Doodle for Google - let a Kenyan win this World Cup!

Kenyan girl enjoying football

Google announced today an exciting international initiative for young people called "Doodle 4 Google - I love football". The drawing competition invites aspiring young artists to design their own Google logo inspired by the theme "I love football". The winning Doodle will be displayed internationally on the Google homepage for a day the day of the World Cup Final - July 11, 2010. This will be the first ever international Doodle 4 Google competition, and it’s the first time Google is running this competition in Africa – in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.

The Doodle 4 Google competition is open to all children in the participating countries aged 4 to 17. Young artists are being asked to create an image around the love of football, regardless of which specific team they support.

In judging the Doodles, Google will be looking for designs that capture the spirit of football and fair play, show artistic merit and creativity, and express a love of the game in their title and supporting statement. The contest has two levels: national and international. The national winning Doodle will be displayed on the Google homepage of the relevant country for 24 hours in June.

The national winner will then automatically be entered into the global competition, in which the public from around the world will vote for their overall favorite Doodle.

National contest – Get your art featured in Kenya

Google employees from Google Africa will select the top 40 doodles and invite the finalists to an event in Nairobi, in which the national winner will be announced. The national winning doodle will be displayed on the Kenyan Google homepage for 24 hours.

Global contest – Get your art featured globally!





Children enjoying drawing a Doodle for Google

The national winner will automatically be entered in the global competition. The public from around the world will vote for their overall favorite doodle. The overall winning doodle will be displayed on the Google homepage of all the participating countries for 24 hours, in July 2010. The overall winner will win a holiday for 4 people to South Africa! The runner-up will win 2 VIP tickets to a Premiere League football match in the UK, including international flights, domestic transportation and accommodation in the city where the match takes place.

Let's make sure a Kenyan kid wins this global competition! For more info about the competition for Kenya please visit the Kenyan Doodle 4 Google site. Deadline for submissions is 3rd of May, 2010.Source URL: https://pussyhotnaked.blogspot.com/search/label/arts
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Flickr Kenyan Poet

I just discovered a cool new Flickr application called FlickrPoet. Just paste into the box some crazy piece of text - which could be some song lyrics, your most recent Tweet, or, like I did, some lines from a poem by Njeri Wangari (aka Kenyanpoet) - and the site will look for pictures in the Flickr archives that best match your text. I thought this could be very enlightening indeed, and here is what I got for the sentence "Her love, selfless, blows gently like a cool breeze.":




I got a few girls, a keyboard, and some Coca Cola. Not bad, but still confusing. But the nice thing is that the application will return different results every time you press the button. Just keep on pressing. Yes, this thing is transforming poems into photographs, and it has helped me in understanding some texts and poems in different ways. Pretty exciting, isn't it?

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LIFE iconic images from Kenya

Google has just put online the entire collection of photos from the legendary but now defunct LIFE magazine including some of the most iconic images of the 20th century. Millions of images have been scanned and made available on Google Image Search. Only a small percentage (3%) of these images have ever been published. The rest (97%) have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings and prints. The photos are available for free for personal and research purposes.

The good news for Kenyans and friends of Kenya is that the LIFE database contains some interesting historic images about Kenya as well. Let me give you some examples:



Natives loading the ships.
Location: Mombasa, Kenya
Date taken: July 1947
Photographer: Eliot Elisofon



Labor leader Thomas J. Mboya in front of his house.
Location: Nairobi, Kenya

Date taken: September 1959
Photographer: Eliot Elisofon



Kenyan Olympic team returning from Mexico with track star Naftali Temu being carried on shoulders.
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Date taken: November 1968
Photographer: George Silk



Mirella Ricciardi (R), internationally known photographer and author of the book "Vanishing Africa", preparing to photograph a Masai tribeswoman wearing traditional decorative beadwork.
Location: Kenya
Date taken: April 1971
Photographer: Carlo Bavagnoli
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Ayub Ogada re-discovered

Obama's win and an unexpected day off encouraged me to browse through my old music collection and look for some Luo music. And I am very glad I did, since I have now re-discovered Ayub Ogada's album En Mana Kuoyo (meaning "just sand"). Ogada's music is based on repetitious patterns plucked on the nyatiti, a stringed instrument reminiscent of the lyre, combined with his soft voice.

