Podcasts about Nairobi

Makala hii inaangazia historia ya mapinduzi ya Ufaransa, na pia mahojiano na mwalimu wa lugha ya kifaransa katika jiji la Nairobi nchini Kenya, lakini pia maonyesho ya muziki katika kituo cha utamaduni wa Ufaransa Alliance francaise ya Nairobi na katika muziki ni Popal Issevosi msanii aliyejikita katika kuhimiza juu ya namna ya kukinga mazingira huko DRC.Ungana na mwandishi wetu Ruben Lukumbuka ambaye anazungumza na Mwanahistoria aliyebobea Benjamin Babunga Watuna akiwa Brussels Ubelgiji

Kate Adie introduces stories from China, Kenya, Australia, Bolivia and the USA.Sichuan province in China is home to a long-standing Tibetan resistance movement. While Beijing views Tibet as an integral part of China – the allegiances of many Tibetans living in China lie with its exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama - voicing support for him can lead to arrest or prison. Laura Bicker visited the town of Aba, where she met monks practicing their faith under heavy surveillance.Youth led protests erupted again in Kenya this week, with many young Kenyans angry at the lack of good job opportunities in the country - more than 30 people died in the demonstrations, and over 500 were arrested. Anne Soy has been following the story in Nairobi.The small Australian town of Morwell will be returning to some form of normality this week, following the conclusion of the trial of Erin Patterson who was found guilty of murdering three of her relatives and attempting to kill another after serving them Beef Wellington laced with toxic death cap mushrooms. Katy Watson reflects on how the town was transformed by the visiting media circus.Bolivia was once seen as an economic miracle, thanks to its huge natural gas reserves. But the energy exports on which the country once thrived have fallen sharply in recent years, pushing many people into poverty. Carolyn Lamboley reveals how the country's economic woes are now affecting people from all walks of life.And finally, we're in the Zion National Park in Utah where Stephen Moss tells the story of the conservation campaign that helped bring the Californian Condor back from the brink of extinction.Series Producer: Serena Tarling Production Coordinators: Sophie Hill & Katie Morrison Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith

Die Proteste in Kenia eskalieren: Denn Präsident William Ruto hat die Polizei aufgefordert, auf Demonstrierende zu schießen. Seit Wochen gehen junge Menschen in Kenia auf die Straße und protestieren gegen Polizeigewalt. Der Protest ist lebensgefährlich. Seit vergangenem Jahr sind mehr als 100 Menschen von der Polizei bei Protesten erschossen worden. Wie ist die Lage vor Ort? Anne Cläre Fleischmann aus dem ARD-Studio in Nairobi berichtet aus einem Land, das um seine Demokratie kämpft. Und dieser Kampf hat auch Auswirkungen auf ihre eigene journalistische Arbeit: Bei einer der letzten Pressekonferenzen, an der ihre Kolleginnen und Kollegen teilnahmen, stürmten Bewaffnete den Raum. Die kenianische Anwältin Faith Odhiambo setzt sich für die Sicherheit der Protestierenden ein. Für ihr Engagement wurde sie mehrfach ausgezeichnet. Wie beurteilt sie die zunehmende Polizeigewalt im eigenen Land? Und: Gibt es Hoffnung auf ein Ende der Gewalt? ----- Moderation: Natalie Amiri Redaktion: Sarah Heck, Julia Schuster, Nils Kopp Mitarbeit: Anna Stosch, Caroline Mennerich Redaktionsschluss: Donnerstag, 10.07.2025 ----- Alle Folgen des Weltspiegel Podcasts findet ihr hier: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/weltspiegel-podcast/61593768/ ----- Podcast-Tipp: “Berlin Code” https://kurz.ard.de/BerlinCode

Die Proteste in Kenia eskalieren: Denn Präsident William Ruto hat die Polizei aufgefordert, auf Demonstrierende zu schießen. Seit Wochen gehen junge Menschen in Kenia auf die Straße und protestieren gegen Polizeigewalt. Der Protest ist lebensgefährlich. Seit vergangenem Jahr sind mehr als 100 Menschen von der Polizei bei Protesten erschossen worden. Wie ist die Lage vor Ort? Anne Cläre Fleischmann aus dem ARD-Studio in Nairobi berichtet aus einem Land, das um seine Demokratie kämpft. Und dieser Kampf hat auch Auswirkungen auf ihre eigene journalistische Arbeit: Bei einer der letzten Pressekonferenzen, an der ihre Kolleginnen und Kollegen teilnahmen, stürmten Bewaffnete den Raum. Die kenianische Anwältin Faith Odhiambo setzt sich für die Sicherheit der Protestierenden ein. Für ihr Engagement wurde sie mehrfach ausgezeichnet. Wie beurteilt sie die zunehmende Polizeigewalt im eigenen Land? Und: Gibt es Hoffnung auf ein Ende der Gewalt? ----- Moderation: Natalie Amiri Redaktion: Sarah Heck, Julia Schuster, Nils Kopp Mitarbeit: Anna Stosch, Caroline Mennerich Redaktionsschluss: Donnerstag, 10.07.2025 ----- Alle Folgen des Weltspiegel Podcasts findet ihr hier: https://www.ardaudiothek.de/sendung/weltspiegel-podcast/61593768/ ----- Podcast-Tipp: “Berlin Code” https://kurz.ard.de/BerlinCode

Presenter: Audrey Brown Producers: Tom Kavanagh, Nyasha Michelle and Bella Hassan in London. Charles Gitonga in Nairobi. Technical Producer: Pat Sissons Senior Producer Paul Bakibinga Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

Hii leo jaridani tunakuletea mada kwa kina inayotupeleka nchini Tanzania kushuhudia mafunzo ya ukufunzi kwa wanadhimu wa Umoja wa Mataifa. Pia tunakuletea muhtasari wa habari zikiwemo za mkataba wa amani DRC na Rwanda, UKIMWI, na maadhimisho ya Siku ya kimataifa ya Kiswahili, na uchambuzi wa neno.Wajumbe wa Baraza la Usalama la Umoja wa Mataifa wamekaribisha mkataba wa amani kati ya Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Congo, DRC na Rwanda uliotiwa saini tarehe 27 mwezi uliopita wa Juni, huku wakishukuru Marekani, Qatar na Muungano wa Afrika kwa juhudi za usuluhishi.Ukata uliosababishwa na wahisani kukata au kupunguza ghafla na kwa kiasi kikubwa ufadhili kwenye miradi ya kupambana na UKIMWI umekuwa na madhara kwa nchi zilizoathiriwa vibaya na ugonjwa huo, imesema ripoti mpya ya shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la kukabiliana na Ukimwi, UNAIDS.Leo kwenye Ofisi za Umoja wa Mataifa jijini Nairobi, Kenya kumefanyika maadhimisho ya siku ya kimataifa ya lugha ya Kiswahili ambapo wanafunzi wa Shule ya Sekondari ya Juu ya Mangu wametuma ujumbe wao wa umuhimu wa lugha hiyo kupitia ngonjera.Na katika kujifunza lugha ya Kiswahili na hii leo mchambuzi wetu mlumbi wa Kiswahili Joramu Nkumbi kutoka nchini Tanzania, anafafanua maana ya maneno "CHARAKAMU na BARAKALA!Mwenyeji wako ni Anold Kayanda, karibu!

Kenya's President William Ruto has ordered police to shoot protesters in the legs any protesters targeting businesses. The UN and human rights groups have accused the police of using excessive force during a wave of anti-government protests. Also on the programme, as Europe's top human rights court finds Russia responsible for the 2014 downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight over Ukraine, we speak to a relative of three of those killed in the crash; and how one Iranian singer fell in love with Spanish flamenco and now performs it in Farsi. (Photo: Kenya's President William Ruto in Nairobi, Kenya in 2024. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya)

While attention often focuses on developed markets, the most exciting fintech innovations are emerging where mobile technology, young digital-native populations, and gaps in traditional banking converge. These regions aren't just adopting Western models – they're creating entirely new paradigms that may eventually reshape global finance. Today I'm joined by Nadia Costanzo, Director of Banking for the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America at Wise. Nadia drives Wise's expansion across these regions by building banking relationships, securing licenses, and navigating complex regulatory frameworks. Her background is uniquely valuable – before Wise, she worked with Kiva in Nairobi facilitating microfinance across Africa, contributed to the World Bank's Universal Financial Access agenda, and worked directly with microfinance institutions in Paraguay. Today, we'll explore how fintech evolves differently across emerging markets, examine key challenges, and discuss surprising innovations where traditional banking is limited. We'll also consider what these developments mean for established financial institutions looking to engage with these dynamic markets.

In the 1970s and 80s, Caroline Eshghi was a young girl living in Bristol, Somerset, and Wiltshire. From the moment she was born until she ran away at the age of 15, Caroline was beaten, burned and starved by her mother. In May this year, Melanie Burmingham was jailed for 20 months for abusing her daughter more than 50 years ago. Caroline tells Krupa Padhy why she is now petitioning for a change to the law around historical cases that only allows a sentence available at the time of offending. The first malaria treatment suitable for babies has been approved for use. We speak to BBC Africa Health Correspondent Dorcas Wangira in Nairobi to find out how this may empower healthcare workers in the battle against the disease that takes the lives of hundreds of thousands of people each year.One of the key measures that Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood is reported to be considering as part of her Sentencing Bill is a national rollout of drugs that suppress sexual arousal to try and tackle sex offenders. There is currently a working pilot in the South West of England, and several of the clinicians, psychiatrists and forensic psychologists have raised concerns about making such a scheme mandatory. Krupa talks to Don Rubin, Emeritus Professor in Forensic Psychology at Newcastle University, and a consultant to the pilot programme. Fatima Timbo, known as Fats Timbo, is a content creator and comedian who has amassed an incredible 3 million followers on TikTok. Since appearing on TV show The Undateables in 2018, she's also been part of the team bringing us the Paralympics coverage from Paris last year. Born with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism, she documents her experiences of being - as she describes it - ‘a little person', and now she's sharing her tips for succeeding in a world where it's difficult to be different in her book Main Character Energy: Ten Commandments for Living Life Fearlessly. Presenter: Krupa Padhy Producer: Sarah Jane Griffiths

Thirty years on, the UN urges the world to remember the victims of the Srebrenica genocide and amplify the voices of survivors At least 10 people killed as violent protests erupt in Nairobi and across Kenya World leaders push for the safe and human rights-conscious use of artificial intelligence at the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva 

