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Diary 18 – My heart bleeds for my beloved country

By BILLY OWINO

This will be long so brace yourself! As I write this, I have tears welling in my eyes once more. I thought I was through with that until I reported back to the office today after a 3 weeks break. I live and work in Khartoum, Sudan and every single person […]

Diary 17 – I no longer think my government listens to me

By Allan Kirui

I have been reading your blog and other and I must admit, like many others, it is a much better source of information than the actual news pages! Thank you!!

Personally, I was too young (or perhaps also too naïve) in the Moi era to know whether he rigged himself in, […]

Diary 16 – Government of National Unity

Written by Ben Kiilu (aka BigBen)

Kibaki, the man who many believe is illegally in office as the president of Kenya has offered to form a government of national unity. Not a surprising turn of events. Many will urgue; yes, there goes a true leader, trying to find a solution to save our motherland. While […]

3 posts I should have written but I didn’t….

Number 1, Ushahidi is already getting good traffic since it’s launch and already gone through a number of updates. Hash, has put up a great post highlighting the changes. Keep spreading the word and encouraging people to submit stories.

Number 2, a number of people responded to my rant about Kibaki’s appointment of a new […]

Diary 15 – I cannot say “Happy New Year”

By Kui

I have never found it so hard to wrap my mind around the phrase ‘Happy New Year’ before. The sun is shining outside my window. I am on my way back to the rest of my life overseas. I am glad to be alive. But somehow, in another locality, the locality where […]

Diary 13 – Feeling unwanted in my own country

By Kenneth Karanja

Let me start on Dec. 24, 2007. My friends and I met to finalize on our investment plan for Kenya. We were planning to buy shares and build some hostels. Loans were to be taken, several hundred thousand. We were all ecstatic that the economic growth in Kenya would allow us to […]

Ushahidi.com

Last week, in between nightmares about where my country was going, I was dreaming of a Google Mashup to document incidents of violence, looting etc. that have occurred during the post-election crisis.

Today, Ushahidi is born.

The website was literally put together in 2 days and is a testament to the best of […]

Diary 12 – Reach out!

By Kamau

Going through this whole nightmare has brought up some very raw emotions in me. Rage at the politicians, deep sorrow for the victims and burning anger at the thugs. However it is some of my friends who have evoked that sense of disbelief in me. I’m talking of people that we went to […]