No developing third world country can develop without knowledge transfer with the developed world, yes our country needs more foreigners to visit and stay. Someone sent this picture of a Chinese trader in Nairobi busy doing maize choma in one of the back streets of the CBD. This is very interesting, the Chinese can do […]

Nairobi Senator Mike Sonko has warned city county government over the recent hackings on hawkers. Senator Sonko posted violent images of alleged hawkers who have been badly cut in the head. Here is the post: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!! This brutality on Innocent hawkers by some rogue Nairobi city county Askaris has to stop. It is […]

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN OCTOBER 16, 2014 NAIROBI, Kenya — There’s a newcomer on the Nairobi restaurant scene: the White Waiter. The other night, Martin Mileveski, a smiley young man from Macedonia, leaned over a table of three immaculately dressed Kenyan women and delicately poured out the Captain Morgan rum. “Anything else I can get you ladies?” They […]

A security research has mapped out areas where robbers are likely to hasten your departure on earth if you live, work or on holiday in Nairobi. They include: 1. OiLibyia Petrol Station, Juja Road 2. Mathare’s Nigeria and Kosovo areas 3. Upper Gitanga Road 4. Congo in Kawangware 5. City Cotton near Wilson Airport 6. […]

By Silas Nyanchwani Nairobi is ruinously expensive. And it is getting worse. You will know this when you will take a young campus woman to an average restaurant and she asks for milk shake that goes for Sh 450. And all you have is 500. So you will be forced to pretend to be having […]

On Tuesday, old and young generations of Kiambu, grandmothers and fathers who survived colonialism, marched under Nairobi’s hot sun, past Jomo Kenyatta’s grave to the parliament. The march was a remarkable step towards rewriting so called ‘historical injustices’, demanding justice for all – not for communities and judging political action for their validity and not […]

“Welcome to the only university of Nairobi,the best university in Africa, south of Sahara desert, north of river Limpopo. My dear comrades,this is the only university with the tallest,darkest and handsome professors,shortest professors. As the sonu chairman, I will protect you from the unruly watchmen, policemen, lecturers and professors who might have ill intention of […]

According to the UN Intelligence feeds communicated to it’s staff in Nairobi this week, several areas within Nairobi City County are under high terror threat. This comes only days after Al Shabaab sent a warning to tourists planning on visiting Kenya to steer off or risk getting attacked. In the statement that came with owning […]

By Salline via Facebook Haki woi si nimecheka yangu yote!? This was in luo language and i hope to translate the joke; Nairobi west sitting near this frustrated jaluo man – then his phone rings and since I can hear the caller (am very close)…it is obvious the caller is owed money by my neighbor […]

A worrying beauty trend has emerged in Kenya for illegal ‘skin-bleaching’ injections which dramatically lighten the skin’s pigment. Popular among the Kenyan elite and costing around $70 a pop, the process involves injecting mercury-containing creams which are intended to be applied topically, allegedly because they work much faster to lighten the skin that way. ‘Nairobi […]

By Shem Mukalo Members of the public were earlier today treated to an adrenaline pumping and heart-fluttering drama along Racecourse road in Nairobi. A young woman who had arrived in Nairobberry, sorry I meant Nairobi, probably in her mid-twenties, caused quite a stir along the busy road after falling victim to the antics of some […]