"So, what do you do for a living?" We have all been asked this question, and often by people we do not know very well. Some people are able to answer it without a second thought. Others have to choose their words carefully because they know their answer is likely to be met … [Read more...]

The British Red Cross has launched an emergency appeal in response to the widespread flooding caused by a massive earthquake off the coast of Sumatra. It is estimated that more than 22,000 people have died, thousands are missing and millions are homeless as a result of the … [Read more...]

Apologies to the non-swahili speakers , hopefully as you read on the title of this post shall make sense... I was at a party and I was talking to a Hungarian-German-Canadian man (I thought I was the only one with a confused sense of national identity!) and he mentioned a new … [Read more...]

While most of the world leaders have been congratulating Dubya on his victory I am happy to say our Vice President - Hon. Moody Awori has spoken out and said what most of us have been thinking: I am a little bit apprehensive because the first term of Bush, he had come in as a … [Read more...]

Having read Mental Acrobatics take on what he thought was the best solution for a Kenyan asylum seeker in the UK I feel the need to respond. The Guardian wrote about Kamwaura Nyogothi's story and this was Mental Acrobatics’ response: Although Kenya is not a … [Read more...]