Hii leo jaridani tunakuletea mada kwa kina inayoturejesha katika mkutano wa 69 wa kamisheni ya hali ya wanawake duniani CSW69 kumsikia Mkurugenzi wa TEN/MET Nasra Kibukila kuhusu jitihada zao za kuhakikisha watoto wote wa Kitanzania wanapata elimu bora, jumuishi na yenye usawa, kwa kushirikiana na Serikali na wadau mbalimbali wa elimu ndani na nje ya nchi.Kamishna Mkuu wa Haki za Binadamu wa Umoja wa Mataifa Volker Turk, amesikitishwa sana na mauaji ya jana ya watu wapatao 10, sambamba na uporaji na uharibifu wa mali wakati polisi walipokabiliana na waandamanaji kwenye mji mkuu wa Kenya, Nairobi na katika kaunti nyingine 16.Huko Geneva, Uswisi kumeanza mkutano wa siku 4 kuhusu matumizi ya Akili Mnemba au AI kwa maslahi ya wote ambapo Katibu Mkuu wa shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la mawasiliano, ITU, Doreen Bogdan-Martin ameuliza washiriki ni jambo gani wanafanya AI ihudumie ubinadamu.?Na kuelekea kumbukizi yamauaji ya Srebrenica tarehe 11 mwezi huu wa julai, Umoja wa Mataifa unakumbuka mauaji hayo yaliyofanyika wakati wa vita vilivyofuatia baada ya kuvunjika kwa iliyokuwa Yugoslavia. Zaidi ya watu 100,000 huko Bosnia na Herzegovina waliuawa kati ya mwaka 1992 na 1995, wengi wao wakiwa waislamu wa Bosnia. Umoja wa Mataifa unasema mauaji ya Srebrenica ni moja ya vipindi vya kiza zaidi vya vita.Na katika mashinani tunakupeleka katika miji ya mpakani ya Matar na Muon katika eneo la Gambella nchini Ethiopia ambako maelfu ya wakimbizi wamewasili kutoka Jimbo la Upper Nile nchini Sudan Kusini wakikimbia vita na njaa, na sasa wanasubiri usajili na usaidizi kutoka kwa Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la mpango wa chakula. Nyandow Wie Deng ni mmoja akisimulia yaliyomkumba.Mwenyeji wako ni Anold Kayanda, karibu!

Cet été, RFI vous emmène à la découverte des objets de pouvoir, des objets qui sont devenus des symboles de l'autorité de certains hommes d'État ou d'acteurs politiques du continent. Dans cet épisode, nous allons au Kenya pour parler du chasse-mouche, qu'avait adopté Jomo Kenyatta. Il est devenu le premier président du pays le 12 décembre 1964, un an après l'indépendance, et l'est resté jusqu'à sa mort, le 22 août 1978. Les images d'archives le montrent brandissant son chasse-mouche, un accessoire fait à partir d'une queue de vache qui fait sens pour sa communauté, les Kikuyus, mais qui l'aide aussi à affirmer sa position de chef d'État.  De notre correspondante à Nairobi,  Mai 1963, élections générales au Kenya. Jomo Kenyatta est alors le leader de KANU, le parti en tête. Il est photographié jubilant, brandissant son chasse-mouche. « Kenyatta était toujours avec son chasse-mouche, raconte Anaïs Angelo, historienne à l'académie des sciences de l'Autriche, et autrice d'un livre sur l'arrivée au pouvoir et la présidence de Jomo Kenyatta. C'est un objet qu'il apportait avec lui partout où il allait et que l'on retrouve aussi sur toutes les représentations de Kenyatta que ce soit des photos, des statues... Ça fait partie de son personnage politique ». Cet objet, selon cette historienne, a permis à l'ancien président de renforcer son image d'homme proche du peuple : « Dans sa manière de gouverner, il a un rapport très personnel. Ce n'est pas quelqu'un qui investit énormément par exemple dans les médias. Par contre, il va dans des cérémonies collectives, locales... il visite souvent les gens. Et je pense qu'il faut prendre le chasse-mouche comme quelque chose que tout le monde a, qui est quelque part assez banal, assez traditionnel, mais qui est crédible ». À lire aussiJomo Kenyatta, défenseur des droits des Kikuyu (1&2) Dans la culture kikuyu, dont est originaire Jomo Kenyatta, le chasse-mouche permet d'éloigner les insectes, mais il est aussi utilisé pour saluer ou asperger de l'eau bénite lors de cérémonies. Ce sont les hommes qui s'en servent, les plus âgés de la communauté. C'est aussi cet ancrage culturel qu'a voulu montrer Kenyatta, affirme James Nene, secrétaire général du Conseil des anciens Kikuyus : « Traditionnellement, le chasse-mouche permet d'établir un statut d'ancien au sein de la communauté. Aucun ancien ne sortait sans son chasse-mouche. Jomo Kenyatta respectait et suivait la culture kikuyu. Il utilisait donc le chasse-mouche comme un moyen d'identification, à sa culture et à son statut. Cela complétait son image d'ancien et d'homme d'État ». Une image qu'il a soigneusement construite dès 1938, quand il choisit de s'appeler Jomo Kenyatta. « Jomo Kenyatta a inventé son personnage, il a inventé son nom, remarque Anaïs Angelo. C'était quelqu'un qui n'était pas nécessairement prédit pour faire de la politique. C'était un jeune, dans une société kikuyu qui respecte la séniorité. Pour affirmer son autorité politique, il s'est créé un personnage de sage, d'ancien ». En plus du chasse-mouche, il adopte également un chapeau traditionnel Luo, une des plus importantes communautés au Kenya. Et celle dont est originaire celui qui deviendra son rival, Oginga Odinga. À lire aussiKenyatta vs Odinga: début et fin d'une guerre dynastique au Kenya

Two people have reportedly died of gunshot wounds after police opened fire during protests in Kenya. It's the latest in a wave of anti-government rallies that began last year. The demonstrations mark the 35th anniversary of the historic Saba Saba protests that launched Kenya's push for multiparty democracy. Security forces blocked all major roads into central Nairobi ahead of the protests. We'll hear analysis.Also, we are in Morocco as the Women's Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) gets underway. How has the host country fared so far?And a conversation with musical icon Angélique Kidjo about her Hollywood Walk of Fame recognition!Presenter: Richard Kagoe Producers: Nyasha Michelle, Tom Kavanagh and Yvette Twagiramariya Technical Producer: Frank McWeeny Senior Journalist: Karnie Sharp Editors: Andre Lombard and Karnie Sharp

AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports police are blocking major roads leading into Kenya's capital, Nairobi, as anti-government protests continue.

Siku ya kiswahili duniani, ambayo imekuwa ikiadhimishwa tangu mwaka 2022. Maadhimisho ya mwaka huu imefanyika jijini Kigali nchini Rwanda, ambako mamia ya wataalam na wapenzi wa Kiswahili wamekutana kwa siku mbili kujadiliana kuhusu nafasi na umuhimu wa lugha ya Kiswahili kwa raia wa nchi zote za Jumuiya. Kauli mbiu ni kusherehekea lugha ya Umoja, utambulisho na mchango wake kwa dunia.RFI kiswahili imeshirikiana na taasisi ya mafunzo ya biashara na ufundi stadi, NIBS ya jijini Nairobi, kuandaa makala maalum ya Habari RAFIKI na mwandishi wetu Ruben Lukumbuka ameongoza makala hii

A year after a deadly crackdown, Kenya’s streets are alive with protests again, this time after a blogger died in police custody and officers shot a demonstrator at close range. As outrage grows, so do calls for accountability. Why does police brutality persist in Kenya, and how do officers continue to evade justice? In this episode: Irũngũ Houghton (@irunguhoughton), Executive Director, Amnesty International Kenya Episode credits: This episode was produced by Chloe K Li, Sonia Bhagat, Amy Walters, Marcos Bartolomé, and Haleema Shah, with Phillip Lanos, Spencer Cline, Melanie Marich, Kisaa Zehra, Remas AlHawari, Marya Khan, and our host, Manuel Rapalo. It was edited by Kylene Kiang and Sarí el-Khalili. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editors are Hisham Abu Salah and Mohannad al-Melhem. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio. Connect with us: @AJEPodcasts on Instagram, X, Facebook, Threads and YouTube

Starting pistol fired ahead of Nigeria's 2027 elections. Two main opposition leaders form alliance in bid to unseat President Bola Tinubu and the ruling party.We meet a Kenyan breastmilk champion -who is donating litres of breast milk to families in need.Plus, what are natural assets and why do we need to value them in Africa?Presenter : Charles Gitonga Producers: Blessing Aderogba in Lagos, Sunita Nahar in London, and Richard Kagoe in Nairobi. Technical Producer: Philip Bull Senior Producer: Paul Bakibinga Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

Yesterday, we hosted the final installment of our teach-in series "Beyond the Bill." After the June 25 uprisings last year, many Kenyans were radicalized, they began seeing the state for what it is, they started seeing the contradictions. We wanted to capture that momentum and, through political education, help people make sense of the shape of power that guides what has been happening in the country—from "how countries should think about debt" to the history of Mwakenya, to Pan-Africanism in the DRC, and much more. Every month for the last year, we invited people to help us understand these connected struggles, and we're grateful to everyone who took part and, of course, everyone who listened and shared!In two of our sessions, we spoke to Sudanese comrades Rabab Elnaiem, Husam Mahjoub, and Gussai Sheikheldin. The edited transcripts of these conversations, we put together and published in a booklet called "Revolution Neither Starts Nor Ends." Our ultimate goal is to distribute these as free pamphlets for reading in social justice centres and other political organizing spaces throughout Nairobi (and maybe throughout the country)! However, in order to fund a big print run, we are selling bound copies of this book at 800 KES. Please buy some copies and help us raise money to print hundreds more to give away! You can find them at Cheche Bookshop. Some of you who have already sent money can pick up your copies there anytime.Police violence is one of the oldest stories of Nairobi. Although many are shocked by the open violence unleashed by the Ruto and Sakaja administrations on the streets of Nairobi — goons given permission to wreak havoc and uniformed officers executing people in broad daylight — brutality is always how informal settlements have been governed. For this reason, people's movements in the ghetto have long been the front-line fighters of the war against police violence, documenting and following up on cases long after media fanfare fades. What are the lessons that can be drawn from their work? How can others stand in solidarity with these movements? How is the fight against police violence actually a fight for a bigger kind of freedom?

