October 2015 – Foreign Correspondent Margot Kiser

Snapshot from Indian Ocean – of Hearts, Minds and Shenanigans

October 20, 2015October 29, 2016Margot Kiser0

An acquaintance in Lamu gave me a pamphlet she said had been handed to passengers on a bus from Mombasa to Lamu on September 21, 2015. Perhaps not coincidentally the date marked the second anniversary of the deadly Westgate Mall attack. The group behind the leaflet, Kenya Citizen Coalition (KCC), appears to be pro-government, very […]

Mombasa Writers Conference

October 3, 2015February 21, 2016Margot Kiser0

MOMBASA – Off to an interesting start this morning: I’m in Mombasa participating in a writers conference focusing on political violence. The group consists of poets, journalists, anthropologists, historians…I was in the front in a van with some from the group en route to Swahili cultural center when a matatu (ad hoc bus) passed by […]

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