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		<title>San Diego safari</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/07/14/san-diego-safari</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cracked up this morning when I heard on the news that San Diego Zoo&#8217;s &#8220;Wild Animal Park&#8221; is going to change its name to the San Diego Zoo &#8220;Safari Park.&#8221; It&#8217;s hilarious to me because in Swahili a &#8220;safari&#8221; is a journey; sure, driving around looking at animals is technically a journey, but really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aterere in Star Wars</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/05/07/aterere-in-starwars</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 14:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a bit of funny trivia for you: what language is the funny co-pilot speaking in this Star Wars clip? Surprise!! It&#8217;s Kikuyu, a language spoken in Kenya. I don&#8217;t understand what he&#8217;s saying, but after living in Kenya for a few years you can eventually distinguish between lots of languages&#8230; he apparently says something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chanting in a Dead Language</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2010/02/11/chanting-in-a-dead-language</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s some Ethiopian Orthodox holiday going on right now. Nobody&#8217;s explained it to me, but most of my Ethiopian colleagues have sworn off milk and meat until April, and there&#8217;s a man chanting over a loudspeaker in some church next to ILRI&#8217;s campus for hours at a time. I asked someone at lunch today what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Niko Poa</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/10/14/niko-poa</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/10/14/niko-poa#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am realizing there is a problem with my Swahili: it&#8217;s too cool. Niko juu tu sana (I&#8217;m just too high up). It&#8217;s probably something that most Kenyan youths experience when talking to parents, teachers, or other adults in their lives. When I was living in Tala my limited interactions with adults were usually conducted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alan the tribalist</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/08/11/alan-the-tribalist</link>
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		<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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		<title>Tala Cracks Me Up</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/07/14/tala-cracks-me-up</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/07/14/tala-cracks-me-up#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my buddies works in a photo studio in Tala&#8217;s market. I hang out there after work sometimes and all sorts of people come by for various reasons, mostly to get pictures taken. Crazy people, drunk people, desperate people, etc. A few weeks ago someone asked if they could take a picture with me. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Being White In Tala</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/07/11/being-white-in-tala</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/07/11/being-white-in-tala#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being white in Nairobi is mostly harmless and can be pretty funny, but being white in Tala is annoying. There are a few things that really annoy me about being non-black in Tala. It&#8217;s not that Tala is particularly a bad place; I assume you&#8217;d have the same experience if you traveled to a rural [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome To My World (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/07/08/welcome-to-my-world-part-2</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/07/08/welcome-to-my-world-part-2#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:47:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[matatu]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[4377 I posted a few days ago about my life in Tala. The main purpose of that was to get some pictures of my surroundings up online, but I ended up writing a lot about life in Tala. I&#8217;ve posted at least one &#8220;a day in the life&#8221; entries in the past, but this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Music From East Africa&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/06/28/more-music-from-east-africa</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/06/28/more-music-from-east-africa#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 18:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted about music in Kenya several times&#8230; There&#8217;s a lot of talent in Kenya, guys! East Africa in general has such a diverse range of music. Just hop in a matatu in Nairobi and you&#8217;ll hear some crazy beats booming. These two artists are a bit old, so most Kenyans have known them for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Crappy Tala-Kangundo Road</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/06/22/the-crappy-tala-kangundo-road</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/06/22/the-crappy-tala-kangundo-road#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tala-Kangundo highway from Nairobi is terrible. It seems as if the road is in a constant state of decline. I find myself often commenting to strangers, &#8220;Hii bara bara ni mbaya sana&#8221; (&#8220;this road is very bad&#8221;), it&#8217;s a great ice breaker. We laugh and speculate about whether someone will tengeneza (&#8220;repair&#8221;) it any [...]]]></description>
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