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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>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>
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		<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>Being White In Tala</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/07/11/being-white-in-tala</link>
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		<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>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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		<title>Lawn Mowing in Kenya</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/06/11/lawn-mowing-in-kenya</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 19:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, there is no such thing as &#8220;lawn mowing&#8221; in Kenya (gotcha!). Second, unless you&#8217;re the the President of Kenya or the US Ambassador (they live in mansions with big lawns), there aren&#8217;t even any lawns to speak of. That&#8217;s not to say we don&#8217;t have grass. My goodness, there is grass for days and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Hunting&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/05/29/job-hunting</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/05/29/job-hunting#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 19:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The college where I work runs a small Internet café, and people from Tala and the surrounding areas come to browse the net. I always see people checking their e-mail, browsing Facebook, etc, but about once a month I see someone applying for military contracting jobs with companies like Blackwater and KBR. I don&#8217;t know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jina Langu</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/03/13/jina-langu</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/03/13/jina-langu#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://alaninkenya.org/?p=344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My name is &#8220;Alan,&#8221; and if you don&#8217;t know my name, please just say, &#8220;Hi!&#8221; or any of the other greetings you use on your fellow Kenyans. Jina langu si &#8220;British&#8221; or &#8220;mzungu.&#8221; I don&#8217;t know what your parents told you, but I don&#8217;t think white people like being called either of those names. In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanging Out With The Mamas</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/01/27/hanging-out-with-the-mamas</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2009/01/27/hanging-out-with-the-mamas#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a funny experience in the market today: after work I went to buy some avocados and fresh corn for dinner. I found a group of mamas sitting near some vegetables so I greeted them and told them what I wanted. Just then it started raining so they invited me under their small shelter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Big, Bad Coca Cola Man</title>
		<link>http://alaninkenya.org/2008/11/20/the-big-bad-coca-cola-man</link>
		<comments>http://alaninkenya.org/2008/11/20/the-big-bad-coca-cola-man#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you own a restaurant or store and you&#8217;re planning to sell cold drinks, Coca Cola will give you a free refrigerator. I guess it&#8217;s a good deal but there&#8217;s one condition: you can only stock Coca Cola products in the fridge. Sure, Coca Cola&#8217;s product line includes something for everyone (even water, Dasani!), but [...]]]></description>
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