰🇪Kenyan volunteers train slum residents to prepare for extreme weather (FRANCE 24 English News VIDEO) #Ukraine #NATO #Press #Kenya #Africa #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kk_fiPSao-g&feature=share
⚠️🇰🇪Kenya cult leader remains in jail as bodies are exhumed (AP News VIDEO) #Ukraine #NATO #Press #News #Kenya #Africa #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive
So, my team's product launched today.
#Terraso is an open source tool for integrated landscape management. In our first two years we focused on data and mapping, focusing on making a story-mapping experience that everyone can access.
Today a bunch of Kenyan landscape members created storymaps and landscapes. I'm tired but so, so, excited about what's coming next.
Check out a story map about a Mangroves project in Kenya:
https://app.terraso.org/tools/story-maps/72ce51cc/ceriops-mangroves-project
Autopsies on corpses found in mass graves linked to a religious cult in #Kenya reveal missing organs and raise suspicions of forced harvesting, according to investigators. A fresh round of exhumations is set to resume today. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/autopsies-reveal-missing-organs-kenya-100401550.html
Kenyan president sets up inquiry into religious cult deaths
#Kenya : 150 travailleurs de l’industrie de l’ #IA créent un syndicat
https://www.nextinpact.com/lebrief/71612/kenya-150-travailleurs-lindustrie-lia-creent-syndicat
Tous employés ou anciens employés d’entreprises d’externalisation de ce que le sociologue Antonio Casilli qualifie de « travail du clic », ils ont participé à modérer des contenus diffusés sur les plateformes de Meta (propriétaire de Facebook, Instagram et WhatsApp), de Bytedance (propriétaire de TikTok) et d’OpenAI (derrière ChatGPT et Dall-E).
#Kenya proposes bill to tax #crypto and #NFT transfers https://web.archive.org/web/20230505111024/https://crypto.news/kenya-proposes-bill-to-tax-crypto-and-nft-transfers/
“The typical country town street”
Njoro is an agricultural town 18 km west south west of Nakuru, Kenya situated on the western rim of the Rift Valley.
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/travels/africa/kenya/the-typical-country-town-street/
📅 27th February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R
🎞️ ISO 160, ƒ/1.2, 1/10000s
#Travel #TravelPhotography #Africa #Kenya #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
Kenya opposition suspends protest after agreement with government
“The Snows of Kilimanjaro”
Amboseli National Park is a national park in Kenya that spreads across the Kenya-Tanzania border. It has great views of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest free-standing mountain in the world.
Almost 85 percent of…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/travels/africa/kenya/amboseli/the-snows-of-kilimanjaro/
📅 1st March 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + Fujinon XF 27mm f/2.8
🎞️ ISO 200, ƒ/8, 1/1100s
#Travel #TravelPhotography #Africa #Kenya #AmboseliNationalPark #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto #MastoArt
ℹ️ Confirmed: An internet outage has been registered on leading #Kenya internet provider Safaricom; the operator reports that it is experiencing challenges affecting its network 📉
#Kenya president calls for jailing of starvation cult leader. https://nation.africa/kenya/news/politics/ruto-speaks-shakahola-cult-paul-mackenzie-belongs-in-jail-4210598
Court rules Meta can be sued in Kenya over alleged unlawful redundancies
“If symptoms persist, seek medical advice”
Most stores in small Kenyan towns are like big advertisement billboards, covered with one single intense color and brand or product names.
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/travels/africa/kenya/if-symptoms-persist-seek-medical-advice/
📅 27th February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R
🎞️ ISO 160, ƒ/1.2, 1/22000s
#Travels #Africa #Kenya #Photo #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto
The Internet of Things with #RaspberryPi Pico is a free two-day workshop taking place in #Nairobi, #Kenya in May.
Learn more and sign up here:
https://events.raspberrypi.com/official/0ce2b2d6-88bd-4c93-9250-12fc5aa3d80f
(Deadline for applications is 23 April)
“Blue Hotel”
Does it remind you about Chris Isaak's song? 😁
There are a lot of such small hotels in towns and villages we passed through during our safari. This one in Ntulelei, on the road between Nairobi and the Masai Mara National Reserve, was one of the most…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/travels/africa/kenya/blue-hotel/
📅 25th February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R
🎞️ ISO 160, ƒ/1.2, 1/10500s
#Travels #Africa #Kenya #Photo #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto
“The Mau Escarpment in Great Rift Valley”
Great Rift Valley is part of an intra-continental ridge system that runs through Kenya from north to south. It is part of the Gregory Rift, the eastern branch of the East African Rift, which starts in Tanzania to the south and…
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/travels/africa/kenya/the-mau-escarpment-in-great-rift-valley/
📅 27th February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R
🎞️ ISO 160, ƒ/1.2, 1/9000s
#Travels #Africa #Kenya #Photo #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto
A total of 33.5 million people across #Ethiopia, #Kenya, and #Somalia don't have enough safe drinking water. The hungriest people here are also the thirstiest.
One in five people in East #Africa don't have safe water to drink.
#WorldWaterDay
East Africa hunger crisis: America | Oxfam
https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/emergencies/east-africa-hunger-crisis/
First ship with 30 thousand tons of Ukrainian wheat arrived in Kenya as part of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Grain from Ukraine #humanitarian program
The official ceremony of receiving the cargo was attended by Deputy President of the Republic of #Kenya Rigathi Gachagua, Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Kenya Andrii Pravednyk
Read more here🔗 https://www.president.gov.ua/en/news/u-mezhah-gumanitarnoyi-programi-volodimira-zelenskogo-grain-81693
#Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState
#СлаваУкраїні! #StandWithUkraine
“The village”
We have been fortunate enough to visit an actual Maasai village with the son of the village's chef, an incredible experience.