Send us a textAuthor and Advocate Ted Neill joins the show to share his powerful journey from working at a home for orphans in Nairobi, Kenya, and then in human services, to becoming a full-time author of nearly 30 books! We explore his middle-grade book series that celebrates disabilities through young superheroes, as well as his advocacy work amplifying the voices of children he once cared for, who are now grown. Ted's BioGlobetrotter and writer Ted Neill has worked on five continents as an educator, health professional, and journalist. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Recovery Today, and he has published a number of novels exploring issues related to science, religion, class, and social justice. He is the 2013 winner of the Martin Luther King Jr. Torch of Peace Award. His 2017 novel, The Selah Branch, attempts to confront issues of racism and the divided political environment of the US today and the 1950s. His debut novel, City on a Hill, examines the fault lines of religious conflict in the Middle East. His 2019 novel, Reaper Moon, takes place against the backdrop of a global virus pandemic and explores how the aftermath unfolds along familiar social divides of race and politics. His young adult series, Snog Team Six, is a romp through global mythology, science fiction, video games, the Old West and Southeast Asia. His high-fantasy series, Elk Riders, has won numerous awards including two Kirkus starred reviews. His upcoming series, The Post Apocalyptic Space Shakespeare, will provide an updated and exciting entrée to seventeen of the bard's plays for old and new readers alike.He is also an accomplished author of nonfiction. He is the author of two memoirs about his time working at a home for orphans with HIV/AIDS in Nairobi, Kenya.Neill's passion project is his illustrated middle grade series Mystery Force. Mystery Force is a collaboration with friends in the disability community to create a series where children with disabilities are the protagonists and heroes. Mystery Force came about when Neill's friend who uses a motorized wheelchair and has a canine companion approached him and said, “There needs to me more stories where kids with disabilities can see themselves as heroic.” So, they made one.Connect with TedWebsite Check out Ted's books on his website under the "books" tab!Follow Ted on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram @therealauthortedneillTikTokStay in the loop with the new Different Ability® product I'll be launching!Sign Up Here!Shop new products here!Places you can reach me at:Website:https://kateyfortun.com/https://kateyfortun.com/podcastInstagram:https://www.instagram.com/kateyfortun/https://www.instagram.com/differentabilitypodcast/

Angola was certified as polio-free in 2015, but is now combatting a new outbreak of the disease after several cases were reported in a Western province. What has caused the virus to come back?A new report says Islamist militants are using Starlink technology to ramp up operational capabilities in Niger. And why are South Sudanese women fashion's favourites and are being sought after on the catwalk?Presenter: Audrey Brown Producers: Charles Gitonga in Nairobi. Yvette Twagiramariya, Bella Hassan and Alfonso Daniels in London Senior Producers: Patricia Whitehorne and Richard Kagoe Technical Producer: Jonathan Greer Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

Angola was certified as polio-free in 2015, but is now combating a new outbreak of the disease after several cases were reported in a Western province. What has caused the virus to come back?A new report says Islamist militants are using Starlink technology to ramp up operational capabilities in Niger. And why are South Sudanese women fashion's favourites and are being sought after on the catwalk?Presenter: Audrey Brown Producers: Charles Gitonga in Nairobi. Yvette Twagiramariya, Bella Hassan and Alfonso Daniels in London Senior Producers: Patricia Whitehorne and Richard Kagoe Technical Producer: Jonathan Greer Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

God is truly at work on the continent of Africa. Organizations like Pew and Barna Research will tell us that this one of the world's regions where Christianity is spreading and growing in the greatest numbers, not only among adults but also children and young people.It's happening through Christians like Salome, who founded a school near Nairobi, Kenya, to teach at-risk children, often part of single-parent households and influenced by violence and rebellious peers, and to point them to the hope of the Gospel. And through young people like Anne, who at one time doubted God's existence, but now is a maturing believer helping other teens to follow Jesus Christ.Join host Michael Woolworth and his guest, Jennifer Macharia, who serves with Bible League International in eastern Africa, to step into the stories of these wonderful Christians. Subscribe and invite others to listen with you. Length: 14:37.

As chatbots continue to evolve, Lesley Stahl reports from Nairobi, Kenya, on the growing market of “humans in the loop” – workers around the world who help train AI for big American tech companies. Stahl speaks with digital workers who have spent hours in front of screens teaching and improving AI, but complain of poor working conditions, low pay and undertreated psychological trauma. Correspondent Jon Wertheim journeys by boat (and winch) into the world's smallest – and unlikeliest – state: the Principality of Sealand. Just off the English coast, and roughly the landmass of two tennis courts, it boasts a full-time population of one. It was built during World War II as a nautical fort, and later repurposed as a “pirate radio” station under its monarchs, the Bates family. Wertheim takes a tour of this micronation and its history of piracy, coups, countercoups and rogues. The name Werner Herzog may not be as recognizable as Spielberg or Scorsese, but over the last six decades, the German filmmaker has had a profound and far-reaching influence on the world of cinema. He's made over 70 features and documentaries, which are often dream-like explorations of nature's power, human frailties and the edges of sanity. Correspondent Anderson Cooper sits down with the enigmatic director to discuss his films, and his other roles as writer and actor. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Wanjiru Gakuru Curator, Nairobi Litfest on #DriveOut with June and Martin by Capital FM

This week on The Long Form, I sit down with Fellaris Wambui, the popular Capital FM radio host, to unpack the shifting sands in Kenya.We discuss Kenya's economic paradox: rising metrics but deep public pessimism, and what the country might look like in the next 10 years.We also explore whether radio can survive in the age of podcasts and TikTok, the tension between going viral and telling stories that matter, and how Kenyan media can amplify women's voices while navigating financial pressures. Paid partnership with:Ntare Louisenlund International School: Go to https://ntare-louisenlund.org/ to learn how you can give your child a world-class German STEM education in Rwanda.  Waka Fitness: Go to https://waka.fitbase.rw/thelongform and get 20% off your gym membership. Offer lasts until August 2025! #FellarisWambui #TheLongFormPodcast #KenyaMedia #AfricanMedia #CapitalFMKenya #WomenInMedia #AfricaBusiness #KenyaFuture #StorytellingAfrica #PanAfricanism #AfricanPolitics #AfricanDiasporaListen to the Long Form with Sanny Ntayombya podcast on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/rw/podcast/the-long-form-with-sanny-ntayombya/id1669879621Listen to the Long Form with Sanny Ntayombya podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7HkkUi4bUyIeYktQhWOljcFollow Long Form with Sanny Ntayombya on Twitter: https://x.com/TheLongFormRwFollow Long Form with Sanny Ntayombya on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thelongformrw/Follow Long Form with Sanny Ntayombya on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@longformrwFollow Sanny Ntayombya on Twitter: https://x.com/SannyNtayombya About Long Form with Sanny Ntayombya:The Long Form with Sanny Ntayombya is a weekly podcast intent on keeping you up to date with current affairs in Rwanda. The topics discussed range from politics, business, sports to entertainment. If you want to share your thoughts on the topics I discuss use the hashtag #LongFormRw on Twitter and follow us on Twitter and Instagram on our handle @TheLongFormRwBe a part of the conversation.

How the Maasai are saving Nairobi's wildlife | Dr Joseph Ogutu by Radio Islam

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In this episode, Shamim Ehsani, co-founder of Tribe Hotel in Nairobi, shares why belonging and generosity will become hospitality's greatest competitive advantages in an increasingly AI-driven world. Shamim discusses how deepening authentic connections with local culture, prioritizing genuine guest engagement over short-term revenue, and fostering a spirit of radical generosity enable hotels to thrive amidst rapid technological change.More with Shamim: Breaking the Colonial Mold: How Kenya's Tribe Hotel Sets a New Standard for Luxury HospitalityHow Tribe Hotel's Staff Created a Guest Experience Program That Showcases the Best of KenyaCan You Scale Personalized Hospitality? Lessons from Nairobi's Tribe HotelFrom Privacy to Publicity: Hosting Royalty & A-List GuestsThis episode is hosted by our guest experience correspondent, Danica Smith, founder of MorningStar GX.  A few more resources: If you're new to Hospitality Daily, start here. You can send me a message here with questions, comments, or guest suggestions If you want to get my summary and actionable insights from each episode delivered to your inbox each day, subscribe here for free. Follow Hospitality Daily and join the conversation on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram. If you want to advertise on Hospitality Daily, here are the ways we can work together. If you found this episode interesting or helpful, send it to someone on your team so you can turn the ideas into action and benefit your business and the people you serve! Music for this show is produced by Clay Bassford of Bespoke Sound: Music Identity Design for Hospitality Brands

Hii leo jaridanitunaangazia msaada wa kibinadamu Gaza, na mauaji yaliyofanyika nchini Rwanda kati ya mwaka 1972 hadi 1973. Makala tunamulika inayochukuliwa nchini Kenya za kutekeleza haki za watu wenye ulemavu wa kutoona, na mashinani tunakwenda DRC, kulikoni?Hatimaye shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la Afya ulimwenguni, WHO limeweza kufikisha huko Gaza, eneo la Palestina linalokaliwa kimabavu na Israeli, shehena ya kwanza ya vifaa vya matibabu ikiwa ni mara ya kwanza tangu tarehe pili mwezi Machi mwaka huu.Serikali ya Burundi inataka mauaji yaliyofanyika nchini mwake kati ya mwaka 1972 hadi 1973 yatambulike kimattaifa kama ni mauaji ya kimbari dhidi ya Wahutu, je kwa nini wito huo umekuja sasa.Katika makala leo ikiwa ni Siku ya Kimataifa ya viziwi wasioona, tunamulika hatua kubwa inayochukuliwa nchini Kenya katika kuhakikisha watoto wenye ulemavu wa kuona wanapata elimu bora na jumuishi. Mafunzo maalum yaliyofanyika jijini Nairobi yalileta pamoja wataalamu, walimu na mashirika ya maendeleo, kwa lengo la kuchochea elimu hiyo kwa njia ya michezo, kwa msaada wa Shirika la LEGO kwa kushirikiana na Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la kuhudumia watoto UNICEF Kenya.Na mashinani, fursa ni yake Tom Fletcher, Mratibu wa Umoja wa mataifa wa Misaada ya kibinadamu na masuala ya dharura akihitimisha ziara yake Goma Mashariki mwa DRC amezungumza na waandishi wa habari akieleza kuwa raia wameteseka vya kutosha na ukata unawazidishia madhila”Mwenyeji wako ni Assumpta Massoi, karibu!

