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Venue Change For Apostle Karanja Meetings

The venue where the renowned Apostle of Christ Harvesters Ministries in the USA, Apostle Karanja, will be meeting the faithful and other Kenyans next month has been changed from Kärtorp to the old Bagarmossen Church.

Speaking to KSB, Brother in Christ Githuku wa Muirani of the Outreach Ministries said that the “Kenya Christian Community in Stockholm” which has organized the three day event, would like to alert all Kenyans about the venue change to avoid confusion.

Apostle Karanja will be in Sweden for three days, time when he is expected to spread God’s message to Kenyans and friends here in Stockholm.

Okoth Osewe

April 19, 2009 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | Leave a Comment

Kenyan Writer Shailja Patel To Perform In Uppsala

Shailja Patel, Nordic Africa Institute Guest Writer 2009, will appear in the series Writers’ Africa at an event in the Institute library, Kungsgatan 38, Uppsala, on Thursday 23 April from 6.00 to 8.00 p.m.

SHAILJA PATEL

Shailja Patel will discuss Poetry, Performance and Resistance in a Kenyan and African context with Mai Palmberg, co-ordinator of the Cultural Images in and of Africa research project at NAI.

Shailja Patel is a Kenyan poet, playwright, spoken word artist and political activist. Shailja Patel is also the founder of a Direct Action Training Program in Kenya to empower grassroots activists with skills for political engagement.

Her central work, performed as a one-woman show, is known as Migritude. The name, which she has composed as a play on the words ‘negritude’ and ‘migrant attitude’, “asserts the dignity of the outsider status, and captures the unique political and cultural space occupied by migrants who refuse to choose between identities of origin and identities of assimilation, which channel difference as a source of power rather than conceal or erase it”.

‘Migritude’ has already found its way into the discourse on Africa and the world. The first part of Migritude was premiered in 2006 in the San Fransisco Bay Area. It is conceived as a cycle in four parts, and draws on the artist’s spiritual and cultural heritage as a third-generation East African of Indian Gujarati descent.

Read more about Shailja Patel on the NAI web site

April 19, 2009 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | 1 Comment

Rally Planned In Nairobi Over Migingo

17th April 2009

The Officer Commanding Station,
Central Police Station,
Nairobi.

Dear Sir,

RE: NOTIFICATION TO HOLD A PEACEFUL PUBLIC RALLY OVER THE MIGINGO ISLAND ISSUE BY PATRIOTIC CITIZENS OF KENYA AT UHURU PARK ON SATURDAY APRIL 25, 2009

We, the undersigned and other Patriotic Kenyans, hereby bring to your notice our intention to hold a public rally as subjected above. We request you to provide adequate security and to control traffic as Kenyans peacefully congregate at Uhuru Park for the rally on Saturday, April 25, 2009, from 10 am to 4 pm, to:

1. Publicly and plainly reaffirm our unwavering stand that Migingo Island is and has always been an integral part of the territory of the Republic of Kenya, and that it is equal to any other part of Kenya, and we will not allow it to be marginalised and discriminated against.

2. Demand the unconditional removal of the Ugandan flag from, and the evacuation of Migingo Island by the occupying armed forces of the Republic of Uganda, within 24 hours of the rally.

3. If they do not do so, the Ugandan Ambassador to Kenya should be kicked out and ours recalled from Kampala upon the expiry of the 24 hour ultimatum, and a punitive economic blockade be imposed on Uganda.

4. Demand the immediate suspension of the East African integration talks and the immediate withdrawal of the Kenyan delegation from the said sham talks.

5. Demand that General Jeremiah Kianga, the incompetent Chief of General Staff, immediately vacates office for playing politics with the sovereignty and security of the Republic of Kenya.

We consider it an act of HIGH TREASON for President Kibaki to side with the invading Ugandans by speaking and acting in a manner to suggest that Migingo Island is not clearly an integral part of Kenya. Which constitution did he swear to protect if he doesn’t know such basics? Which country does he purport to rule if Kenya’s boundaries are a matter for negotiation with expansionist neighbours?

Mr. Kibaki has no mandate to renegotiate Kenya’s boarders? By purporting to do so, irrespective of whether he uses surveyors or whatever experts as a concession mechanism, he is endangering the security and sovereignty of the Republic. If Migingo is negotiable so is any part of the Republic! That is extremely dangerous and we will not be spectators in our destruction.

We are hereby serving a 14 day notice on President Kibaki to immediately discharge his oath of office to defend the Constitution of Kenya by reclaiming Migingo islands. Failure to which, he should vacate office immediately to pave way for a more able Kenyan to take charge in the spirit of our National Anthem which in part states:
Amkeni ndugu zetu

Tufanye sote bidii
Nasi tujitoe kwa nguvu
Nchi yetu ya Kenya
Tunayoipenda
Tuwe tayari kuilinda

Yours faithfully,

For and on behalf of all Patriotic Kenyans
Farouk Machanje
Okiya Omtatah Okoiti
Ephantus Githae
Al-Amin Kimathi
Sheikh Ramadhan
George Nyongesa

April 19, 2009 Posted by makozewe | News & Analysis | 5 Comments