Feisty woman challenges Kenya's male culture
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In a continent where men still dominate, Esther Passaris is an anomaly impossible to ignore -- and anyone who tries is likely to get an earful.
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Violence in Kenya, one of its most stable nations, shows that the continent's old ills--poverty, corruption, tribalism--are far from cured
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Kenyan environmental activist Wangari Maathai, who Wednesday became the first-ever African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, has worked for decades to protect Africa&#39;s dwindling forests.
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âStrikeâ tells the story of a tough, resilient working woman who refuses to back down from her fight with the bosses.
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Nairobi, once a favorite playground for Westerners in Africa, is spinning out of control.
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In the first of a two-part series on Wangari Maathai, Kenyaâs and Africaâs first woman Nobel Peace Prize winner, religious writer Joseph Ngala traces her humble beginnings and story of courage that is bound to offer inspiration to a world that still
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A distinctly African setting framed the award of this year&#39;s Nobel Peace Prize to the first woman from that continent to receive the prestigious honor.
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A prize-winning bikini competition contestant who claimed to represent Pakistan, sparking some outrage in the Muslim country, says she wanted to project the nation as a modern one.
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In Kenya, elections mean money. From cash to T-shirts to new roads, and the lucrative business of helping aspirants by fair means or foul, Christmas has come early in the east African nation.
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Lounging by the hotel pool in one of Kenya's storied nature reserves, Debbie Shillito sees one small advantage to the travel warnings issued after a presidential election here sparked violence.
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Pratibha Patil, who is likely to be elected Indiaâs first female president on Thursday, has faced vitriolic attacks.
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NAIROBI -- The modern, media-savvy political campaign has arrived in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Calling humanity a threat to the planet, Kenyan environmentalist Wangari Maathai urged democratic reform and an end to corporate greed after becoming the first African woman to collect the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
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Wangari Maathai started an movement that has planted 30 million trees in Africa and also has campaigned for women's rights.
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KAMACHARIA, Kenya  - Locked in a war with Kenya's police, the Mungiki criminal gang has already spread enough fear and violence to have made its name the word that is not spoken aloud in Kenya's fertile highlands.
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Lying in a hospital bed in this rural hub of Kenya's Rift Valley, a man describes surviving two machete wounds to his head and multiple slashes to his hands. He says he was attacked by people who now live by the rules of tribalism.
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The traditional clash between Ethiopia and Kenya in distance running is also a contest between competing visions of sport