My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers,Once-science-fiction advancements like AI, gene editing, and advanced biotechnology have finally arrived, and they're here to stay. These technologies have seemingly set us on a course towards a brand new future for humanity, one we can hardly even picture today. But progress doesn't happen overnight, and it isn't the result of any one breakthrough.As Jamie Metzl explains in his new book, Superconvergence: How the Genetics, Biotech, and AI Revolutions will Transform our Lives, Work, and World, tech innovations work alongside and because of one another, bringing about the future right under our noses.Today on Faster, Please! — The Podcast, I chat with Metzl about how humans have been radically reshaping the world around them since their very beginning, and what the latest and most disruptive technologies mean for the not-too-distant future.Metzl is a senior fellow of the Atlantic Council and a faculty member of NextMed Health. He has previously held a series of positions in the US government, and was appointed to the World Health Organization's advisory committee on human genome editing in 2019. He is the author of several books, including two sci-fi thrillers and his international bestseller, Hacking Darwin.In This Episode* Unstoppable and unpredictable (1:54)* Normalizing the extraordinary (9:46)* Engineering intelligence (13:53)* Distrust of disruption (19:44)* Risk tolerance (24:08)* What is a “newnimal”? (13:11)* Inspired by curiosity (33:42)Below is a lightly edited transcript of our conversation. Unstoppable and unpredictable (1:54)The name of the game for all of this . . . is to ask “What are the things that we can do to increase the odds of a more positive story and decrease the odds of a more negative story?”Pethokoukis: Are you telling a story of unstoppable technological momentum or are you telling a story kind of like A Christmas Carol, of a future that could be if we do X, Y, and Z, but no guarantees?Metzl: The future of technological progress is like the past: It is unstoppable, but that doesn't mean it's predetermined. The path that we have gone over the last 12,000 years, from the domestication of crops to building our civilizations, languages, industrialization — it's a bad metaphor now, but — this train is accelerating. It's moving faster and faster, so that's not up for grabs. It is not up for grabs whether we are going to have the capacities to engineer novel intelligence and re-engineer life — we are doing both of those things now in the early days.What is up for grabs is how these revolutions will play out, and there are better and worse scenarios that we can imagine. The name of the game for all of this, the reason why I do the work that I do, why I write the books that I write, is to ask “What are the things that we can do to increase the odds of a more positive story and decrease the odds of a more negative story?”Progress has been sort of unstoppable for all that time, though, of course, fits and starts and periods of stagnation —— But when you look back at those fits and starts — the size of the Black Plague or World War II, or wiping out Berlin, and Dresden, and Tokyo, and Hiroshima, and Nagasaki — in spite of all of those things, it's one-directional. Our technologies have gotten more powerful. We've developed more capacities, greater ability to manipulate the world around us, so there will be fits and starts but, as I said, this train is moving. That's why these conversations are so important, because there's so much that we can, and I believe must, do now.There's a widely held opinion that progress over the past 50 years has been slower than people might have expected in the late 1960s, but we seem to have some technologies now for which the momentum seems pretty unstoppable.Of course, a lot of people thought, after ChatGPT came out, that superintelligence would happen within six months. That didn't happen. After CRISPR arrived, I'm sure there were lots of people who expected miracle cures right away.What makes you think that these technologies will look a lot different, and our world will look a lot different than they do right now by decade's end?They certainly will look a lot different, but there's also a lot of hype around these technologies. You use the word “superintelligence,” which is probably a good word. I don't like the words “artificial intelligence,” and I have a six-letter framing for what I believe about AGI — artificial general intelligence — and that is: AGI is BS. We have no idea what human intelligence is, if we define our own intelligence so narrowly that it's just this very narrow form of thinking and then we say, “Wow, we have these machines that are mining the entirety of digitized human cultural history, and wow, they're so brilliant, they can write poems — poems in languages that our ancestors have invented based on the work of humans.” So we humans need to be very careful not to belittle ourselves.But we're already seeing, across the board, if you say, “Is CRISPR on its own going to fundamentally transform all of life?” The answer to that is absolutely no. My last book was about genetic engineering. If genetic engineering is a pie, genome editing is a slice and CRISPR is just a tiny little sliver of that slice. But the reason why my new book is called Superconvergence, the entire thesis is that all of these technologies inspire, and influence, and are embedded in each other. We had the agricultural revolution 12,000 years ago, as I mentioned. That's what led to these other innovations like civilization, like writing, and then the ancient writing codes are the foundation of computer codes which underpin our machine learning and AI systems that are allowing us to unlock secrets of the natural world.People are imagining that AI equals ChatGPT, but that's really not the case (AI equals ChatGPT like electricity equals the power station). The story of AI is empowering us to do all of these other things. As a general-purpose technology, already AI is developing the capacity to help us just do basic things faster. Computer coding is the archetypal example of that. Over the last couple of years, the speed of coding has improved by about 50 percent for the most advanced human coders, and as we code, our coding algorithms are learning about the process of coding. We're just laying a foundation for all of these other things.That's what I call “boring AI.” People are imagining exciting AI, like there's a magic AI button and you just press it and AI cures cancer. That's not how it's going to work. Boring AI is going to be embedded in human resource management. It's going to be embedded just giving us a lot of capabilities to do things better, faster than we've done them before. It doesn't mean that AIs are going to replace us. There are a lot of things that humans do that machines can just do better than we are. That's why most of us aren't doing hunting, or gathering, or farming, because we developed machines and other technologies to feed us with much less human labor input, and we have used that reallocation of our time and energy to write books and invent other things. That's going to happen here.The name of the game for us humans, there's two things: One is figuring out what does it mean to be a great human and over-index on that, and two, lay the foundation so that these multiple overlapping revolutions, as they play out in multiple fields, can be governed wisely. That is the name of the game. So when people say, “Is it going to change our lives?” I think people are thinking of it in the wrong way. This shirt that I'm wearing, this same shirt five years from now, you'll say, “Well, is there AI in your shirt?” — because it doesn't look like AI — and what I'm going to say is “Yes, in the manufacturing of this thread, in the management of the supply chain, in figuring out who gets to go on vacation, when, in the company that's making these buttons.” It's all these little things. People will just call it progress. People are imagining magic AI, all of these interwoven technologies will just feel like accelerating progress, and that will just feel like life.Normalizing the extraordinary (9:46)20, 30 years ago we didn't have the internet. I think things get so normalized that this just feels like life.What you're describing is a technology that economists would call a general-purpose technology. It's a technology embedded in everything, it's everywhere in the economy, much as electricity.What you call “boring AI,” the way I think about it is: I was just reading a Wall Street Journal story about Applebee's talking about using AI for more efficient customer loyalty programs, and they would use machine vision to look at their tables to see if they were cleaned well enough between customers. That, to people, probably doesn't seem particularly science-fictional. It doesn't seem world-changing. Of course, faster growth and a more productive economy is built on those little things, but I guess I would still call those “boring AI.”What to me definitely is not boring AI is the sort of combinatorial aspect that you're talking about where you're talking about AI helping the scientific discovery process and then interweaving with other technologies in kind of the classic Paul Romer combinatorial way.I think a lot of people, if they look back at their lives 20 or 30 years ago, they would say, “Okay, more screen time, but probably pretty much the same.”I don't think they would say that. 20, 30 years ago we didn't have the internet. I think things get so normalized that this just feels like life. If you had told ourselves 30 years ago, “You're going to have access to all the world's knowledge in your pocket.” You and I are — based on appearances, although you look so youthful — roughly the same age, so you probably remember, “Hurry, it's long distance! Run down the stairs!”We live in this radical science-fiction world that has been normalized, and even the things that you are mentioning, if you see open up your newsfeed and you see that there's this been incredible innovation in cancer care, and whether it's gene therapy, or autoimmune stuff, or whatever, you're not thinking, “Oh, that was AI that did that,” because you read the thing and it's like “These researchers at University of X,” but it is AI, it is electricity, it is agriculture. It's because our ancestors learned how to plant seeds and grow plants where you're stationed and not have to do hunting and gathering that you have had this innovation that is keeping your grandmother alive for another 10 years.What you're describing is what I call “magical AI,” and that's not how it works. Some of the stuff is magical: the Jetsons stuff, and self-driving cars, these things that are just autopilot airplanes, we live in a world of magical science fiction and then whenever something shows up, we think, “Oh yeah, no big deal.” We had ChatGPT, now ChatGPT, no big deal?If you had taken your grandparents, your parents, and just said, “Hey, I'm going to put you behind a screen. You're going to have a conversation with something, with a voice, and you're going to do it for five hours,” and let's say they'd never heard of computers and it was all this pleasant voice. In the end they said, “You just had a five-hour conversation with a non-human, and it told you about everything and all of human history, and it wrote poems, and it gave you a recipe for kale mush or whatever you're eating,” you'd say, “Wow!” I think that we are living in that sci-fi world. It's going to get faster, but every innovation, we're not going to say, “Oh, AI did that.” We're just going to say, “Oh, that happened.”Engineering intelligence (13:53)I don't like the word “artificial intelligence” because artificial intelligence means “artificial human intelligence.” This is machine intelligence, which is inspired by the products of human intelligence, but it's a different form of intelligence . . .I sometimes feel in my own writing, and as I peruse the media, like I read a lot more about AI, the digital economy, information technology, and I feel like I certainly write much less about genetic engineering, biotechnology, which obviously is a key theme in your book. What am I missing right now that's happening that may seem normal five years from now, 10 years, but if I were to read about it now or understand it now, I'd think, “Well, that is kind of amazing.”My answer to that is kind of everything. As I said before, we are at the very beginning of this new era of life on earth where one species, among the billions that have ever lived, suddenly has the increasing ability to engineer novel intelligence and re-engineer life.We have evolved by the Darwinian processes of random mutation and natural selection, and we are beginning a new phase of life, a new Cambrian Revolution, where we are creating, certainly with this novel intelligence that we are birthing — I don't like the word “artificial intelligence” because artificial intelligence means “artificial human intelligence.” This is machine intelligence, which is inspired by the products of human intelligence, but it's a different form of intelligence, just like dolphin intelligence is a different form of intelligence than human intelligence, although we are related because of our common mammalian route. That's what's happening here, and our brain function is roughly the same as it's been, certainly at least for tens of thousands of years, but the AI machine intelligence is getting smarter, and we're just experiencing it.It's become so normalized that you can even ask that question. We live in a world where we have these AI systems that are just doing more and cooler stuff every day: driving cars, you talked about discoveries, we have self-driving laboratories that are increasingly autonomous. We have machines that are increasingly writing their own code. We live in a world where machine intelligence has been boxed in these kinds of places like computers, but very soon it's coming out into the world. The AI revolution, and machine-learning revolution, and the robotics revolution are going to be intersecting relatively soon in meaningful ways.AI has advanced more quickly than robotics because it hasn't had to navigate the real world like we have. That's why I'm always so mindful of not denigrating who we are and what we stand for. Four billion years of evolution is a long time. We've learned a lot along the way, so it's going to be hard to put the AI and have it out functioning in the world, interacting in this world that we have largely, but not exclusively, created.But that's all what's coming. Some specific things: 30 years from now, my guess is many people who are listening to this podcast will be fornicating regularly with robots, and it'll be totally normal and comfortable.. . . I think some people are going to be put off by that.Yeah, some people will be put off and some people will be turned on. All I'm saying is it's going to be a mix of different —Jamie, what I would like to do is be 90 years old and be able to still take long walks, be sharp, not have my knee screaming at me. That's what I would like. Can I expect that?I think this can help, but you have to decide how to behave with your personalized robot.That's what I want. I'm looking for the achievement of human suffering. Will there be a world of less human suffering?We live in that world of less human suffering! If you just look at any metric of anything, this is the best time to be alive, and it's getting better and better. . . We're living longer, we're living healthier, we're better educated, we're more informed, we have access to more and better food. This is by far the best time to be alive, and if we don't massively screw it up, and frankly, even if we do, to a certain extent, it'll continue to get better.I write about this in Superconvergence, we're moving in healthcare from our world of generalized