E-Commerce in KENYA: I Used Babawatoto.com and was impressed!

E-Commerce in Africa is picking up steam! at least from the activity we see!If we look at the types of businesses that are successfully dealing with the needs of Africans and the Diaspora community, we can find some which are effectively demonstrating the importance of these “kenyans abroad for kenya’s economy. There is, for example, a new generation of internationally educated Kenyan Entrepreneurs who are working at bringing Africa into the global mainstream.

One company that I came across and really liked their business model was some guys who call themselves Babawatoto ( why not mamawatoto???)  nways …. babawatoto. is an e-commerce company that allows the Kenyan Diaspora to meet the needs of their family at home without the need for money transfer services.!I Used them to send ksh 1000 SAFARICOM airtime to my folks in kenya  and I was  impressed with how fast they topped up my paros phones…with airtime… ……………

Estimates of the Kenyan Diaspora in America vary from 240,000 to 560,000 depending on the source.With Babawatoto. focusing on consumption goods and services as well as school fees, this company is tapping a lucrative market while reducing the transactional costs.

Kenyans abroad can pay school fees, provide vouchers for shopping or home utilities,transfer mobile airtime directly through the Internet. Babawatoto is targeting in on the estimated Sh70 billion remittances industry, which catapulted ahead of Kenya’s tourism sector last year.According to a study done by Monice Nyamwange of William Paterson University, 72.5 per cent of remittances are for consumption while 64.9 per cent are spent on school fees.!~!!!!  crazy if you ask me!

so primarily It looks like    Babawatoto. targets this customers with Kenyan roots all over the Diaspora and with the Families of this people in Kenya in Mind Through our website customers can order vouchers for most Kenyan supermarkets such as Nakumatt, and Uchumi, buy cellular airtime for loved ones, pay electricity bills or school fees, give culturally relevant gifts for special occasions or even buy cakes, flowers, among many other items and services which are constantly being updated..

 great E-weekend Folks!

 

Obama,Summer 08 and the City of sin (Nairobi)

 

The words of expression are endless and the tangents to use to express are innumerable.  

 Summer is ending. F**K* Hell!! Logically is the best way to think, but at times certain things transcend logic. Last night I watched  TV exclusively! After a hiatus of about 3 months from it. Don’t know why I did it, but I regret it a bit but when I really think about it not really. Don’t know why I did it. This week I don’t know what I’m getting into I hope whatever it is its fun. The summer has been great my days have been wonderful and my evenings  have been special . A deep attraction for her sprung out of me and I reckon deep attraction for me sprung out of her too. But I reckon it is not meant to be at this time, who knows about next time though. Intelligence is so sexy and she had it! 

This was an incredibly weird weekend. All said and done  Weekends are not as fun as they were last month. Summer slowly marches on towards its end and gently segues into fall. The days are shorter and nights longer. Kip  is short of his day and his nights are increased. His days were special and his nights used to be wonderful. Now does this mean that his days will be less special while his nights more wonderful? Or will the discrepancies in the day and night work themselves out into a balance of compromise? Don’t know only the continuous march of time will tell. But kip will continue to live on.

Bottled up ambitions  filling the spaces, bottled up ambitions uncorked and poured out into the flute of understanding and release. How do you think with your  pocket  when it does not exist? And how do you live realistically when your entire worldview is idealistic? As an idealist I want every African to go back to Africa and make it the greatest place on earth, but as a realist I want to avoid the struggle that will bring and instead stay here in a foreign distant land and reap the benefits others cannot. I have a white mind and a black body, Evil ways, but good intentions. I say what I mean and yet I do all that I oppose

 Folks listen and pay close attention to this song by Tamia FT Fabulous (2003)

A song is sweet when it speaks to you. Songs relate to you and her in different ways. The song may speak of love to her, but it may inspire lust in him. Wicked is it not?that one man’s meat is another woman’s vegetable. A potato is only a potato to one who has been told it is a potato. Deep thought birthed in the depths of a mind that is dastardly creative when wicked. Deep thought birthed through the soul of one who is innocent in his decadence

Could obama have been anything other than LUO? I think NOT.

