Ukwelii's Half-Truths

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A blog by Ukwelii

Blog description:

Far from it's oxymoronic title, this blog trails a young African mind discovering heritage, and charting out his journey. Poetree, Commentree and Kenyan youth culture explored as well.

Blog Rank:

Ukwelii's Half-Truths ranks 863 in Africa and 67 in Kenya. According to site visitors it ranks 1036, and 1151 according to page views:

According to blogroll links it ranks 1422 and 1405 according to the amount of links within Afrigator blog posts

My portrait as sketched by a Chinese Artist in Charcoal at Centra

I love New York. Mark Kaigwa Posted via email from Ukwelii wa Mambo Ukwelii

Published on Jan 11, 2010, 5:11 am

Kuweni Serious – Waking a Sleeping Generation of Kenyans

Young people in Kenya are no strangers to controversy, it must be said. The perpetrators of Kenya’s post-election violence in the last elections used the youth to execute their agendas. It’s about time somebody spoke up and like Obama will tell you, there’s no better time than now. Introducing

Published on Dec 15, 2009, 12:13 pm

BEHIND THE SCENES: My KBC English Service Interview with Jared @O

Had a great time. My first time on National Public Radio, KBC’s English Service. Was there talking about my short film @DawaTheFilm – http://twitter.com/DawaTheFilm (Follow them!) Watch the trailer here – http://bit.ly/dawathefilm And go to Http://DawaTheFilm.co.ke Will try get an MP3 of the interview and post it

Published on Dec 10, 2009, 6:14 am

A Conversation on Conservation – My post at TEDxNairobi

I’m one of the curators of TEDxNairobi and though I wasn’t in attendance at the inaugural event (was busy working on my first film – Dawa <– Follow them on Twitter!) I was able to do the awesome planning with the great members of the Dream Team – Joshua,

Published on Dec 7, 2009, 6:58 am

Pamoja Mtaani Wins Award + Features at Games for Health 2009

This post is long overdue, but earlier this year, Pamoja Mtaani - a videogame I co-wrote and consulted on for Warner Bros was awarded the Global Business Coalition’s Core Competence Business Excellence Award. The excerpt is below. Congratulations to Award-Winning”PAMOJA MTAANI” (”Together in the Hood”), Behavior Change Video Game

Published on Nov 27, 2009, 12:36 pm

KTN’s Larry Madowo interviews Kahenya Kamunyu and Mark Kaigwa o

Last week, Larry Madowo – Business Anchor for KTN, sent out a tweet to his followers on who to bring to KTN’s Sunrise Live show the following morning to talk about Social Media. The said person would accompany Kenyan Twitter Rockstar and techpreneur (not to mention, good friend of

Published on Nov 20, 2009, 3:34 pm

EXCLUSIVE: @DawaTheFilm and Just A Band (@justabandwidth) (PICS)

@DawaTheFilm – Http://Twitter.com/DawaTheFilm visited Just A Band last week for an evening of chilling, lounging and a surprise visit by The Teichmann Brothers who also watched Dawa The Film and gave a good review. @Jimchuchu @nairobidhobi and @82blink were present with @mbithi @Mugash and @WairimuG were in the

Published on Nov 16, 2009, 9:04 am

We Won 2nd Place at @MarketingAfrica Quiz Night at The Carnivore

———- Forwarded message ———- From: Mark Kaigwa Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:02:10 +0300 Subject: We Won 2nd Place at @MarketingAfrica Quiz Night at The Carnivore Restaurant with Team ‘So-Mbili’ Tonight To: post@posterous Good times! That’s @WairimuG wit me and Art Director Tony and the rest

Published on Nov 14, 2009, 6:22 am

World Cyber Games Kenya Team is here!

So, if you’ve been keeping up with things on the Ukwelii Blog, a couple weeks ago, I told you about the WCG Kenya Team Finals happening at the Village Market. They went down, and we’re pretty successful. For those who were unable to make it, and those who want

Published on Oct 26, 2009, 9:22 pm

Kibera Kid

  As part of the continuing series on African Filmmaking, we look at a film that’s made acclaim in both filmmaking and development in Nairobi’s Kibera Slum. We’re looking at Kibera Kid this time. A short film revolving around the choices that people have in Kibera, and one young

Published on Oct 20, 2009, 2:49 pm

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