healthcare based on population averages to precision healthcare, to predictive and preventive. In education, some of us, like myself, you have had access to great education, but not everybody has that. We're going to have access to fantastic education, personalized education everywhere for students based on their own styles of learning, and capacities, and native languages. This is a wonderful, exciting time.We're going to get all of those things that we can hope for and we're going to get a lot of things that we can't even imagine. And there are going to be very real potential dangers, and if we want to have the good story, as I keep saying, and not have the bad story, now is the time where we need to start making the real investments.Distrust of disruption (19:44)Your job is the disruption of this thing that's come before. . . stopping the advance of progress is just not one of our options.I think some people would, when they hear about all these changes, they'd think what you're telling them is “the bad story.”I just talked about fornicating with robots, it's the bad story?Yeah, some people might find that bad story. But listen, we live at an age where people have recoiled against the disruption of trade, for instance. People are very allergic to the idea of economic disruption. I think about all the debate we had over stem cell therapy back in the early 2000s, 2002. There certainly is going to be a certain contingent that, what they're going to hear what you're saying is: you're going to change what it means to be a human. You're going to change what it means to have a job. I don't know if I want all this. I'm not asking for all this.And we've seen where that pushback has greatly changed, for instance, how we trade with other nations. Are you concerned that that pushback could create regulatory or legislative obstacles to the kind of future you're talking about?All of those things, and some of that pushback, frankly, is healthy. These are fundamental changes, but those people who are pushing back are benchmarking their own lives to the world that they were born into and, in most cases, without recognizing how radical those lives already are, if the people you're talking about are hunter-gatherers in some remote place who've not gone through domestication of agriculture, and industrialization, and all of these kinds of things, that's like, wow, you're going from being this little hunter-gatherer tribe in the middle of Atlantis and all of a sudden you're going to be in a world of gene therapy and shifting trading patterns.But the people who are saying, “Well, my job as a computer programmer, as a whatever, is going to get disrupted,” your job is the disruption. Your job is the disruption of this thing that's come before. As I said at the start of our conversation, stopping the advance of progress is just not one of our options.We could do it, and societies have done it before, and they've lost their economies, they've lost their vitality. Just go to Europe, Europe is having this crisis now because for decades they saw their economy and their society, frankly, as a museum to the past where they didn't want to change, they didn't want to think about the implications of new technologies and new trends. It's why I am just back from Italy. It's wonderful, I love visiting these little farms where they're milking the goats like they've done for centuries and making cheese they've made for centuries, but their economies are shrinking with incredible rapidity where ours and the Chinese are growing.Everybody wants to hold onto the thing that they know. It's a very natural thing, and I'm not saying we should disregard those views, but the societies that have clung too tightly to the way things were tend to lose their vitality and, ultimately, their freedom. That's what you see in the war with Russia and Ukraine. Let's just say there are people in Ukraine who said, “Let's not embrace new disruptive technologies.” Their country would disappear.We live in a competitive world where you can opt out like Europe opted out solely because they lived under the US security umbrella. And now that President Trump is threatening the withdrawal of that security umbrella, Europe is being forced to race not into the future, but to race into the present.Risk tolerance (24:08). . . experts, scientists, even governments don't have any more authority to make these decisions about the future of our species than everybody else.I certainly understand that sort of analogy, and compared to Europe, we look like a far more risk-embracing kind of society. Yet I wonder how resilient that attitude — because obviously I would've said the same thing maybe in 1968 about the United States, and yet a decade later we stopped building nuclear reactors — I wonder how resilient we are to anything going wrong, like something going on with an AI system where somebody dies. Or something that looks like a cure that kills someone. Or even, there seems to be this nuclear power revival, how resilient would that be to any kind of accident? How resilient do you think are we right now to the inevitable bumps along the way?It depends on who you mean by “we.” Let's just say “we” means America because a lot of these dawns aren't the first ones. You talked about gene therapy. This is the second dawn of gene therapy. The first dawn came crashing into a halt in 1999 when a young man at the University of Pennsylvania died as a result of an error carried out by the treating physicians using what had seemed like a revolutionary gene therapy. It's the second dawn of AI after there was a lot of disappointment. There will be accidents . . .Let's just say, hypothetically, there's an accident . . . some kind of self-driving car is going to kill somebody or whatever. And let's say there's a political movement, the Luddites that is successful, and let's just say that every self-driving car in America is attacked and destroyed by mobs and that all of the companies that are making these cars are no longer able to produce or deploy those cars. That's going to be bad for self-driving cars in America — it's not going to be bad for self-driving cars. . . They're going to be developed in some other place. There are lots of societies that have lost their vitality. That's the story of every empire that we read about in history books: there was political corruption, sclerosis. That's very much an option.I'm a patriotic American and I hope America leads these revolutions as long as we can maintain our values for many, many centuries to come, but for that to happen, we need to invest in that. Part of that is investing now so that people don't feel that they are powerless victims of these trends they have no influence over.That's why all of my work is about engaging people in the conversation about how do we deploy these technologies? Because experts, scientists, even governments don't have any more authority to make these decisions about the future of our species than everybody else. What we need to do is have broad, inclusive conversations, engage people in all kinds of processes, including governance and political processes. That's why I write the books that I do. That's why I do podcast interviews like this. My Joe Rogan interviews have reached many tens of millions of people — I know you told me before that you're much bigger than Joe Rogan, so I imagine this interview will reach more than that.I'm quite aspirational.Yeah, but that's the name of the game. With my last book tour, in the same week I spoke to the top scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the seventh and eighth graders at the Solomon Schechter Hebrew Academy of New Jersey, and they asked essentially the exact same questions about the future of human genetic engineering. These are basic human questions that everybody can understand and everybody can and should play a role and have a voice in determining the big decisions and the future of our species.To what extent is the future you're talking about dependent on continued AI advances? If this is as good as it gets, does that change the outlook at all?One, there's no conceivable way that this is as good as it gets because even if the LLMs, large language models — it's not the last word on algorithms, there will be many other philosophies of algorithms, but let's just say that LLMs are the end of the road, that we've just figured out this one thing, and that's all we ever have. Just using the technologies that we have in more creative ways is going to unleash incredible progress. But it's certain that we will continue to have innovations across the field of computer science, in energy production, in algorithm development, in the ways that we have to generate and analyze massive data pools. So we don't need any more to have the revolution that's already started, but we will have more.Politics always, ultimately, can trump everything if we get it wrong. But even then, even if . . . let's just say that the United States becomes an authoritarian, totalitarian hellhole. One, there will be technological innovation like we're seeing now even in China, and two, these are decentralized technologies, so free people elsewhere — maybe it'll be Europe, maybe it'll be Africa or whatever — will deploy these technologies and use them. These are agnostic technologies. They don't have, as I said at the start, an inevitable outcome, and that's why the name of the game for us is to weave our best values into this journey.What is a “newnimal”? (30:11). . . we don't live in a state of nature, we live in a world that has been massively bio-engineered by our ancestors, and that's just the thing that we call life.When I was preparing for this interview and my research assistant was preparing, I said, “We have to have a question about bio-engineered new animals.” One, because I couldn't pronounce your name for these . . . newminals? So pronounce that name and tell me why we want these.It's a made up word, so you can pronounce it however you want. “Newnimals” is as good as anything.We already live in a world of bio-engineered animals. Go back 50,000 years, find me a dog, find me a corn that is recognizable, find me rice, find me wheat, find me a cow that looks remotely like the cow in your local dairy. We already live in that world, it's just people assume that our bioengineered world is some kind of state of nature. We already live in a world where the size of a broiler chicken has tripled over the last 70 years. What we have would have been unrecognizable to our grandparents.We are already genetically modifying animals through breeding, and now we're at the beginning of wanting to have whatever those same modifications are, whether it's producing more milk, producing more meat, living in hotter environments and not dying, or whatever it is that we're aiming for in these animals that we have for a very long time seen not as ends in themselves, but means to the alternate end of our consumption.We're now in the early stages xenotransplantation, modifying the hearts, and livers, and kidneys of pigs so they can be used for human transplantation. I met one of the women who has received — and seems to so far to be thriving — a genetically modified pig kidney. We have 110,000 people in the United States on the waiting list for transplant organs. I really want these people not just to survive, but to survive and thrive. That's another area we can grow.Right now . . . in the world, we slaughter about 93 billion land animals per year. We consume 200 million metric tons of fish. That's a lot of murder, that's a lot of risk of disease. It's a lot of deforestation and destruction of the oceans. We can already do this, but if and when we can grow bioidentical animal products at scale without having all of these negative externalities of whether it's climate change, environmental change, cruelty, deforestation, increased pandemic risk, what a wonderful thing to do!So we have these technologies and you mentioned that people are worried about them, but the reason people are worried about them is they're imagining that right now we live in some kind of unfettered state of nature and we're going to ruin it. But that's why I say we don't live in a state of nature, we live in a world that has been massively bio-engineered by our ancestors, and that's just the thing that we call life.Inspired by curiosity (33:42). . . the people who I love and most admire are the people who are just insatiably curious . . .What sort of forward thinkers, or futurists, or strategic thinkers of the past do you model yourself on, do you think are still worth reading, inspired you?Oh my God, so many, and the people who I love and most admire are the people who are just insatiably curious, who are saying, “I'm going to just look at the world, I'm going to collect data, and I know that everybody says X, but it may be true, it may not be true.” That is the entire history of science. That's Galileo, that's Charles Darwin, who just went around and said, “Hey, with an open mind, how am I going to look at the world and come up with theses?” And then he thought, “Oh s**t, this story that I'm coming up with for how life advances is fundamentally different from what everybody in my society believes and organizes their lives around.” Meaning, in my mind, that's the model, and there are so many people, and that's the great thing about being human.That's what's so exciting about this moment is that everybody has access to these super-empowered tools. We have eight billion humans, but about two billion of those people are just kind of locked out because of crappy education, and poor water sanitation, electricity. We're on the verge of having everybody who has a smartphone has the possibility of getting a world-class personalized education in their own language. How many new innovations will we have when little kids who were in slums in India, or in Pakistan, or in Nairobi, or wherever who have promise can educate themselves, and grow up and cure cancers, or invent new machines, or new algorithms. This is pretty exciting.The summary of the people from the past, they're kind of like the people in the present that I admire the most, are the people who are just insatiably curious and just learning, and now we have a real opportunity so that everybody can be their own Darwin.On sale everywhere The Conservative Futurist: How To Create the Sci-Fi World We Were PromisedMicro Reads▶ Economics* AI Hype Is Proving to Be a Solow's Paradox - Bberg Opinion* Trump Considers Naming Next Fed Chair Early in Bid to Undermine Powell - WSJ* Who Needs the G7? - PS* Advances in AI will boost productivity, living standards over time - Dallas Fed* Industrial Policy via Venture Capital - SSRN* Economic Sentiment and the Role of the Labor Market - St. Louis Fed▶ Business* AI valuations are verging on the unhinged - Economist* Nvidia shares hit record high on renewed AI optimism - FT* OpenAI, Microsoft Rift Hinges on How Smart AI Can Get - WSJ* Takeaways From Hard Fork's Interview With OpenAI's Sam Altman - NYT* Thatcher's legacy endures in Labour's industrial strategy - FT* Reddit vows to stay human to emerge a winner from artificial intelligence - FT▶ Policy/Politics* Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models - Ars* Don't Let Silicon Valley Move Fast and Break Children's Minds - NYT Opinion* Is DOGE doomed to fail? 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Katika kuadhimisha Siku ya Kimataifa ya ulemavu wa uziwi na kutoona, tunamulika hatua kubwa inayochukuliwa nchini Kenya katika kuhakikisha watoto wenye ulemavu wa kuona wanapata elimu bora na jumuishi. Mafunzo maalum yaliyofanyika jijini Nairobi yalileta pamoja wataalamu, walimu na mashirika ya maendeleo, kwa lengo la kuchochea elimu hiyo kwa njia ya michezo, kwa msaada wa Shirika la LEGO kwa kushirikiana na Shirika la Umoja wa Mataifa la kuhudumia watoto UNICEF Kenya. Sharon Jebichii na makala zaidi.

