Hacking on Bioruby
Last week the Regional Student Group of Eastern Africa brought fifteen biologists, bioinformaticians, and computer scientists to ILRI for a three-day hackathon. Students and professionals from Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda worked in teams to augment Bioruby (a bioinformatics library for the Ruby programming language) with a wrapper for BepiPred, a tool which predicts the location [...]
Celebrating the East African Community
I saw this Swahili kanga on Google the other day, a celebration of the East African Community: Umoja ni nguvu, utengano ni udhaifu The phrase is some deep Tanzanian Swahili, but I cracked the code with a little dictionary magic: “Unity is strength, separation is weakness.”
Westlands: My Final Answer?
I was in Tanzania for a few days over the Easter holiday. I always figure, living in Kenya, it’s the closest I can get to being in San Diego and hopping over the border to Mexico to eat a few tacos. It’s only a 5 hour bus ride to the decently-sized town of Arusha, and [...]
Jua Cali – Niimbie (Sing For Me)
A great song by one of Kenya’s better-known artists, Jua Cali. I’m not sure why I never heard it until now because it’s been out since late 2008. Anyways, it’s Jua Cali and Enika (apparently she’s from Tanzania). It’s a nice break from all the “I’m a thug” and “get money and bitches” music that [...]
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