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...looking. Modeling pageants still shun African shapes and stipulate slim hips. Add the influence of advertising and television and, "as much as a lot of people don't like to admit it, the belief that light skin is more desirable is deep-rooted," says Sameer Ambegaonkar, managing director of Kenyan advertising agency Scanad...
...chemistry of the ancient soil, that Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba lived in a well-forested environment. That's also the case with other extremely ancient hominids found during the past several years, including Ardipithecus ramidus ramidus and a species called Orrorin tugenensis, announced last December by French and Kenyan researchers. And while the ability to walk on two legs probably started out as an increasingly frequent behavior, evolution demands an explanation for why it persisted. On first blush, bipedalism just doesn't make much sense. For our earliest ancestors, it would have been slower than walking on all fours, while requiring...
...Sometimes, though, the patient gathering of intelligence and monitoring the usual suspects can be a hit-and-miss game: Wadih el Hage, one of the four men convicted of the East Africa bombings, had been under surveillance for two years before the bombings. A year before the attack, Kenyan and U.S. agents had even detained him for questioning at the Nairobi airport. And yet, according to the indictment, El Hage still managed to play a major role in organizing a bombing attack on the American embassy in Nairobi that killed 212 people...
...ceos, Makatiani is in a constant hurry to stake out an ever-larger chunk of online turf, build his company's brand and make money. He travels across Africa, to Europe or to the U.S. every other week, runs to relieve stress and grabs short-break holidays on the Kenyan coast with his wife when he can. But while he may exhibit all the attributes of turn-of-the-century Internet Man-constant enthusiasm, an infectious self confidence and a never-ending desire to look at things in a new way-Makatiani also possesses something many of his competitors...
...Africa Online began life in 1991 when Makatiani and a few Kenyan friends studying at Boston's M.I.T. built an online mailing list "so we could tell each other when we were going for dinner." Within a year more than 2,000 Kenyans around the world were mailing each other and receiving news from Kenya via a computer bought with donations from appreciative mailing list users. After finishing a degree in electrical engineering, Makatiani worked in software and as a consultant to a U.S. telecom company before a friend suggested he should turn the mailing list into a business...