Ayub Ogada is a Luo and a traveller in body and mind. At the tender age of six, Ayub accompanied his father and mother when they took their musical act on tour, performing a duet playing Luo songs on the US college circuit. Ayub later went back to Kenya where he went into a Catholic school run by nuns and then an English boarding school. His education and his outstanding ability with percussion landed him a position with the French Cultural Centre in Nairobi, composing modern and traditional music for various productions. Such events proved formative. The wide-eyed youth with his images of America would nurture a respect for his own tradition but a hunger to develop it and nourish his own creativity. Like many of Kenya's youth, Ayub picked up on the flotsam of the global music tide: soul, jazz, Latin. Kenya's attractiveness to citizens of neighboring countries like Congo and Tanzania added spice to local flavours such as benga, a Luo-derived, guitar-based rhythm popular in the 70s and the 80s (in Luo, 'benga' means soft and beautiful). In 1979, Ayub co-founded the African Heritage Band, potently combining tradtional rhythms with vintage and modern instrumentation. Six years, two albums and a tour of Europe later, bolstered by a series of lucrative movie roles (he played a tacit but impressive Mau Mau heavy in the film 'Kitchen Toto'), Ayub decided to check whether the world really was his oyster. Ayub arrived in the UK in 1986 and was quickly snapped up by London's African music scene. For a time Ayub played in the promising but occasionally volatile rumba band Taxi Pata Pata, along with guitarist Zak Sikobe, who he grazed knees with back in Kenya. In 1993, Ayub recorded the album En Mana Kuoyo on Peter Gabriel's Real World label. His music has also been heard on the soundtrack of the 2000 release of 'I Dreamed of Africa' and the 2005 film 'The Constant Gardener'. He has also collaborated with Susheela Raman on several tracks on her 'Salt Rain' album, such as 'O Rama'. His piece, 'Kothbiro' appears in the soundtrack of the Méxican Film 'The Blue Room' based on the novel of George Simenon. Ayub Ogada's music was used in the soundtrack for Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman's BBC series Long Way Round. In addition, Ayub Ogada has collaborated with the Afro Celt Sound System on their first and fourth releases. In 2005, Ayub performed at the Live 8 concert, Eden Project as the opening act performing on a large replica of an historic Egyptian lyre. Ayub Ogada moved back to Kenya in 2007.

On the CD I just re-discovered, En Mana Kuoyo, Ayub sings gentle, almost hypnotic, and yet ultimately relaxed melodies concerning home, cattle herding, his instrument, the weather, and injustice. The music is spacious and at the same time stimulating. A brilliant CD, and I am looking forward to hearing more from him.

So as Kenyans wait for a tourism boost after Obama's election victory , we may as well expect some increased interest in Kenya's interesting culture and music, and I hope Ayub Ogada will now be (re-) discovered by many more people.

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Kuleya mimba si kazi

I like kanga's. Not only because it is a unifying piece of cloth as they are being worn throughout Kenya as skirts, shawls, baby carriers, etc., but also because they often have these interesting Swahili sayings printed on them. Some classic ones include the following:

• Kuleya mimba si kazi: Kazi ni kuleya mwana.
• Mtaka yote hukosa yote.
• Njia mwongo fupi.
Although kanga's have been in existence since the middle of the 19th century, and Swahili sayings have been added to the design since the beginning of the 20th century, I feel that some of these messages seem even more relevant in our Kenya of today than ever before. Take for example:
• Acha kukuna makovu ya mende. (in the amnesty or justice debate)
  
• Adui mpende. (decaying political parties, new alliances being formed)
• Shemeji zima taa. (because the electricity bills are too high to leave the lights on anyway)
And others are - unfortunately, after so many years - still not very relevant in Kenya:

• Akili ni mali.
• Amani, Upendo, Umoja.
• Baada ya dhiki, faraja.
And you, do you have a favorite Kanga saying? Or a funny one you have come across?
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Lamu Cultural Festival

Mark your calendars: 28-30 November 2008





Lamu Old Town is a unique and rare historical living heritage with more than 700 years of continuous settlement. In 2001, it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Since then the Lamu Cultural Promotion Centre, a community based group, has been organizing an annual cultural festival to promote and preserve the unique Swahili heritage of the Lamu Archipelago.
The trade winds of the Indian Ocean have been bringing visitors from the world to the East African coast for over a thousand years. The local people of Lamu have a long established tradition of welcoming travelers. In the same spirit, the Lamu Cultural Promotion Group bids you a warm ‘Karibu’ to this year’s Lamu Cultural Festival to experience hospitality that has remained unchanged over the centuries.


The three day festival showcases traditional dances, displays of handicraft and competitions on water and land (Swahili poetry, donkey races, dhow races), and musical performances from both local and visiting artists sharing a united heritage. This year’s programme will feature the Arab-Andalusian group ‘Musica Antigua – Eduardo Paniagua’ from Spain as well as popular Taarab musicians from Zanzibar. The Spanish group, led by the award winning conductor, Eduardo Paniagua, specializes in interpreting medieval Arabic Andalusian music and play the lute, the hurdy-gurdy, the tromba marina, flute, organ and the darbuga (drum). There will also be displays of traditional handicraft, henna painting, Swahili food and a Swahili bridal ceremony. Lamu Fort will host an informative exhibition on the history and origin of ‘Swahili Doors’. National Museums of Kenya and the Research Institute of Swahili Studies of Eastern Africa will be organizing a workshop on the Lamu politician/poet (1760 – 1830) Zahidi Mngumi, which will culminate with the presentation of copies of manuscripts to Lamu Museum from the State Museums of Berlin and Hamburg. Lamu Museum will be offering guided visit to Takwa Ruins on Manda Island on Sunday morning. Following the introduction of film shows at last year’s Festival, a series of films are scheduled once again in Mkunguni square on Sunday evening.
Lamu offers accommodation to suit all pockets. Transport by road to Lamu is safe. Public transport from Mombasa leaves daily at 7, 10 and 11am (Tawakal Bus, Tel. Mombasa 041 222975). The journey from Mombasa to Mokowe on the mainland takes six hours, followed by a half an hour boat ride to Lamu Island. 