Main Street Meets the SuperCrowd: Why This Conversation MattersJen Risley, the powerhouse editor behind the Main Street Journal, joined me once again for our monthly livestream—an ongoing collaboration we've come to call Main Street Meets the SuperCrowd. These conversations are quickly becoming a cornerstone of community-building for our shared audience—readers who are hungry for smart, actionable ideas to strengthen local economies, invest with impact, and think more holistically about systems change.If you missed the livestream, let me offer a few highlights that made this session both thought-provoking and energizing.A Meeting of Minds, Not EchoesJen and I began by acknowledging how similar our respective platforms are in terms of mission and audience. But this isn't an echo chamber. Superpowers for Good and Main Street Journal approach the same problems from different angles, drawing on unique voices, frameworks, and solutions. That makes our collaboration not just refreshing, but necessary. As Jen put it, we're both “scurrying and collecting” a deep basket of ideas and stories from the grassroots—ensuring that the best thinking doesn't go unnoticed.Trade Policy Meets Local ImpactOne of the focal points of our conversation was an essay by Michael Shuman, the Publisher of the Main Street Journal, advocating for governors to consider using “negative tariffs” as a response to federal trade policy. Michael, a lawyer and economist, doesn't just write for impact—he writes with it. His provocative suggestion: states could effectively subsidize imports that benefit local economies, pushing back against protectionist tariffs that often do more harm than good.It's a bold concept, and while it drew criticism from at least one reader, we found the idea worth exploring. The critique—that tariffs protect American jobs—misses the macroeconomic reality Michael articulates so well: we simply don't manufacture like we used to. We're not bringing back a 1950s economy, no matter how much we may long for it. What we can bring back is strong worker representation, living wages, and economic dynamism—and those don't have to come from factories alone.In fact, we discussed how strong unions, not just strong industries, were the real drivers of middle-class prosperity in the postwar era. What if we had a powerful union of fast-food workers today? Imagine how that might reshape not just wages, but career pathways in the service economy.Rethinking Nonprofits: A Heated but Needed ConversationWe pivoted to another popular topic in Jen's world—a recent post arguing that nonprofits are, in many cases, the least effective vehicle for systemic social change. That headline alone sparked strong reactions, particularly among those with nonprofit roots (Jen included). But the conversation went beyond provocation.We examined the idea that nonprofits, for all their mission-driven focus, are structurally hampered by the need to chase grants and donors. This often means they spend more time fundraising than delivering on their mission. As Jen rightly pointed out, that dynamic saps not just time and energy but also local economic value.Michael's past reporting, including a 2005 Nation cover story co-authored with Marian Fuller, argues that even progressive nonprofits could do more by rethinking their business models. And we're seeing that today—especially with entities like OpenAI, which began as a nonprofit but now operates as a public benefit corporation (PBC), a structure that allows it to serve a mission while generating revenue and attracting capital.I pushed back just slightly—out of respect for the enormous good nonprofits have done. Since the time Michael and I were born, global poverty has dropped from over 50% to roughly 10%. That's not magic. That's decades of nonprofit work on health, education, and development. But when it comes to economic development—whether in Nairobi or Nebraska—it's hard to deny that mission-driven businesses may have more horsepower than nonprofits constrained by annual fundraising cycles.Return on Integrity: Why We Invest LocalWe wrapped up by talking about a post I wrote recently: “25 Reasons to Invest Through Regulated Crowdfunding for Social Change.” Jen highlighted two that especially resonated with her. First, the power of recirculating dollars within a local economy. When a dollar is spent at a locally owned business, it circulates far more than a dollar sent to a national chain or an online platform. That's not just economics—it's a theory of change.Second, Jen was struck by how regulated crowdfunding creates fertile ground for first-time investors. She herself started with a small investment—just $96—in The Super Crowd, Inc. That entry point matters. It lowers the barriers for ordinary people to participate in building the future they want to see. When investing is local, transparent, and accessible, it ceases to be the domain of Wall Street insiders and becomes a tool for anyone with $100 and a dream.She also reminded us of a phrase I like to use: return on integrity. Impact investing isn't just about profit—it's about aligning your values with your money. It's about sleeping better at night because you're helping your neighbor launch a food truck or keep a childcare center open.A Better Future with Better ToolsOne other update I shared: we've launched a new due diligence tool for paid subscribers. Jen tested it out and found it easier and faster than our earlier prompt-based tool. While it doesn't replace the full depth of a long-form analysis, it provides a meaningful synthesis of a company's Form C—highlighting deal terms, risks, and key facts that too often go overlooked. This is especially important for newcomers who may be investing in a local business for the first time.As I said during the livestream, we're continuing to refine this tool. The goal is to build something that delivers the insight of a 20-hour research process in just 5 to 10 minutes—and makes it either free or radically affordable. That's how we grow the movement.Join the MovementThat word—movement—kept surfacing throughout our conversation. This isn't just a monthly chat. It's not just two newsletters. It's part of a broader, rising effort to put capital in the hands of people building our communities—people often excluded from traditional finance.So if you haven't yet subscribed to both publications, I'll make this pitch one more time: do it. Superpowers for Good is just $5.95/month or less with an annual plan. Main Street Journal offers insights you won't find anywhere else. For the price of one streaming service, you can subscribe to both and get a stream of ideas that actually build the future.Until next month, keep investing with your values, keep amplifying local voices, and keep believing in the power of the crowd. Get full access to Superpowers for Good at www.superpowers4good.com/subscribe

