Recent Posts Tagged With 'nairobi'

• World's Oldest Student is Dead

  Posted on Friday August 14th, 2009 at 14:54 in africa, south africa, Government, kenya, nairobi, eldoret, kenya film commission, great rift valley

  He made headlines, in Kenya and internationally as being the oldest pupil in the world. He had taken advantage of the free primary school that the Kenyan Thieves Government had pretended to offer for... This post gets funnier over here ...

• Sad Saturday

  Posted on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 08:12 in education, africa, business, kenya, nairobi, plane crash, slum, kibera, wilson airport, kibera kid, highrise estate

  It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, and having just done a productive instructors meeting at the Kibera Film School which is opening on Monday, ( a story for another day Nate and I are lying in bed... This post gets funnier over here ...

• A tiny country called Africa

  Posted on Tuesday July 14th, 2009 at 00:05 in africa, United States, Government, UK, kenya, nairobi, mombasa, koinange street

  To help reduce the amount of ignorance that Americans, eer sorry, rest of the world has for Kenya and the rest of Africa, I will dedicate the next couple of posts to the Africa Awareness. No, I will... This post gets funnier over here ...

• The Update

  Posted on Sunday April 26th, 2009 at 23:53 in nairobi, slumdog millionaire, red camera, filming in kenya, kibera kid, nathann collett

  For 6 weeks, I was on Pre-prod, producing a feature film set in Kibera, the biggest slum in Africa. The cast is drawn from the slum, most with no prior filmin experience. The crew, with the... This post gets funnier over here ...

• The Land of Opportunities

  Posted on Saturday April 5th, 2008 at 16:45 in Career, films, paid to write, house md, nairobi, los angeles, binyavanga wainaina, ginger ink films, producers kenya, filming in africa, filming in kenya, how to write about africa

  My boss thinks in her sleep. She says those are the best ones.On Wednesday night, she thought. And her thoughts included me accompanying her to Los Angeles for a film locations expo. We are representing Kenya as a filming location, and meeting produc...

• Promises Promises..

  Posted on Sunday March 30th, 2008 at 17:25 in nairobi

  I'm back to Nairobi, blessed beautifully busy Nairobi. Have no emails to catch up on as i have been online (yeah, so much for my holiday). I made plans and never accomplished any, including that major one of going white water rafting. It rained every...

• The Great Wildebeest Migration Cont'd

  Posted on Tuesday March 4th, 2008 at 12:14 in kenya, nairobi, kicc, pop idols kenya

  I left off when the floodgates of KICC opened. and people poured in. The 'intelligent' ones from the back of the queue walked to the front, and we suddenly found ourselves in the middle of the bunch. I had made a couple of friends by now and formed ...

• The Great Migration (of the Wannabe Wildebeest)

  Posted on Saturday March 1st, 2008 at 01:33 in nairobi, kicc, pop idols kenya

  Being the concerned big sister that I am, I woke up at 4.00am to make sure that my sister was ready to go. Suddenly, it hit me that that was way too early, even for the most competitive soul. So I went back to sleep.. but I couldn't. All I could thi...