Limo Taboi

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Limo Taboi, Finance Manager of Ushahidi, Kenyan Finance and Banking guru, and blogger.

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Voice of Kibera

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Kibera is that place you see on TV when ever someone is talking about slum cities in East Africa. A sea of rusting corrugated roofs flowing out of a valley just south of Nairobi. When things go south in Kenya, they usually go south in Kibera early on. So it's naturally a place for journalist to flock when they are in town to cover anything that's wrong with East Africa. Today I went down there to meet journalist who are everything I think many of their western colleges wish they could be. Despite having minimal equipment (flip cams), infrastructure (Windows Movie Maker and borrowed internet), and little formal trainging, Voice of Kibera pushes out consistenly solid reporting from one of the most storied neighborhoods in Kenya. I have more to say about the two men above and others that I met, but it's late. I just wanted to aknowledge them and say it was an honor to shoot with them on their turf today.

Up-Country for the Vote

Today I traveled into Kenya's Rift Valley to document the climent of the voteing public as the country voted in or out a new national constitution. We traveled for hours on paved and unpaved roads to Naivasha, Gilgil, Nakuru, Njono, Elburgon, Molo, Keresoi, Ndefo, and Mauche. On days like today, when you are traveling through several different language groups with diverse political and geographic landscapes, it's so nice to have a good team. I am lucky to have such a good partners in Martin and Kennedy: my fixer/associate-producer and driver respectively. The photos bellow of me are Martin's shots. I'll be working out of Kibera tomorrow.
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Tomorrow, Kenya Decides

Just a quick video I pulled together in a few hours for the Ushahidi's Uchaguzi deployment. Very Excited about tomorrow, heading out to observe the polls and follow a monitor around.

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Ushahidi's Henry Addo and Linda Kamau keeping it extra real, 4 hours into a 20 hour code-polish extravaganza in preparation for the Uchaguzi.co.ke deployment.

I'm in Kenya this week and next, covering the vote on the new constitution. I love this place, working with the Ushahidi team is always a pleasure, it's just that I feel really guilty getting paid to do this stuff with them. It's cliche but I have to remind myself that this is my job-I'm getting paid for this. I would do this for free. Also, they have really good coffee at the *iHub_.