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		<title>Avatar is way cool</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/06/28/avatar-is-way-cool</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 20:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m watching Avatar. I know, I&#8217;m probably the only one in the world who hasn&#8217;t seen it yet. It&#8217;s a pretty sweet movie, but it&#8217;s really hard to miss the socio-political commentary. Right off the bat, the main character is extremely daft; is that how the rest of the world sees Americans? You&#8217;d have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mzungu!</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/06/22/mzungu</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s something I&#8217;ve been battling with since I came to Kenya in 2007. This evening I was walking through Uthiru after work and some kids saw me and shouted, &#8220;Mzungu!&#8221; You&#8217;d think I&#8217;d be used it by now but alas, even after two years of living in Tala and hearing kids shout that and more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cops get a free ride</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/06/14/cops-get-a-free-ride</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t think of any reason why a police officer in Kenya should get a free ride in a matatu. As far as I know there&#8217;s no law that says, &#8220;If you see a cop walking, give him a ride.&#8221; It happens all the time, though: some cop walking on the side of the road [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fifty three dollars</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/05/30/fifty-three-dollars</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 20:55:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The monthly rent for my two-bedroom flat in Westlands is 45,000 Kenyan shillings (600 US dollars) per month. Taking into account that the three-bedroom flats cost a considerable amount more, and that everyone&#8217;s rental agreements hike their rent by 10% annually, it&#8217;s safe to say that the average rent is around 60,000 shillings per month [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sita Sings the Blues</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/05/28/sita-sings-the-blues</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 21:17:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Has anyone seen the movie Sita Sings the Blues? It&#8217;s an animated full-length movie which has some interesting ideas behind it; a note from the artist on the official website: I hereby give Sita Sings the Blues to you. Like all culture, it belongs to you already, but I am making it explicit with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Westlands: My Final Answer?</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/04/08/westlands-my-final-answer</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in Tanzania for a few days over the Easter holiday. I always figure, living in Kenya, it&#8217;s the closest I can get to being in San Diego and hopping over the border to Mexico to eat a few tacos. It&#8217;s only a 5 hour bus ride to the decently-sized town of Arusha, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>International Women&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/03/08/international-womens-day</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/03/08/international-womens-day#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was International Women&#8217;s Day and ILRI held a few events to honor women in science. In addition to listening to speeches and drinking coffee, seventy girls from local high schools came to tour the labs and talk to our female scientists. In the afternoon we watched a few videos, one of which, by writer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No, I don&#8217;t want a f*cking taxi</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/08/22/no-i-dont-want-a-fcking-taxi</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/08/22/no-i-dont-want-a-fcking-taxi#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t want to go see the lions in Masai Mara. And while we&#8217;re at it, no, you can&#8217;t shine my sandals. I&#8217;ve said it before and I can&#8217;t reiterate it enough, being white in Nairobi is annoying. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s wrong with white people in Kenya, they&#8217;re either too rich or too lazy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>White people in Nairobi</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/08/16/white-people-in-nairobi</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s one thing to be white living in a rural area, but it&#8217;s another thing to be white and live in a rich suburb of Nairobi. I spent the last nearly two years living in Tala, where I was one of the only white people. It wasn&#8217;t hard for me to make myself at home, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan the tribalist</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/08/11/alan-the-tribalist</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/08/11/alan-the-tribalist#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tribalism is a touchy subject in Kenya; I don&#8217;t even think it&#8217;s politically correct to use the word &#8220;tribe&#8221; anymore. Besides the fact that it&#8217;s a bit condescending from an American English connotation, I think we&#8217;re supposed to use other words like &#8220;ethnic groups&#8221; or &#8220;communities&#8221; instead. In Kenya it ranges from petty nepotism to [...]]]></description>
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