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Important Tips on Shipping Goods from the US to Kenya

As you are aware that many Kenyan in the US send things to their loved ones back home? Kenyans would love to ship more but the charges by the well established means like DHL, FedEx and UPS are way too high, not to men…

Dec 11, 2015
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TRHOK Episode 83 Recap: Hawana Huruma kwa humanity & Turu and Njugush the Maiti ones

In May of this year, I wrote an article for Mwakilishi called “10 Reasons Why I Love The Show The Real Househelps of Kawangware”. Needless to say, I still love this show, and would like to create a space here to t…

Dec 4, 2015
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Open Letter to President Uhuru Kenyatta: Reconstitute Your Government

There is little denying that President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Jubilee coalition have hemorrhaged much of the goodwill and faith that Kenyans placed on them by electing them on March 4 2013; this notwithstanding Presid…

Nov 18, 2015
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Drawing The Line on Corruption in Kenya: Give Amnesty to Tenderpreneurs, Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

In response to the article titled “How Kenyas Top Investors Make Billions at NSE”, someone on the site Mwakilishi made the following comment: “Everyone is guilty in Kenya especially the prominent and who is in K…

Nov 6, 2015
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Poor Service at the Kenyan UN Mission in New York

While traveling in New York recently, I visited Kenya mission to the UN to renew my  passport. The lady at the reception, who works alone there, was extremely  rude to me but very kind to foreigners who went to pick u…

Oct 22, 2015
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Why I Chased My Wife To Her Louisiana Shagz Today

You see, this chic amenizoea tu sana. Shes one of this chics who after arriving here, decided to do her nursing ka-degree, then she bought her african-thutha a lexus...thats when all hell broke loose in my home. Wait…

Oct 20, 2015
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The Best Side Business Idea for the Kenyan Nursing Community in USA

Even without hard statistics it’s safe to say that a very significant percentage of Kenyans living in USA work in the healthcare industry. In Kansas City Metro area for instance, that number is hovering around 90% o…

Oct 16, 2015
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Do We Need All That, Really?

Sometimes we put a lot of effort reading for a test; taking two days off our daily schedules and the professor brings a ten-question quiz on the basics you could have studied in less than an hour. At other times, you…

Oct 10, 2015
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On our First day to Kenya: A Contest-Winning Essay by a Kenyan-American Girl in Acworth, Georgia

Njeri, an 8-year-old Kenyan-American girl from Acworth, Georgia and currently in 3rd Grade, recently won a children’s writing contest in the Cobb County school district. Njeri’s essay, titled “On our First day t…

Oct 6, 2015
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Kusaidiana: The Sins of the Diaspora Exposed

“Who are you talking to?” She busted into the room unannounced. This was not to happen. Ever. Not when Mweru was on a Skype Call with his wife and children who were excited to “see” their father live from Kamb…

Oct 5, 2015
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Calling Home

Whenever I call Kenya to talk to my mom, I have to make sure that I have enough time to talk.  The conversation usually starts with the normal pleasantries. After that, my mom will say do you remember your guka (grand…

Sep 27, 2015
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Working in a Group Home in the US: A Year Later

Walking into a group home and spending more than eighty hours working with developmentally disabled people and sometimes old men was not what I signed up for when I hopped into a plane to come to this new land yet cer…

Sep 15, 2015
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Make it Easier for Kenyans in Diaspora to Invest in the Country

I visited Waterloo on the suburbs of Brussels where the most celebrated Western emperor Napoleon Bonaparte met his final defeat at the hands of the Seventh European coalition. A great and brilliant military commander…

Sep 15, 2015
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Why Men in the West Should Re-Think Marriage or Shun it Altogether

On July 30 this year, in Wiesenhugel, Germany, a Kenyan man, Nelson Njunge stabbed his wife, Belinda Njunge, a mom of two numerous times until she died. The two had been living together as a couple and had even starte…

Aug 31, 2015
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Me, Go Back to Kenya? Hell No!

I will say this as bluntly as possible, wenye wivu wajinyonge! I have read and spoken to guys who have gone back and the horror stories I hear are nothing to take to the bank. Stay with me. Before I got myself the vis…

Aug 31, 2015
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Advice for Immigrant Children in the US Headed to College

On your way to college? Are you prepared? The road ahead is exciting, here are a few tips in this two-part series. Part 1. Dream bigger than your parents, Most of our parents worked in the first job or sector that fel…

Jul 30, 2015
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Kenyans in the Diaspora, Please Let Us Buy Life Insurance Policies

As an insurance agent I help people enroll in Obamacare and Life insurance policies at no charge. I’ve been talking to a lot of people lately about buying life insurance after a community leader in Dallas, TX took m…

Jul 29, 2015
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Growing Prevalence of Mental Illness in Kenya and the Diaspora

Lately, there has been increased coverage of mental health issues by the media worldwide.  This is owing to the rising prevalence of cases of mental illness all over the world. Despite widespread media coverage, there…

Jul 5, 2015
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And You Thought All Kenyans Were Alike: Stereotypes Kenyans Have of One Another

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Jun 20, 2015
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Inspiring Diaspora Story: My Journey to Doctor in Pharmacy

What God has started, he is faithful enough to finish, He finished my Pharmacy Journey!! To all class of 2015 graduates, congratulations. Whether it’s a high school graduation or a doctorate graduation, you have mad…

Jun 7, 2015
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