He must be Luo for he is too eloquent to be Kikuyu and too classy to be Kamba. He must be Luo for he is to stylish hail from the cold slopes of Mount Kenya amongst the Embu and he is too cool to be from  amongst the Kalenjin tribe . He must be Luo because his mind is sharper than the Luyha folks that inhabit the land the white man called kakamega and mumiaa. He must be Luo for his skin has been kissed by the bright strong mid-day sun  unlike the somalis and his speech flows with the cadence of the lovely Lake from which the first man emerged unlike the Merus. He has to be Luo cause he believes  deep in his soul and shallow in his heart that he is the most amazing creation God ever created. He has to be Luo cause you know he is greater than the rest of the mijikenda folks from Mombasa.

         ****BREAKING NEWS****

 ITS TIME TO GO BACK NAIROBI AGAIN

 Last december (2007) my sojourn to the mother land was Interrupted by the mongrel called Kivuitu so this  Dec 2008, Its time to go back to the city of sin .My Folks  will enjoy sitting and talking with me and finding out how much his son has grown in the last few years. My brothers will enjoy sitting down and consuming vast amounts of alcohol together….The young gals in the city will be overjoyed at the return of the  guy called  kip  And the  nice gals at VERANDAH  will sing songs at the airport and dance little jigs of glee at the return of the  Guy  that used to buy them drinks while surreptitiously touching their private parts. Together the clubs of Nairobi will be reclaimed by us as it should be. The Kiosk owners where I used to live will be happy to get their money back and the city of Nairobi will rejoice for one tax payer  will return just as he left,  and I too will rejoice for the city of sin( Nairobi) Has alot G-Spots for the kalenjin Male.

Thats it folks  Days of toil nights of laughter.. Such is the way of the world. One can never fret to much during the period he/she calls day for he/she knows that after that period comes a time of laughter. The day is only so long and hardship is only so much!

Have Fun folks …

 

My president, My Prime Minister …

Sometimes I doubt my support for you but my deep respect for your ideals, zeal, honesty and charisma allow me to Hope that you the one and only candidate that I can have my faith on. Your smile especially when things are going okay, your sad face when things are going wrong have a human touch. You are a man that the world is finally growing to accept, your are the  Favourite of the world inspite of all the lies and propaganda broadcast about you. The world is seeing a New African, a Pan Africanist not by words but by actions.

BUT AM ANGRY AT YOU RAILA

I haven’t heard anything so far about a new constitution, and guess what? You haven’t said anythings about it either. Correct me if I’m wrong but you promised  the  people a new constitution and a clean government? All I’ve seen you  do is travel the world pointing fingers at everyone but yourself.Raila please dont forget that we havent forgotten the fact that ,  Kivuitu is still set to steer the elections 2012 Unless he Dies in office…

Raila you have really  disappointed me, and I’ve given up on Kenya. Unless the people of Kenya realise that they are suffering because of our leaders we will not see any change, so the clowns you are leading in perpetuating the vision 2030 are obviously from another galaxy.

If I could, I would sweep that joke of a government and constitution and start a fresh; without  Kibaki, and the their gangs, and hung put Kivuitu in a wood chipper and let him die a slow death. I wonder why cant you see that??

raila , as a football fan I am sure you can relate ..when i say Kenya is run more like FIFA than like a country. While other countries would elect leaders (one day event) to run the country (five years), we plan (five years) whom we will vote for (one day event). Talk of some Vision 2030!! – Reminds me of ‘Clean Water for all by the Year 2000.’

Although I am still bitter about the theft of our victory. I will move on and support you because You way better than the man Masquarading as president of kenya The MP of Nyeri , kibaki Mwai .I still believe you are still committed to the ideals that we shared before the grand theft by the above MP.

Raila ,as a parting shot.

I Write his hoping that one day you will google “The diary of one black man” and read my rants

 LUDACRIS IS MESSING UP OBAMA

That aside across the other side of the world  is a jinga called  Ludacris (kumbaffu mavi ya kuku yeye)Those lyrics will leak a good chunk of votes. Do these rap artists have functional brains, really?
This is “October surprise” served early. With the ” celebrity” tag already taking a toll, Obama’s will be a divine project, if he survives this unscathed.God have mercy of our son from alego.

Watch this New song of his..

 

I don’t think ludacris  could have been this foolish all by himself. He must have had some help.  Before the kock crows, Obama will have to deny alot of people. Some are out to destroy him.  I would not be surprised if some star comes up with a song worshipping Obama the messiah.  It fits very snugly into the GOP plan of painting Obama as a rock star moving crowds but with nothing to offer

BUT American politics is Dirty! I Thought that kenyan politicians are Nasty.. Haiii wait till I saw what Republicans are Made of ..

As we Say in Kalenjin Mi mukuleldo OBAMA. - Obama is in the Heart