So when I decide, when I decide, all I can tell you is this, come baby come...wazi Miguna and the artist for the remix made my evening. This should boom in the club..
@Stunnrnewlimits, i think all the right credits have been shown in the video as expected,and link to the musics author provided.Unless you want to be paid,which then means you have to copyright and remove your work from the internet
After the sucess of the viral Bonoko Video, now comes the Esther Mwende - Fake Pastor lampoon.
The video posted on YouTube by a Rberyk this week. It a naraton of Esther MWende's NTV interview when the story on "fake miracles" was unveiled.
Actor Sherman Hemsley was found dead in his El Paso, Texas home on Tuesday. The cause of death is pending. He is known as George Jefferson the lead man in the TV sitcom The Jeffersons - one of the longest running and most successful sitcoms. The Philadelphia-born Hemsley, who police said late Tuesday died at his home in El Paso, Texas, at age 74, first played George Jefferson on the CBS show “All in the Family” before he was spun off onto “The Jeffersons.” The sitcom ran for 11 seasons from 1975 to 1985. With the gospel-style theme song of “Movin’ On Up,” the hit show depicted the wealthy former neighbors of Archie and Edith Bunker in Queens as they made their way on New York’s Upper East Side. Hemsley and the Jeffersons (Isabel Sanford played his wife) often dealt with contemporary issues of racism, but more frequently reveled in the sitcom archetype of a short-tempered, opinionated patriarch trying, often unsuccessfully, to control his family. Here are some messages and condolences from personalities and celebrities all over the world.
The Olympics are here! But when it comes to running in high heels, Russian women have mastered the art and have been engaging in the- for lack of a better word- " heel-lympics"
The Olympics are just about to begin in London. With less than 10 days to go, could President Obama be indicating what the world is to expect from Kenya since he traces his roots to Kenya?
Have a running day!!!!
Obama running to greet his supporters in Austin Texas
US President Barack Obama runs with the family's new six-month old Portuguese water dog Bo on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, on April 14, 2009.
OUTGOING US AMBASSADOR JONATHAN SCOTT
GRATION DEEP CONNECTION TO KENYA…
His parents
and the parents of his wife Judy came to Kenya in the 1950’s as
missionaries. Scott Gration is a man with a long history of engagement with Kenya.
Together with
his wife, they attended the RVASchool (RiftValleyAcademy)
before heading out of the country. That is why, when USA was marking her independence
anniversary on July 4th 2012, the RVA band was invited to play at
the ambassador’s residence. A show of how the band has a special place in the
heart of the ambassador.
the prestigious RVA in Kijabe
He returned
to Kenya in the 1980s to
help train Kenya
Air Force fighter pilots before returning as an ambassador last year, 2011.
statement from the embassy website- Ambassador Scott Gration left Kenya on July 23rd. During the week of July 30th, Mr. Isiah Parnell will assume the responsibilities of Deputy Chief of Mission and Charge’ d’Affaires ad interim
Until the arrival of Mr. Parnell, Mr. Eric Whitaker will serve as Charge’ d’Affaires ad interim
-but why
did he offer his resignation? That is the question many readers keep on asking,
while many writers and journalists keep on trying to solve the puzzle…one Molly
Redden writes on allafrica.com…
Nairobi — When U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Scott Gration resigned his position early this morning, he said in an emailed statement, "differences with Washington regarding my leadership style and certain priorities lead me to believe that it's now time to leave."
That's putting it gently. A former State Department official with a long service record in the Africa bureau and a former ambassador told me that Gration's tenure in Kenya was marked by constant friction with his superiors and a refusal to abide by State Department protocol and security measures. For instance, in a move that upset officials in the Department of Defense and White House, Gration complicated U.S. diplomacy to Somalia by demanding oversight of the Somalia Embassy's actions. And because Gration insisted on using his personal computer to conduct State Department business, he set up an office in one of the few places in Embassy Nairobi authorized for an unsecured network--a bathroom.
It's a strange ending for someone who entered the national stage as one of the first big foreign policy names to endorse Obama, and later became a close friend of the president's. When Obama entered office, Gration had his choice of high-level positions--and, reportedly, the commander-in-chief's ear. Rumors placed Gration's aspirations high in a second-term Obama administration--as Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, even.
Gration, the son of missionaries, spent much of his childhood in Kenya and speaks fluent Swahili. He joined the Air Force in 1974, where he became an F-16 fighter pilot instructor before retiring in 2006. That year, he traveled Africa extensively with a senator, Barack Obama, who so awed Gration that the longtime Republican became a Democrat. (Writing for The New Yorker in 2008, Nicholas Lemann called Gration "The most mystical believer in Obamaism whom I met." He was also known to compare the senator to Nelson Mandela.) Gration endorsed Obama--he was one of the campaign's earliest, most high-profile foreign policy 'gets'--and became a national security adviser to his 2008 presidential campaign, as well as one of its most enthusiastic surrogates. After the election, speculation saw Gration in a number of impressive roles, like head of NASA. In March of 2009, Obama named him Special Envoy to Sudan.
Gration's appointment was greeted with widespread optimism that Obama was getting tough on Sudan. But in that role, Gration was regarded by many to have brought an incredibly naïve approach to negotiations. Of the genocidal regime operating out of Khartoum, he infamously told the Washington Post, "We've got to think about giving out cookies. Kids, countries--they react to gold stars, smiley faces, handshakes, agreements, talk, engagement." Obama nominated Gration as ambassador to Kenya in February 2011, ending his tenure as special envoy.
Gration's transition to Kenya was stormy, to say the least. After his arrival there, the Nairobi Embassy became the subject of an investigation by the Office of the Inspector General for the U.S. State Department. A scathing OIG report is due out later this summer. Individuals familiar with the report called it "catastrophic," a "toxic" assessment of Gration's leadership.
Over the objections of State Department officials, Gration insisted on doing business on his personal laptop and through his Gmail account, according to the former officer. This put classified information about the U.S.'s operations in East Africa at a higher risk for exposure--consider an incident in June 2011, when hackers in China broke into numerous Gmail accounts belonging to senior U.S. officials. (China, for what it's worth, has an enormous presence in East Africa.) His refusal to use diplomatic cables to communicate also cut many State Department officials out of the loop. Gration has also demanded approval over the actions of U.S. Somalia embassy officials, who work out of the Nairobi embassy but are not under his purview in any substantive way. The State Department did not respond to repeated requests for comment on these issues.
One can see why Gration might have been tempted to involve himself in that embassy's affairs. With Somalia's government exerting virtually no control over its country, the terrorist group Al-Shabaab has been a constant menace for Kenyans along Kenya's northern border; and the Kenyan embassy has indeed collaborated with others on Somali issues in some instances. But the former Foreign Service official who I spoke with didn't see this as justification.
"He feels like he should be the one overseeing it, and that's not the way the Department of Defense, the White House, or the Department of State see it," he said. "Those people work for undersecretary of Africa. They don't work for him. But he wants to take control of them." Gration, he said, "has limits to his authority and discretion. And that's not been comfortably borne by Mr. Gration."
And so, in the tradition of a Rev. Jeremiah Wright or a Greg Craig, Gration became the latest longtime friend of Obama to be cut loose upon becoming a liability. How much of a liability he was will become fully clear before long.
Molly Redden is an assistant editor at The New Republic. She was previously a reporter-researcher. Her work has appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Slate, and Salon. She was born and raised in the Chicago area.