In this episode, Shamim Ehsani, co-founder of Tribe Hotel in Nairobi, shares how his team thoughtfully manages hospitality for royalty and A-list celebrities. Shamim explains how anticipating guest preferences, from complete privacy to curated events with local artists and creatives, enables Tribe Hotel to deliver uniquely memorable experiences.More with Shamim: Breaking the Colonial Mold: How Kenya's Tribe Hotel Sets a New Standard for Luxury HospitalityHow Tribe Hotel's Staff Created a Guest Experience Program That Showcases the Best of KenyaCan You Scale Personalized Hospitality? Lessons from Nairobi's Tribe HotelThis episode is hosted by our guest experience correspondent, Danica Smith, founder of MorningStar GX.  A few more resources: If you're new to Hospitality Daily, start here. You can send me a message here with questions, comments, or guest suggestions If you want to get my summary and actionable insights from each episode delivered to your inbox each day, subscribe here for free. Follow Hospitality Daily and join the conversation on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram. If you want to advertise on Hospitality Daily, here are the ways we can work together. If you found this episode interesting or helpful, send it to someone on your team so you can turn the ideas into action and benefit your business and the people you serve! Music for this show is produced by Clay Bassford of Bespoke Sound: Music Identity Design for Hospitality Brands

« Mercredi noir : 9 morts et 400 blessés lors de manifestations dans 27 comtés », c'est le grand titre du Daily Nation à Nairobi. « Défiance, chaos et chagrin », soupire encore le journal. « Les jeunes sont venus commémorer la mémoire des héros tombés au combat (il y a un an), mais ils ont été accueillis par la violence », déplore pour sa part le Standard, autre quotidien kenyan. Pourtant, poursuit-il, « la protestation est l'un des derniers outils de responsabilisation en cas de défaillance des institutions. (…) La solution ne consiste pas à criminaliser les manifestations menées par les jeunes, mais à réagir à leur contenu. Cela exige une écoute de la part des détenteurs du pouvoir. » Il faut savoir que « le Kenya est un pays jeune, précise encore le Standard : les trois quarts de sa population ont moins de 35 ans. On pourrait penser que la jeunesse serait une priorité centrale des budgets et des plans gouvernementaux, mais ce n'est pas le cas. » Le ras-le-bol de la jeunesse Que s'est-il passé hier dans le pays ? « La jeunesse kényane était (donc) dans la rue, rapporte Le Monde Afrique. Nombreuse et bruyante, un an, jour pour jour, après la gigantesque manifestation au cours de laquelle des protestataires avaient envahi le Parlement pour s'opposer à la loi de finances prévoyant de sévères hausses de prix et d'impôts. Le mouvement de 2024 s'était soldé par une soixantaine de morts et environ 80 disparus, possiblement enlevés par la police, selon des organisations de défense de droits de l'homme. » Les manifestations d'hier étaient donc organisées en mémoire des victimes de l'année dernière. Mais elles ont rapidement pris une tournure politique, pointe encore Le Monde Afrique : « malgré les appels à une marche pacifique, de nombreux manifestants sont venus pour réclamer le départ du pouvoir de William Ruto, le président kényan. » En effet, « la contestation sociale et la colère n'ont fait qu'enfler dans le pays au cours de l'année écoulée. En 2024, les manifestants reprochaient au pouvoir les trop nombreuses hausses de prix : de l'essence, du pain, des serviettes hygiéniques… Un an plus tard, les mêmes accusent désormais le président kényan de dérive autoritaire et de confisquer la démocratie. » Promesses non-tenues… « Dans les cortèges, les revendications vont au-delà de la mémoire, renchérit Afrik.com. Elles portent aussi la désillusion d'une jeunesse diplômée mais sans emploi, dans un pays miné par la corruption et les promesses non tenues. (…) Les mots “Ruto must go“ (Ruto doit partir) résonnent comme un cri collectif contre un Président dont la popularité s'est effondrée. Élu en 2022 avec des promesses d'inclusion et d'emplois pour la jeunesse, William Ruto fait désormais face à un profond rejet, relève encore Afrik.com. S'il a évité toute hausse directe d'impôts dans le budget 2025, beaucoup y voient une mesure cosmétique. Les causes profondes du malaise – chômage massif, violences policières, impunité – demeurent intactes. » Justice ! Enfin, on revient au quotidien kenyan Daily Nation qui lance cette supplique en direction de William Ruto : « Monsieur le Président, mettez fin à cette anarchie ! (…) La colère, la frustration et la déception règnent dans tout le pays, car nos dirigeants ont renié leurs promesses de campagne visant à améliorer le bien-être de la population. » Certes, pointe le journal, « les manifestations doivent être pacifiques, mais la police ne doit pas non plus utiliser une force excessive contre les citoyens qui exercent leur droit constitutionnel. (…) La justice doit être rendue, mais ce même droit s'applique aux familles des manifestants qui ont perdu la vie ou qui ont été blessés l'année dernière. » Le Daily Nation proteste également contre la censure exercée par les autorités : « le gouvernement a interdit la couverture télévisée et radiophonique des manifestations et des émeutes à travers le pays. Cette interdiction constitue une violation flagrante du droit fondamental du peuple à un libre accès à l'information. La liberté de la presse est la pierre angulaire de la société libre et démocratique que ce pays a toujours défendue. »

Unterstützungsgelder des Bundes für die Landwirtschaft werden nicht überall wirkungsvoll eingesetzt, sagt die eidgenössische Finanzkontrolle EFK. Der Bund gebe pro Jahr rund 40 Millionen Franken aus für Flächen, die Landwirtschaftsbetriebe auch ohne diese Gelder schaffen würden. Weitere Themen: · Neue Studie: Seit einigen Jahren stagniert die Impfquote in vielen Ländern, in einigen ist sie sogar rückläufig. Millionen von Kindern seien deshalb durch tödliche Krankheiten gefährdet. · Kenia: Proteste in Nairobi sind eskaliert. Mehrere Menschen sind dabei gestorben, Hunderte wurden verletzt. Die Hintergründe. · Südkorea: Ein Lokführer wird neuer Arbeitsminister. Wie diese Ankündigung zur aktuellen politischen Lage im Land passt.

At least two people have been shot dead during protests in Kenya, which marks the first anniversary of deadly anti-tax demonstrations that left 60 people dead. Security forces have barricaded key roads in Nairobi and fired tear gas. Keen to avoid a repeat storming of parliament, President William Ruto has appealed to protesters not to threaten peace and stability. NATO allies agree to boost their military spending off the back of pressure from US President Donald Trump, but is Europe's defence industry ready for wartime demand? And what happens when E-sport stars call it quits? We look at life after the leaderboard in a billion-dollar industry. The latest business and finance news from around the world, on the BBC.

In this episode, Shamim Ehsani, co-founder of Tribe Hotel in Nairobi, shares insights on scaling personalized hospitality by creating operational structures and processes that enable spontaneous hospitality. More with Shamim: Breaking the Colonial Mold: How Kenya's Tribe Hotel Sets a New Standard for Luxury HospitalityHow Tribe Hotel's Staff Created a Guest Experience Program That Showcases the Best of KenyaThis episode is hosted by our guest experience correspondent, Danica Smith, founder of MorningStar GX.  A few more resources: If you're new to Hospitality Daily, start here. You can send me a message here with questions, comments, or guest suggestions If you want to get my summary and actionable insights from each episode delivered to your inbox each day, subscribe here for free. Follow Hospitality Daily and join the conversation on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram. If you want to advertise on Hospitality Daily, here are the ways we can work together. If you found this episode interesting or helpful, send it to someone on your team so you can turn the ideas into action and benefit your business and the people you serve! Music for this show is produced by Clay Bassford of Bespoke Sound: Music Identity Design for Hospitality Brands

Cross-border payments. Mobile money. Stablecoins. Crypto. Elizabeth Rossiello has lived through every cycle, not from a trading desk, but the front lines of African markets. Now, the founder of AZA Finance is selling her company to global fintech giant dLocal, a signal that the line between crypto and traditional finance is blurring fast. In this episode, she talks about: How stablecoins are powering 24/7 commerce in emerging markets Why new entrants keep failing to gain traction And how liquidity, not tech, will determine who wins this new game All that, plus the inside story of AZA's journey from a Nairobi-based Bitcoin exchange to one of the most important fintech players in Africa. Visit our website for breaking news, analysis, op-eds, articles to learn about crypto, and much more: unchainedcrypto.com Bitwise Human Rights Foundation Xapo Bank Elizabeth Rossiello, CEO and Founder of AZA Finance Previous appearance on Unchained: BitPesa's Elizabeth Rossiello on Necker Island dLocal announces intention to acquire AZA Finance to strengthen AZA Finance: dLocal announces intention to acquire AZA Finance to strengthen presence in Africa and expand capabilities Bloomberg: Uruguay's DLocal to Buy AZA Finance in Africa Push American Banker: What experienced payment execs can pass to a new generation The Startup Leap: Building A Remittance App for Africa's $1tr Market | Elizabeth Rossiello | Aza Finance Jack Zhang of Airwallex tweet saying he doesn't see “a single use case” for crypto Timestamps:

Why have some cities become places where it's easy to hop on a bike for daily transportation needs while others have languished or even been left behind? Is there some sort of magical combination of forces that separate the best cycling cities from basically everywhere else? Those are the questions asked by Cycling Cities: The Global Experience, a research project headed by Dr. Ruth Oldenziel, a Professor in The History of Technology at Eindhoven University of Technology. Nthoki Dorcas Nyamai, an Urban Development Researcher at International Planning Studies, TU Dortmund University, also joins us to talk about her research into African cities, local advocacy and cycling culture in places like Nairobi, and more. Looking far beyond the handful of Northern European cities that consume so much attention in the cycling world, the Cycling Cities project challenges us to take a bigger view of the factors that determine whether or not cities prioritize people over cars and to think beyond traffic counts or even two wheels. Ruth and Dorcas's research may surprise you. Support The War on Cars on Patreon and receive exclusive access to ad-free versions of regular episodes, Patreon-only bonus content, Discord access, invitations to live events, merch discounts and free stickers! ***Our new book, Life After Cars: Freeing Ourselves from the Tyranny of the Automobile, will be published on October 21, 2025 by Thesis, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Pre-order now.*** Tickets for our Life After Cars publication party and live show at The Bell House in Brooklyn on October 28th are now available to the general public. They're going fast, so get yours now. This episode was produced with the generous support of the Helen & William Mazer Foundation. This episode was also supported by Cleverhood. Listen to the episode for the latest discount on the best and most stylish rain gear for walking and cycling. Learn more about how an electric cargo bike can change your life and save $500 off a new bike with code WARONCARS500 at Xtracycle. SHOW NOTES Read about the Cycling Cities project and learn more about Ruth Oldenziel and Nthoki Dorcas Nyamai Here's the Guardian story about Amsterdam becoming an cycling city almost "by chance" that we mention in the episode. thewaroncars.org / lifeaftercars.com      

Flute 360 | Episode 331: "Create More, People-Please Less with Melvine Naliaka" Have you ever felt like you're saying “yes” to everyone else but “no” to yourself? Maybe you've tried juggling too many roles—educator, performer, entrepreneur—and are left feeling stretched thin and stuck in burnout. Or maybe you're craving permission to finally choose you and prioritize your creativity, but you're unsure how to say “no” without guilt. If any of that resonates, this episode was made for you. In today's heartfelt conversation, Dr. Heidi Kay Begay sits down with Nairobi-based flutist, educator, and entrepreneur Melvine Naliaka, whose story of self-discovery, faith, and resilience will inspire you deeply. Mel opens up about what it means to create space for what matters most, and how she overcame the fear of being seen as “selfish” for putting up boundaries. You'll hear her journey of teaching flute in Kenya, starting a student recorder orchestra, launching a secondhand book business, and learning how to protect her energy—all while staying true to her artistic voice. This episode is a love letter to anyone learning to say “no,” create unapologetically, and live fully aligned with their calling. Main Points: Mel's flute journey: self-taught beginnings and the courage to keep showing up Why people-pleasing leads to burnout—and how to recover from it The importance of saying “no” to others so you can say “yes” to your purpose How to juggle a full-time teaching job with a creative side business What it looks like to build your own artistic path with limited resources The surprising ways business skills can feed your growth as a musician Why relatability and imperfection are powerful tools for connection How to balance faith, boundaries, and kindness as a modern creative Don't Miss the June 28th Flute 360 Live Session! Mark your calendar! On Saturday, June 28th from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM CT, we're hosting a powerful live session inside the Flute 360 Accelerator that's designed to support your personal, artistic, and professional growth. Click here to join us! Hour One – Flute Masterclass with Dr. Heidi Kay Begay: Watch three performers receive real-time feedback and support to elevate their playing: Natalie – performing orchestral excerpts Caroline – preparing for a July performance Mel – our amazing guest from this episode! Hour Two – Holistic Mastermind with Guest Dr. Kristin Caliendo: Experience transformative coaching as three flutists work through their biggest career and mindset questions, who include Erin, Carmen & Sarah. Whether you're looking to refine your artistry, reset your mindset, or build lasting community, this session is a creative catalyst. Zoom access and all supplemental materials (book club notes, scores, and more) are available inside the Flute 360 accelerator folder. See you in the inside! Guest's Links: Instagram – @melvine_nalyaka LinkedIn – Melvine Nalyaka Follow Heidi! Follow Flute 360 via TikTok! Follow Flute 360 via Instagram! Follow Flute 360 via Twitter! Follow Flute 360 via LinkedIn! Follow Flute 360 via Facebook! Subscribe to the Flute 360's YouTube Channel! Join the Flute 360 Newsletter! Join the Flute 360 Family's Facebook Private Group! Join the Flute 360's Accelerator Program Here! TIER 1 for $37 TIER 2 for $67 TIER 3 for $97

