Archive for February, 2010
Cinema Film Festival 24-28 February, 2010
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CINEMAFRICA FILM FESTIVAL 24-28 FEBRUARY, 2010
KENYA FILMS SHOWING
(www.cinemafrica.se)
‘In my Genes’ by Lupita Nyong’o
Mwaura says in the film ‘In My Genes’ that he had as a child dreamt of being black. He does not anymore. For then he would lose his identity and become one in the crowd. Anyone who has albinism in Kenya is called ‘mzungu’ which means white person in Swahili. One can never hide being Albino, never, blend. It is not just to deal with prejudice and the outside world but also all the health risks: sensitivity to the sun, the risk of blindness and skin cancer.
In the film, we meet eight people, both young and old, each with albinism. They argue with humour and integrity about their situation and how their lives are affected in terms ranging form alienation and diseases, sexuality, identity and love relationships.
Director: Lupita Nyong’o – Kenya
Dates:
Friday 26th February 2010 at 17:30 – Klarabiografen
Saturday 27th Febraury 2010 at 11:00 – Bio Rio
‘Soul Boy’ by Hawa Essumans
Abil wakes up one morning at his home in Nairobi slums and discovers that his father’s soul has disappeared. The boy now has twenty-four hours in which to resdiscover the soul before it gets lost. A magical tale of a boy’s struggle, which is almost entirely shot in Kibera slums of Nairobi, one of the world’s largest slums.
Soul Boy is produced in cooperation with the German director Tom Tykwers (director of the kultförklararde Run Lola Run 1998). This photo is strance and beautiful and Hawa Essuman has created a story completely beyond the stereotypical images we are accustomed to see. A story full of love and hope.
Director: Hawa Essuman – Kenya
Dates:
Saturday 27th Febraury 2010 at 11:00 – Bio Rio
Sunday 28th February 2010 at 15:00 – Zita
‘Pumzi’ by Wanuri Kahiu
A suggestive science-fiction movie about a future where every drop of water is valuable. It’s ben 35 years since World War III and living in a research institute under the earth somewhere in Kenya is the young woman Asha together with a group of survivors. Down there is every drop of water carefully to be, it it so be extracted from human body fluids. Above the earth there is no life left. But Asha’s dream is about to come true. ‘Pumzi’ means breath in Swahili.
Director: Wanuri Kahiu – Kenya
Dates:
Saturday 27th Febraury 2010 at 11:00 – Bio Rio
Sunday 28th Febraury 2010 at 17:00 – Zita
From the Kenya Embassy Website
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Serena In Kenya…
Serena the world tennis number one is in Kenya, this is the second time she is visiting her education charities in Kilili village in Makueni which is 150 kilometers from Nairobi.
Please note she is waving hi…to the crowd,and not calling you to join her at the beach in Mombasa…..YOU WISH!! That goes to Kama and Odede….lol
Clay Onyango.
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Can Esther Arunga And Pastor Hellon Give Kenya Hope In 2012 Presidential Elections?
Arunga 1-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT9SBV5n-mc
Arunga 2-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T2uUOchof0
Arunga 3-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzfXh5hRtZo
Arunga 4-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nVTmXprIXY
Please click on the links above,listen carefully and give us your views.Do you think Esther Arunga and pastor Hellon would give Kenyans hope in 2012 Presidential elections.I personally like her energy and her openness, but will she survive to lead Kenyans after all these revelations on freemason church? Surely,Kenyan leaders need to be told off…..we really need change.
Clay Onyango.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Oburu Odingas Car Impounded Transporting Bhang…
NTV Kenya Assistant ministers’ car in bhang drama: Police in Rongo District have impounded a government vehicle that was ferrying a haul of bhang with a street value of 2 million shillings. The Toyota Landcruiser, belonging to the Ministry of Finance and attached to assistant minister Oburu Odinga, was ferrying the bhang to Nairobi.Click to watch….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zqKMYjI-XI
NTV NEWS
Butdoisay comment> Observe on board the vehicle was a goverment driver and an aid to the assistant minister who tried to bribe the cops with 100,000 shs.
HOMEWORK!!! Is the assistant minister involved?Were these 2 individuals involved jailed or apprehended? I think i know the answer……..
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Kenyan Parliament-Full Of Kenyan Prisoners On The Run!!!
The picture on the left is of a Kenyan parliament, and the picture on the right is of a Kenyan prison. I drown in my own blood when I see this picture of our parliament building because this is where the most corrupt Kenyans hide, infact the building should be turned into a prison when all the members of parliament are seated.They should be let to spend ONLY 2 nights as the Kenyan prisoners on the right ,most of whom are charged for petty crimes,like stealing a cow,stealing maize,and maybe even for not committing any crime.The big offenders go jail free while the petty offenders suffer. The big offenders can only be suspended from their duty,while the petty offenders are not even given a day for investigation before they are loaded on a truck and poured to jail.
In that building you are seeing, we have people who have made themselves filthy rich for stealing millions of shillings from their own ministries or organisations, they have stolen from the poor Kenyans you are seeing sleeping like pigs in a prison.I think even pigs sleep better.
Most of them are old, they have nothing to loose if the country drowns into a bloodshed,they have their children abroad and they have the money to enable them charter a flight and flee the country when things get hot.
In the prison you are seeing on the right, thats where we have an innocent Kenyan, who has been jailed because he could not agree with his boss and for that reason, the boss sent cops to pick him and jail him for selling cannabis,a crime they did not do, he will serve upto five years or more.This is one person that had a good vision and good ambitions, he has a wife and children, he was young, had a good home,but by the time he comes out, all that is gone.We can get a good leader from this prison than from the parliament building we are seeing…..
2012 is around the corner and yet our leaders are still squabbling…..how stupid will we be to re-elect them back?
Clay Onyango.
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Is Tithe A Must As In The bible…
My daughter has been texting me that I should remember to give tithe( ten percent of my entire income) to the church according to the bible, I did call her and we started a discussion about tithe. I need help from pastors Muirani,pastor Samson and pastor Tilla.I am not against giving tithe, but my argument was this.Nowadays, we have so many churches that have been started by individuals,and according to my daughters church, they receive a blank invoice every month so that they can fill in the 10 percent of their income, i argued that that was wrong.A tithe should be a voluntary thing and not a compulsory one.
I even gave an example of a man I knew in Kenya that contributed his entire property and assets to the church,because he was convinced that the more tithe you give, the more you receive.This man became so poor that he started to borrow money from friends.
I continued to argue,that you dont neccessarily have to give tithe but the help and contributions you offer to people who are suffering can also be termed as a tithe in the eyes of God,so you do not have to give tithe to the church while you have people whom you can help with that amount.
I have heard that many of these churches operated by individuals especially by the west Africans ,are just for business purposes,the tithe that is paid goes to their pockets and thats why many of them are so wealthy,while the tithe donors are poor.
I gave my daughter an example of how the whole world believes in the bible but there has never been any occassion where a goverment has sent an invoice to someones address to pay tithe,but they do send a tax paying invoice every year to be paid to the state.
Can someone please explain if tithe is compulsory,and if is ,to which church should it be paid,catholic,protestant,new life and so on?
Clay Onyango.
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Pictures From Butdoisay Archives-“GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN-RIP”
The late Kiboi and the late Hussein,this was the last time I saw the late Kiboi, we had really a nice time and conversation.He passed some days after this photo was taken.Hussein passed last year,2009.They are both gone but surely not forgotten.RIP.
Clay Onyango
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