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/travels/africa/kenya/maasai-mara/the-village/
📅 26th February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + Fujinon XF 27mm f/2.8
🎞️ ISO 200, ƒ/6.4, 1/950s
#Travels #Africa #Kenya #MaasaiMaraNationalReserve #Photo #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto
Kenya’s long rains – which typically run from March to May – keep failing in parts of the country. Some regions have now experienced the failure of five rainy seasons in a row. Victor Ongoma, a meteorologist and climate expert, shares his insights into why this is happening.
https://theconversation.com/kenyas-seasonal-rains-keep-failing-what-needs-to-be-done-115635
The orphaned buffalo's calf in Mount #Kenya national park in 2017, specifically in William Holden animal orphanage, the same has really grown by 2021
“Majestic Kilimanjaro”
Amboseli National Park is a national park in Kenya that spreads across the Kenya-Tanzania border. It has great views of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest free-standing mountain in the world.
This awesome view, the large…
📅 28th February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R
🎞️ ISO 200, ƒ/4, 1/900s
#Travels #Africa #Kenya #AmboseliNationalPark #Photo #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/travels/africa/kenya/amboseli/majestic-kilimanjaro/
Kenya: Transgender Activist Le Toya Johnson says the backlash that the Supreme Court judgment has received from the clergy and legislators is unwarranted and left members of the LGBTQ Community fearing for their lives. https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/news/2023/03/lgbtq-activist-le-toya-tells-mps-clerics-to-tone-down-on-supreme-court-judgement/
“40°C? No problem…”
It is impressive to see these Kenyans playing soccer in the sun at 40°C, while we could hardly stand the heat even in the shade.
📅 28th February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R
🎞️ ISO 200, ƒ/2, 1/5800s
#Travels #Africa #Kenya #AmboseliNationalPark #Photo #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/travels/africa/kenya/amboseli/40-c-no-problem/
Ngugi Wa Thiong’o: The Language of Languages: Reflections on Translation
"Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, plays, and memoirs, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has been at the forefront of world literature for decades. He has also been, in his own words, “a language warrior,” fighting for indigenous African languages to find their rightful place in the literary world."
#NgugiWaThiongo #African #Translation #Languages #Literature #Books #BlackMastodon #Kenya #Art
Scientists have a mystery on their hands after the discovery of 330 stone tools about 2.9 million years old at a site in #Kenya, along Lake Victoria's shores, that were used to butcher animals, including hippos, and pound plant material for food.
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Kenyan Woman Turns Non-Recyclable Plastic Into Bricks 7 Times Stronger Than Concrete
29-year-old Kenyan inventor Nzambi Matee was tired of tripping over #plastic in her home city of #Narobi, which generates over 500 tons of plastic #waste a day, only a small fraction of which is recycled.
#Kenya #Africa #Innovation #Recycle
www.gjenge.co.ke/
“Children propelling a tire”
Children love to play, and they don't need much in the way of accessories.
Here, we offer them a thousand sophisticated and expensive gifts, and they sometimes prefer to play with packing boxes...
Over there, in Kenya for example, they…
📅 27th February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T3 + Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R
🎞️ ISO 160, ƒ/1.2, 1/5000s
#Travels #Africa #Kenya #Photo #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/travels/africa/kenya/children-propelling-a-tire/
Meta’s attempt to dodge trial in Kenya thwarted by judge.
A lawsuit alleges forced labour, human trafficking and union busting in Facebook’s content moderation hub in Nairobi.
#Meta #Socialmedia #Moderation #Nairobi #Kenya #humantrafficking #law
“The iconic acacia tree in front of Mount Kilimanjaro”
The plains surrounding Kilimanjaro (the “lowlands”), are located between 600 and 800 meters above sea level. The climate is very hot and dry.
The vegetation is mainly composed of…
📅 28th February 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + Fujinon XF 56mm f/1.2 R
🎞️ ISO 200, ƒ/1.2, 1/12800s
#Travels #Africa #Kenya #AmboseliNationalPark #Photo #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto
#facebook tried to dodge case brought against it by sacked #contentModerator Daniel in #kenya because it "doesn't operate in Kenya" - despite having its African Moderation hub in #nairobi Thankfully, they failed and the case can now proceed
#Billionaires and #billionaire owned tech are not our friends. When it looks like they make your life better, you can bet it's at someone's expense (quite possibly yours).
https://www.foxglove.org.uk/2023/02/06/facebook-daniel-failed/
“On the move…”
📅 1st March 2019
📸 Fujifilm X-T2 + Fujinon XF 27mm f/2.8
🎞️ ISO 200, ƒ/10, 1/220s
#Travels #Africa #Kenya #AmboseliNationalPark #Photo #Photography #PhotoOfTheDay #DailyPhoto
🔎 https://nicolas-hoizey.photo/galleries/travels/africa/kenya/amboseli/on-the-move/
First was #Strathmore University's #DataScience Week, covering a wide range of topics and issues, from how to get into data science, to impactful research and projects for #Kenya and around the world, and more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVdI1359S5w (2/6)