Other attractions include:
• Lamu Museum, exhibiting Swahili culture and the mainland’s non-Swahili groups
  
• Lamu Fort, dating back to 1821, having been built by the Sultan of Oman shortly after Lamu’s victory over Pate and Mombasa in the battle of Shela
  
• German Post Office Museum
  
• Swahili House Museum
  
• Takwa National Monument on Manda Island (a settlement dating back to AD 1500, with ruins of a Great Mosque and a pillar tomb)
  
• Ruins of Shanga, an 8^th century Swahili settlement, on Pate Island, containing remains of the coral walls of 160 houses, two palaces, three mosques and hundreds of tombs
  
• The early Swahili settlement of Pate, once a power in the region
  
• Numerous sites and monuments that showcase Swahili civilization at its height in the 15^th century
  
• Donkey sanctuary for the old beasts of burden
  
• The dhow making village of Matondoni
  
Through the Festival, the people of Lamu continue to share their heritage, both tangible and intangible with the wider world, promoting dialogue and understanding among pepoles and culture while at the same time playing an important role in promoting sustainable cultural tourism.


A wonderful opportunity to experience the beauty and traditions of this mystical, exotic and serene archipelago!
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Storymoja inspirational writing workshop

Storymoja is organizing a workshop for writers of inspirational material, however broadly this can be defined. We know there are many of you with powerful, life-changing experiences to share, but may need the structure and know-how we can provide to get the story down. These stories must be presented in an attractive, informative, clear and well-edited manner so that even those with a bias against books, but are hungry for the content, can read them.Source URL: https://pussyhotnaked.blogspot.com/search/label/arts
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Uaso Nyrobi

Muthoni - a Nairobi born and raised singer-songwriter and social entrepreneur -  sings about Nairobi in her wonderful new reggae-soul-jazz hit Cool Waters. Indeed, in 1899, Mile 327 of the East African Railway was established on a patch of papyrus bog known as Uaso Nyrobi (Maasai for ‘place of cold waters’), the last area of flat land where the engineers camped to figure out their ascent up the eastern shoulder of the Great Rift Valley. 

Over the years, Nairobi has been referred to by different nicknames, including the following:
• Nairobi
• Nyrobi (referring to the Maasai word mentioned above)
• City in the Sun
• Green City in the Sun
• Safari Capital of the World
• Nairobbery (referring to the insecurity situation in Nairobi)
Is this list complete or do you know any other names for Nairobi? And which is your favourite one?
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Affordable Art Market

Affordable Art Market, every last Saturday of the month at RaMoMa, 10 AM - 4 PM
Meet and buy artwork directly from the artist.
Artworks on sale for amounts not exceeding KSh 10,000
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This is Kenya

Mark your calendars: 16-20 July and 23, 24, 26, 27 July

This is Kenya - an original comedy by: Churchill, a Hearstrings Kenya production
Alliance Francaise auditorium, Nairobi - Entry: 500 KShs
Weekdays: 6.30 PM, Week-end: 3 & 6 PM

A rude but mirthful awakening, through the eyes of Nyake, a man who died in 1900. Strangely he wakes up 100 years later and is shocked to see everything from hawking, elections, coalitions, corruption, carjacking, robberies, poverty, etc etc..., all that he could have lived to see and do. In short Nyake says stop hoping, but amid laughter, the moral of the comedy is that there is still a chance to change.
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Images of Kenya - Film Screenings

Mark you calendars: Tuesday 9 September 2008 - Thursday 11 September 2008, 6 PM, Goethe-Institut, Nairobi
This is the 7th edition already of Images of Kenya, an annual showcase for documentary films produced in Kenya. It shows films covering a cross section of Kenya’s cultural and tourism potential, held by the Goethe-Institut Nairobi in conjunction with the Department of Film Services in the Ministry of Information and Communications. One day of the screenings is dedicated to the final works of the film classes at the Kenya Institute of Mass Communication (KIMC), displaying the creative talent of young Kenyan filmmakers.Source URL: https://pussyhotnaked.blogspot.com/search/label/arts
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