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Sita Sings the Blues

By Alan on May 28, 2010

Has anyone seen the movie Sita Sings the Blues? It’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 [...]

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Posted in Miscellaneous, Rants | Tagged Creative Commons, FLOSS, Free, Freedom, GPL, Linux, Movies, Open Source, Rants, Sita Sings the Blues, technology | Leave a response

No, I don’t want a f*cking taxi

By Alan on August 22, 2009

I don’t want to go see the lions in Masai Mara. And while we’re at it, no, you can’t shine my sandals. I’ve said it before and I can’t reiterate it enough, being white in Nairobi is annoying. I don’t know what’s wrong with white people in Kenya, they’re either too rich or too lazy [...]

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Posted in Kenya, Rants | Tagged funny, Kenya, Nairobi, Rants, Swahili, Taxi, White | 2 Responses

White people in Nairobi

By Alan on August 16, 2009

It’s one thing to be white living in a rural area, but it’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’t hard for me to make myself at home, [...]

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Posted in Kenya, Rants | Tagged funny, Kenya, Mzungu, Nairobi, Rants, sheng, Swahili, Wazungu, White | 5 Responses

Being White In Tala

By Alan on July 11, 2009

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’s not that Tala is particularly a bad place; I assume you’d have the same experience if you traveled to a rural [...]

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Posted in Kenya, Rants | Tagged Kenya, Language, Mzungu, Rants, Swahili, Tala, Tala Girls | 7 Responses

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