Jacqueline, now 63 and living in Cape Town, South Africa, was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1962, following a relationship between her English-born biological mother, a professional actress on contract to a theatre company in Nairobi, and her Welsh and Irish biological father, a radio announcer in Nairobi. Following Jacqueline's birth, and the abandonment of her and her biological mother by her biological father, her biological mother followed him to Zimbabwe, but he refused involvement or responsibility. At Jacqueline's biological mother's father's "pleading" with her to "keep the baby", she returned to her acting career, subjecting Jacqueline to 16 months of severe abuse and neglect, which resulted in her being adopted at 16 months in Zimbabwe. While her physical needs were very well met within her adoptive family, her emotional needs were neglected, her manifest trauma being strictly discouraged, and the emotional abuse was perpetuated. Following a lifetime of fear/anxiety, specifically relationship-related, and recurring severe despair/depression, Jacqueline's belief, and message to fellow adoptees and healthcare professionals working with adoption-related and general childhood trauma, is this: sometimes the trauma is too early, too severe and too prolonged for healing to be possible, but the cycle of abuse can be broken. Jacqueline lives the proof that acceptance, compassion, and forgiveness are possible. She has broken the cycles of neglect and abuse, evident in her relationship with her daughter and son, with whom she has a relationship of deep love, mutual respect, and much joy and care.Season 11: Adoptee Memoirs - books in order:Practically Still a Virgin by Monica HallYou Can't Get Rid of Me by Jesse Scott and Keri AultUnspoken by Liz HarvieSign up for our mailing list to get updates and the Eventbrite for our September 12th & 13th Washington, D.C. Event!Thank you to our Patreons! Join at the $10 level and be part of our monthly ADOPTEE CAFE community. The next meeting will be on Saturday, July 12th, @ 1 PM ET.RESOURCES for Adoptees:S12F Helping AdopteesGregory Luce and Adoptees Rights LawFireside Adoptees Facebook GroupDr. Liz Debetta: Migrating Toward Wholeness MovementMoses Farrow - Trauma therapist and advocateNational Suicide Prevention Lifeline – 1-800-273-8255 OR Dial or Text 988.Unraveling Adoption with Beth SyversonAdoptees Connect with Pamela KaranovaBecause She Was Adopted by Kristal ParkeDear Amy, letters to Amy Coney Barrett. A project by Meika RoudaSupport the showTo support the show - Patreon.

In this episode, Shamim Ehsani, co-founder of Tribe Hotel in Nairobi, shares how his staff created a unique guest experience program designed to authentically showcase the best of Kenya. He explains how empowering hotel teams to introduce guests to local culture—whether through running alongside world-class marathoners, exploring Nairobi's nightlife, or connecting over Kenyan cuisine—leads to deeper, more memorable guest connections. This episode is hosted by our guest experience correspondent, Danica Smith, founder of MorningStar GX.  A few more resources: If you're new to Hospitality Daily, start here. You can send me a message here with questions, comments, or guest suggestions If you want to get my summary and actionable insights from each episode delivered to your inbox each day, subscribe here for free. Follow Hospitality Daily and join the conversation on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram. If you want to advertise on Hospitality Daily, here are the ways we can work together. If you found this episode interesting or helpful, send it to someone on your team so you can turn the ideas into action and benefit your business and the people you serve! Music for this show is produced by Clay Bassford of Bespoke Sound: Music Identity Design for Hospitality Brands

The South African city of Cape Town is one of the wealthiest cities in Africa, but it's also one of the most unequal. The city has now become the country's gang capital with more than a hundred gangs fighting for control of the lucrative drugs trade. We hear from a local journalist who grew up near one of the most volatile communities in the country, Hanover Park. Also, why the UNESCO protected town of Djenne in Mali is becoming a burden for locals.And the African diaspora community wanting to lay claim to a tiny piece of land, tucked betweeen Sudan and Egypt.Presenter: Charles Gitonga Producers: Amie Liebowitz, Yvette Twagiramariya and Nyasha Michelle in London, with Richard Kagoe in Nairobi. Technical Producer: Jonathan Greer Senior Journalist: Karnie Sharp Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

In this episode, Shamim Ehsani, co-founder of Tribe Hotel in Nairobi, shares how he's reshaping luxury hospitality by breaking away from colonial-era formality to create a more authentic, human-centered guest experience. He discusses empowering hotel teams to connect genuinely with guests, fostering inclusivity through a bold "One Planet, One Tribe" philosophy, and why true luxury lies in emotional connections rather than traditional service rituals. This episode is hosted by our guest experience correspondent, Danica Smith, founder of MorningStar GX.  A few more resources: If you're new to Hospitality Daily, start here. You can send me a message here with questions, comments, or guest suggestions If you want to get my summary and actionable insights from each episode delivered to your inbox each day, subscribe here for free. Follow Hospitality Daily and join the conversation on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram. If you want to advertise on Hospitality Daily, here are the ways we can work together. If you found this episode interesting or helpful, send it to someone on your team so you can turn the ideas into action and benefit your business and the people you serve! Music for this show is produced by Clay Bassford of Bespoke Sound: Music Identity Design for Hospitality Brands

Protestors battle with police in downtown Nairobi, condemning the death of a 31-year-old teacher and blogger who died more than a week ago while in police custody. Also, Canada and India try to rebuild their fractured relationship. And, Finland cracks down on e-scooters to address a growing number of accidents. Plus, Jewish groups gather for the First Anti-Zionist Congress in Vienna.Listen to today's Music Heard on Air. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon is severely impacting education. With widespread school closures and displacement of teachers and students. Over 200,000 students are reportedly out of school.Is China's recent offer to extend zero-tariff treatment to almost all African countries a reason to celebrate?And why Kenyan smallholder farmers went to court to fight for the right to sell indigenous seeds.Presenter:: Audrey Brown Producers: Bella Hassan in London. Blessing Aderogba in Lagos and Richard Kagoe in Nairobi. Technical Producer: Chris Kouzaris Senior Producer: Paul Bakibinga Editors: Andre Lombard and Alice Muthengi

Today, we're speaking with Arto Sivonen, an activist and strategist fighting FOR human rights and AGAINST the climate crisis.Originally from Finland, Arto divides his time between Nairobi, Bengaluru, and Helsinki as the founder and CEO of Måndag, a creative change agency. A lot is happening in Africa and on the Indian subcontinent regarding young people leading movements for change, and Arto has the pulse on these movements.I first came across Arto and his work when I saw one of his Instagram posts about organizing for Palestinian human rights in Helsinki. With statements like: "Call us a bunch of utopians, but we think positive change is unstoppable," Arto shares his radical change ideas with us.Become a Going Places member for as little as $6 a month. Visit our reimagined platform at goingplacesmedia.com to learn more.Thanks to our Founding Member: RISE Travel Institute, a nonprofit with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through travel education.What you'll learn in this episode:The tension between capitalism and activismWhat could the world of radical honesty look likeWhy ethical storytelling decenters the storytellerWhy Arto thinks East Africa, the Middle East, and India are places to be right nowTaking the global North off the pedestalClimate colonialism: sustainable tourism in the context of colonizationCan ecotourism ever be good?What's wrong with travel?Climate crisis in PolynesiaWhy Arto thinks flying is too cheapArto's life in two suitcases between India and KenyaHow land in America is connected to consumerismWhat it was like living in Nairobi and BengaluruYulia and Arto have a favorite spot they share in FinlandWhat gives Arto hopeFeatured on the show:Follow @artosivonen on InstagramLearn more about MåndagGoing Places is a reader-supported platform. Get membership perks like a monthly group call with Yulia at goingplacesmedia.com!For more BTS of this podcast follow @goingplacesmedia on Instagram and check out our videos on YouTube!Please head over to Apple Podcasts and SUBSCRIBE to the show. If you enjoy this conversation, please share it with others on social and don't forget to tag us @goingplacesmedia!And show us some love, if you have a minute, by rating Going Places or leaving us a review wherever you listen. You'll be helping us to bend the arc of algorithms towards our community — thank you!Going Places with Yulia Denisyuk is a show that sparks a better understanding of people and places near and far by fostering a space for real conversations to occur. Each week, we sit down with travelers, journalists, creators, and people living and working in destinations around the world. Hosted by Yulia Denisyuk, an award-winning travel journalist, photographer, and writer who's worked with National Geographic, The New York Times, BBC Travel, and more. Learn...

I had the pleasure of sitting down with my friend and former student, Katy Troyer, the Executive Director of the KGSA Foundation — the U.S.-based fundraising arm for the Kibera Girls Soccer Academy in Nairobi, Kenya.We talked about what it's really like to raise money for a cause that's thousands of miles away, how the international development sector is shifting due to major funding cuts, and why community and storytelling are more important than ever.Katy shares how she's built a passionate donor base across the U.S., the power of immersive donor trips to Kenya (yes, they played soccer and got beat 11–2), and what it takes to keep donors close when you can't invite them to see the work in person.If you're leading an international nonprofit or just trying to deepen donor engagement, this is one to listen to. Katy is smart, strategic, and deeply committed to empowering girls through education.Important Links:KGSA: https://kgsafoundation.org/ Katy's LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katy-troyer-5a84a810?trk=people-guest_people_search-card  Upcoming Events: https://www.rheawong.com/events/ My Big Ask Gifts Program: https://go.rheawong.com/big-ask-gifts-program My Book, Get That Money Honey: https://go.rheawong.com/get-that-money-honey My Newsletter: https://www.rheawong.com/