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KENYA FORUM REVIEW, APRIL 2012: Your chance to catch up with the 27 postings and articles published on the Forum this month. Click the link or just scroll down… ‘TAHIDI HIGH’, ‘MALI’, ‘TIES THAT BIND’, ‘TA BASAMU’, ‘MOTHER-IN-LAW’, ‘MACHACHARI’… KENYA’S LOCAL TV PRODUCTION NOW GETS PRIME TIME KENYA AND THE ‘DATE RAPE’ DRUGS KENYA TERROR […]

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Locally produced television productions are gradually becoming popular among Kenyans as viewers come to appreciate home-grown shows more and more. It has been a long journey along this road but there encouraging signs that Kenya-made television programmes are getting better and more popular as time goes by. FOREIGN DOMINATION – LOCAL TV WAS FOR HICKS […]

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Emma ‘Mwangi’ a 21 year old college girl woke up in a strange room. As Emma came to she realised she was in a guest house and that she had been sexually assaulted.  A 1,000 Shilling note lay beside the bed accompanied by a brief note: “you can use that for your transport”. At this […]

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The Kenya Forum has learned from a security advisor to a major commercial concern in Kenya of a heightened threat of a possible terrorist attack in Nairobi this weekend. Whereas the US Embassy’s warning earlier in the week referred to ‘credible information regarding a possible attack on Nairobi hotels and prominent Kenyan government buildings’ the timing […]

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Prior to and the introduction of Christianity in Africa and the advent of colonialism, polygamy was common and acceptable. A man was allowed to have as many wives as he wanted. The more the wives and children a man had the more it symbolised wealth, gave him a social status and a form of pension […]

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