The Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna, a seven-time Grammy Award-winner, actress, pop culture icon, founder of Raising Malawi and a Goodwill Ambassador for Child Welfare is in Kenya. The 57-year old icon with…
Posts tagged Kibera
Small bag offers solution to Kenyan slum’s ‘flying toilets’
The usually straightforward act of going to the toilet is far from simple in Kibera, the sprawling slum on the edge of Kenya’s capital. Hundreds of thousands of people, whose homes are little more than…
Nairobi celebrates Nelson Mandela International Day
Thursday marks Nelson Mandela International Day and special celebrations will be held at Kilimani Primary School in Nairobi, Kenya. Every year on 18 July — the day Nelson Mandela was born — the Nelson Mandela…
Victoria Kimani drops second single, WHOA!
Chocolate City’s Victoria Kimani has been hard at work and has just released her latest single “Whoa” in Nairobi. Produced by Kid Konnect, the song is said to be a thank you from Victoria to…
Gisele Bundchen samples village life in Kenya
Brazilian multi-millionaire model Gisele Bundchen took time out of her busy schedule to spend a week exploring grassroots sustainable energy projects in Kenya. As the mixture of poverty and entrepreneurship caught her attention, she decided…
UK singer in Kenya over Kibera project
Legendary UK based singer, Mica Paris, who is the patron of the UK charity KIN (Kibera in Need) is Nairobi to see the projects that the charity runs jointly with local organisation Riziki Kenya. Mica…
Kenya, thank Germany for beer and music!
A lot of Kenyans feel a kinship with Germany because of the love for beer that also runs deep in many a Kenyans’ veins. However, a not-so-new partnership is bearing truckloads of fruits, begging the…