Global Voices Online

- First things first. The Kenyan Blogs WebRing recently celebrated it's first birthday and crossed the 100 member threshold. Congratulations are in order. Here are some snippets of the amazing community that is Kenya Unlimited.

- Bankelele offers up helpful information regarding buying shares on the Kenyan stock exchange
from outside Kenya. African Bullets and Honey

- Are you in the job-hunting process and tired of the standard rejection letter script? Wg-K provides an alternative (and funny) script.

- Why did the chicken post the blog? Click here to find out…hilarious.

- Guessaurus fills us in on her love-love relationship with sleep.

- A trip to Monaco makes MMK reconsider his career options.

- AfroFeminista would just like to eat her fries in peace.

- Haidhuru has a funny post that will probably resonate with many in the diaspora…”You know you've been in the States too long when….“

- The upcoming constitutional referendum in Kenya is dominating the news. Unfortunately, Kenyans are faced with a Hobson's choice and the process has turned into an opportunity for Kenyan politicians to take their usual demagougery to new levels. Echawawa expresses his disgust with the unfolding circus.

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