Africa was once known as Akebu-Lan, meaning "Mother of Mankind" or "Garden of Eden.' This name was used by the Moors, Nubians, Numidians, Khart-Haddans (Carthagenians), and Ethiopians.    If the MESSAGE is CONSISTANT, then the METHOD will lead only to the MESSAGE.  The MESSAGE is "Jesus Saves." ...

There is a passage of scripture from the book of Habakkuk Hosea (NKJV) which goes something like this: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Now put aside the context for the sake of this blog posting, and just consider that statement. Ignorance can have a profound impact on someone's life,...

England make hard work of beating Tunisia in their second pool match of the World Cup Sevens....

Since the primary school re-opened in the New Year, we have noticed the absence of some of the adolescent boys with whom we had come to know. In particular, we began to miss Jamaal*, a fourteen year old boy whom we had spent some time with last fall. We were shocked to learn that he had been taken b...

National Geographic: Kenya's Eburu Forest was once considered inaccessible, thanks to its deep ravines and thick undergrowth. But a hike through its outer fringes these days feels positively crowded. The sound of axes echoes across the forest constantly, and the forest floor is scarred by dark mound...

I don't have a lot to say about the new footprints from Ileret, described by Matthew Bennett and colleagues. Seems like a nicely done study, particularly given the length constraints in Science. With respect to the comparison with Laetoli, I think that the perspective article by Robin Crompton and T...

Meet Lucy - she’s the start of so many wonderful things that happened today. So Many Wonderful Things Today - Stevie Wonder is Honored by the President, for his contributions. The Kenyans can now clearly prove that life did begin in the Oduvuai Gorge Indeed.. Hopefully this will end the argume...

The oldest human footprints - left more than 1.5 million years ago - have been discovered in northern Kenya....

Police Viol KP readers, this statement by Philip Alston, the UN’s Special Rappoteur on Extra-Judicial Killings is a MUST READ. Alston has just wrapped up his fact finding mission in Kenya. Of course, the KNCHR has been on this issue for a while. But it is still startling to see how pervasive t...

Slumdog Entrepreneur by Sam Daley-Harris, Founder of the Microcredit Summit Campaign When my wife and I slipped into our theater seats to watch Slumdog Millionaire, we braced ourselves for a journey into urban slums, a world inhabited by over one billion people globally. But unlike the movie-goers i...