Baroka - Instablogs
Sep 15 2008
Yes, a miracle did happen last week all over the world when the Large Hadron Collider was switched on. It was the largest of such facility built with the singular aim of understanding particle physics the more, and thus explain the many puzzles of our...
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Sep 12 2008
The president of Nigeria on return from his “pilgrimage” on lesser Hajj to the holy land of Saudi Arabia on September 8 2008 did something that was not expected: he sacked his Secretary Ambassador Baba Gana Kingibe who until his...
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Sep 11 2008
Read this so you can understand the hypocrisy of the Republican party, and wonder with me why they seem to be increasing their lead nevertheless.
Sep 11 2008
I have had this doubts before: whether Senator Obama’s image as an intellectual may not count against him in the final day of the election. Truth is: most voters do not really care about the rhetoric as they do about image. And sometimes in...
Sep 11 2008
Today, I post news links of comments that relate to the character and chances of the American presidential candidates and their running mates. All of a sudden, the presence of Governor Palin has made the race a very interesting one. This article looks...
Sep 11 2008
In this days of hot politicking for the soul of Washington, language gets the most boot. One careless innuendo has set in motion a roller coaster media hype.
Sep 10 2008
Yea, we made it at last. Two sparkling gold medals, and another record broken, belatedly though, at the on-going Olympics from the Women’s Shot Put (F54) and the Powerlifting events. Yesterday, two of Nigerian contingents in the Paralympics at Beijing...
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Sep 10 2008
Perhaps I’ve been too interested in Obama these days, too fixated by his hopes for a better tomorrow for Americans (and the whole world perhaps) to look at any positive sides the other side might offer. Former President Clinton himself never failed...
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Sep 8 2008
These days when I stay too close to a pot of boiling meat, what I remember most are the various meals I enjoyed on the campus of Moi University Eldoret in Spring 2005. Not not nyama choma, although I had the privilege of sampling the taste of that...
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Sep 8 2008
Nigeria’s president is ill. That is known, even if government will not give voice to that reality for many fears of the unknown. The fact however is: Yar’adua is not hale and hearty. He has just returned from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia...
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