Comments on: ONE KENYAN’S PERSPECTIVE

By: The Highlife: Afrocan House « DJ Chief Boima: Sherbro Son

The Highlife: Afrocan House « DJ Chief Boima: Sherbro Son — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 17:29:12 +0000

[...] of stereotypes instead of progressive ideas of contemporary urban globally participating Africans. (Via) The use of the word tribal, adding non sensical chants, adding a conga or a cowbell to house [...]

By: timeblind

timeblind — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 23:52:48 +0000

I did a few kiva loans myself. when you consider the stupidity of living in our expensive cities and how much we can waste in a single night, its so simple to loan $25 to somebody worthwhile. they have a payback rate of +95% which is better than corporate bonds

By: carlos

carlos — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:47:17 +0000

Lamin, Matt- BIG UP for posting these! I’ve been on a biiiiig interview / documentary binge for the last couple of months, and had been looking for ones w/ Wainaina with no success. Nice!

By: Matt Shadetek

Matt Shadetek — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:46:50 +0000

And a talk on microcredit from the founder of Grameen Bank:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-W6y0HzFWk

Long but very interesting.

By: Matt Shadetek

Matt Shadetek — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 02:48:57 +0000

A cool video about solar energy in Ghana:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7jzJ0jIzmE&NR=1

By: Matt Shadetek

Matt Shadetek — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:26:46 +0000

Found this on the same site, Christian US domestic perspective:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MGYzhbKPDg

By: Matt Shadetek

Matt Shadetek — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 01:02:19 +0000

This is very interesting.

This may be a weird transition but this kind of poorly targeted altruism makes me think of specific experiences I’ve had in the underground music scene. This reminds me of what I call the ‘for the scene’ syndrome, where people are doing things saying ‘oh, I’m not into this for the money, I’m doing it for the scene’ and based on this kind of ‘altruism’ do things which are not grounded in financial sustainable reality. IE put on shows or run businesses which are ‘keeping it real’ artistically but not making money. Almost inevitably this continues for a while, the money runs out, grinds to a halt and then crashes. Often with bad destructive results that pull down other parts of the scene that they are trying to help.

What I gathered from this is that any thing that is going to be good for anyone has to first look after itself, be sustainable and work before it can help anyone else.

Very cool thoughts from Binyavanga Wainaina anyway.

By: Rupture

Rupture — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:39:05 +0000

Binyavanga is great. we had coffee once.
i wish they’d transcribe online interviews though, so much easier to read than listen through…