Andrea Bohnstedt
East Africa analyst/publisher/high-end gossip
27 January 2023
Aberdares/Treetops 2017
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Back in 2017, Jane Bussmann kindly took me along on her writing gig. Because I was just chatting about the elephants of the Aberdares, I wen...
03 September 2020
Shit Job, CNN: Akon City
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Two of my Facebook friends posted this CNN piece on Akon's planned Akon City in Senegal. And my goodness, this infuriated me so much tha...
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16 May 2019
Time for mandatory vasectomies
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Coffee break, so I'm attempting to have a discussion with a pro-lifer on Twitter about abortions (yeah yeah, I know). He's against...
24 November 2017
Uber Tales: The Mend-Your-Deviant-Ways One
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Still in Uber adventures: When I came back from the village hooligans yesterday evening, I made a stupid mistake. It's a beginner's ...
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Uber Tales: The Scary One
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I'm not a morning person, but this was a bit more adrenaline than I wanted or needed for 6am yoga class: The Uber driver was a bit slo...
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Dildos and Unsolicited Penis Peddling
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I manage a pretty large Facebook buy-and-sell group . In it, you can find a broad variety of things, including vitenge, mitumba, kitchen ite...
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07 July 2017
So here’s how I ended up with short hair
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It was a dark and stormy night. No, it wasn’t. It was a grey-ish day in Frankfurt. I think I was 29. Before, my hair had been various len...
13 April 2017
Looking at big things!
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I knew there were ship-shipping ships, but now I also know that there are aircraft-flying aircraft. Not whole aircraft, mind you, but rather...
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06 February 2015
Do-gooder, sub-category Christian Evangelical: Y No Poor People?
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I like US American Christian Evangelicals, I really do. I mean, not necessarily in person, but in principle: They are so very easy. This ...
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12 September 2014
Nairobi PTSD?
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After we crossed the border on the way back from Denmark, my dad left the Autobahn to look for a restaurant that he remembered from his yout...
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12 June 2014
'Africa' is a real subject, sub-category: Writing about M-PESA
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So here’s a story about M-PESA . Another one. Written by Charles Graeber for Bloomberg Businessweek: ‘I had traveled from New York to Na...
11 June 2014
Kenya Inc: Standing Solidly with Rapist Elders?
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This was an interesting (for lack of a better word) couple of weeks with corporate ethics in Kenya. A few weeks ago, in the Business Daily, ...
The Radical Notion that Women are People
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I am lucky: I have a lot of wonderful people in my life. Amongst them are my girlfriends. Most of them, all, I think, are professionals. Som...
30 April 2014
Kenya's Marriage Bill
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The Kenya Law Reports website has a useful summary of the new marriage bill here . Assuming that this is correct: Christian, Hindu an...
14 April 2014
Crowdsourcing Information: Is the Maasai Fabric Maasai?
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In a Refinery article I posted on Facebook yesterday, a checked fabric was described as 'Buffalo Plaid', and Kui L Irungu pointed ou...
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