Word: kenyan
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...office of public affairs at Middlebury College dispatched a press release to education reporters cheering the soon-to-arrive class of 2005. There's the young man who's appeared in "Scientific American Frontiers with Alan Alda," the recent Russian ?migr? who launched a successful magazine and the Kenyan-born, India-raised student who founded a nationwide human rights coalition. And finally the professional clown who toured the U.S. performing in Circus Smirkus...
...Africans, the Chinese are benefactors who send doctors and engineers and build roads, stadiums and hospitals. As I barrel down the smoothest stretch of tarmac (which was built by a Chinese firm) connecting the Kenyan capital Nairobi to Mombasa, village children greet me, with my half-Asian features, by cheering: "China road, China road." In Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, where Zheng He's ships once landed, the city's biggest sports facility is called the Chinese stadium. "It is very simple," says Zhu Xiaochuan, China's economic and commercial counselor in Nairobi, as he sips imported jasmine tea. "Africa needs...
...hospitals could no longer afford to pay the two traditional Chinese-medicine doctors a living wage. So they packed their suitcases, paid final respects at their ancestors' graves and headed to Mombasa, where they heard that just maybe a medical clinic was needed. Today, they administer acupuncture to squirming Kenyan patients, and dry homemade noodles on a clothesline in their dining room. "We have created a little China in Mombasa," says Li's wife, Ge Yuehua, as she pushes pickled cucumbers onto my dinner plate...
...will look like her," says Rose, who tends the store and does not want to give her last name for fear of a visit from the inspectors. But Kenyan women generally have such beautiful skin anyway. Why endanger it? "Whoever is beautiful has used some cream," she says. "We accept that we are beautiful, but we need to be more beautiful...
...while some of the more dangerous creams can still be found, the move is toward natural products. Manufacturers know that to win a share of the fast-growing black cosmetic business they need to emphasize safety and natural ingredients like fruit and plant extracts. "The mentality is changing," says Kenyan model Bidanya Barassa, 23, a 1998 finalist in the Face of Africa pageant, a beauty contest run by the South African TV company M-Net that showcases African models of all shades. Barassa says she has lost out in other pageants and for jobs because judges or clients prefer lighter...