The world’s oldest profession is changing and finding strange new bedfellows along the Kenyan Coast.
By Josaya Wasonga
Sex tourism is a monster with many heads, a dragon that cannot be slain in one fell swoop. Tonight is not my night. The clubs are empty. I guess it’s because it’s a Thursday. I’m headed to a local joint that is a favourite amongst Diani residents. My guide, Ali, swears that Beach Road, Ukunda is a tourism hot spot because it’s chock-a-block with lodges, boutiques, cottages, nightspots… you name it – from chic to downright cheap and nasty, all meant to be tourist magnets.
Read more on Sexual healing on the Kenyan Coast – Destination Magazine November 2010…
There is no shortage of ideas and innovations in the technology and new media sectors.
What is in fact lacking is funding to help techpreneurs take their ideas to market, start-ups to upscale their ventures and angel investors to take those already in business to the next level. Bombarded with new ideas on a daily basis and with queries on what it is doing to help assist budding application developers and ICT entrepreneurs, the Kenya ICT Board is trying to match innovators with financiers. Through its Tandaa Kenya initiative, it recently organised a forum where budding techpreneurs pitched their ideas to a panel of venture capitalists.
Read more on Can you invest in these techpreneurs? (Business Post November 2010)…
One of Kenya’s best loved anchors opens up about success, criticism, motherhood and her new agenda for Kenya’s youth. By Carol Odero
She must be used to hearing this but I thought she would be taller. Julie Gichuru is diminutive. When she walks in, her high heels disappear into the hem of her jeans, pooling under her feet and grazing the floor. She looks all of 21 and her thick hair, aided by extensions because she cut it off a few years back, falls down her back. She is so chirpy and perky it’s contagious. Do not be fooled. She has been known to bite.
Read more on Julie Gichuru – A Woman for all Seasons (True Love November 2010)…
She is charming, feisty, bubbly, and is not bothered by her physique for she believes in herself. In this piece, she tells Rose Odengo what makes her appreciate life.
She is probably the face, and the body of the Kenyan woman: Well endowed, Plus Size, beautiful, radiant and affable.
Read more on Kalekye Mumo – Kiss FM’s Exuberant Radio Presenter (Passion Magazine November 2010)…
If you think you have Ciku Muiruri all figured out, think again – there is so much more to her than meets the eye. Judy Mumo found out.
For a person whose reputation as a hard-nosed man-hater is legendary, Ciku Muiruri – she who “busts” cheating partners on live radio – offers startlingly contradictory wisdom.
Read more on Ciku Muiruri Busting the Myths – Class 105 FM Busted Show Presenter (True Love April 2010)…
