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US Ambassador Markets Kenya, Local Tourism to the Rescue

Kenya's tourist attraction: wildlife. A Let's Go Travel pic
Faced with a 53% drop in the number of international tourists arriving in Kenya in the first quarter of 2008 due to socio-political unrest, the ambassador of the United States of America to Kenya is appealing to Americans to come partake of the "country's dynamic and world-class tourism industry”.

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Life Need Not Be An Endless Journey, Or Does It?

A new book tackling issues such ignorance among southern Africans about HIV/AIDS, suspicion and mistrust among African immigrants in the United Kingdom and the challenges of one having to juggle more than three jobs to survive abroad, has just been released by UK-based Zimbabwean writer, Sarudzayi E Chifamba-Barnes. Set in Zimbabwe and the UK, reports JOYCE JENJE-MAKWENDA, The Endless Trail gives the reader an insight

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Kenyan Film Director Represents Africa in Hollywood, USA

Film Director Bob Nyanja represents Kenya and Africa at the Sony Studios in Hollywood, California, during a four-hour live broadcast that seeks to bring the world together through film on May 10, 2008. Nyanja, whose MALOONED, a 100-minute feature film set in a 15th floor toilet in a Nairobi skyscraper set a record for local films in Kenya by screening in major cinemas for the longest

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Canada-Based Ugandan Artist Releases New Book, Shares Her Vision For Africa

Jane Musoke-Nteyafas is a poet, painter, musician and African ambassador of sorts who describes herself as "creative, artistic, funny, loving, quirky, fashionable, well-read, well-traveled, cultured, multi-lingual and adventurous." Her collection of short stories, Butterflies of the Nile, is due for release in May 2008. A Moscow-born, Toronto-based Ugandan, Musoke-Nteyafas has lived in Read More
Kenyan Performing Artist Iddi Achieng Majuek Releases New Music Video

Betty Iddi Achieng Majuek, a leading singer,poet,  actress and community theatre practitioner in Kenya, has released her well loved Thim Lich music album on DVD.
Thim Lich, the 14-song album introduced with a special prayer for the singer’s mother, addresses issues such as love, traditional family values, gender equity and the beauty and strength of the African woman.

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    BOOKS
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    CULTURE
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    FASHION
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    FILM
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    MUSIC
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  • Kenyan Kiswahi Poet Releases Music Album

     

    THEATRE
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    TRAVEL
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  • Kenya Goes All Out To Lure Reluctant Tourists Back
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