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Fact: Larry Madowo is the best TV journalist
simonkabz
#151 Posted : Thursday, December 28, 2017 9:11:10 AM
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FRM2011 wrote:

Below is a facebook post by a guy calling himself Richard Oduor Oduku. A brilliant mind this one.

"@Larrymadowo has been in Europe, enjoying the delights and efficiency, and it's beautiful thing following his joys, dissapointments, and surprises. But when you go to the comments, you get these guys who are like "we've lived here for 20 years and we don't post about trains everyday but you come for one day and you post every minute" and such like comments. What these little commenters forget is that to be a writer is to be a perpetual stranger, observing and writing down the little things the masses have been desensitized to experience. This attitude is also why a majority of travel literature about Africa are written by white people. These guys come, for all manner of reasons, traverse our lands and write about it. These Africans in Europe, like many Africans in Africa, lack the curiosity and desire to map their environments. They don't understand that to see, to observe, to write about, is to interpret according to one's cultural, historical, knowledge lenses. They complain about European's mislabelling, misjudgment, and (read Binyavanga Wainaina's "How to Write About Africa" for all the tropes) but are not courageous enough to use their lenses to write about their own lands or their experiences in Europe when they travel. They don't want to impose their cultural lens on Europe. They are non-participants in the global production of knowledge and will forever be oppressed by other people's lenses. They have not learnt how to challenge colonial power structures, particularly when it comes to representations. In 2018, we begin work on an important issue on travel writing in East Africa."



Beautiful post.
TULIA.........UFUNZWE!
2012
#152 Posted : Thursday, December 28, 2017 9:13:38 AM
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Angelica _ann wrote:
As people hate, he appeared on CNN last week Africa Voices focusing on the Trend!!!


He is doing well and I like the guy, he's a good guy. I think people confuse him for a journalist as the title of this thread reads. Larry is a presenter and not a journalist. He started writing his own article but I don't think that qualifies him to be a journalist. Your thoughts?

BBI will solve it
:)
maka
#153 Posted : Thursday, December 28, 2017 4:19:09 PM
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simonkabz wrote:
FRM2011 wrote:

Below is a facebook post by a guy calling himself Richard Oduor Oduku. A brilliant mind this one.

"@Larrymadowo has been in Europe, enjoying the delights and efficiency, and it's beautiful thing following his joys, dissapointments, and surprises. But when you go to the comments, you get these guys who are like "we've lived here for 20 years and we don't post about trains everyday but you come for one day and you post every minute" and such like comments. What these little commenters forget is that to be a writer is to be a perpetual stranger, observing and writing down the little things the masses have been desensitized to experience. This attitude is also why a majority of travel literature about Africa are written by white people. These guys come, for all manner of reasons, traverse our lands and write about it. These Africans in Europe, like many Africans in Africa, lack the curiosity and desire to map their environments. They don't understand that to see, to observe, to write about, is to interpret according to one's cultural, historical, knowledge lenses. They complain about European's mislabelling, misjudgment, and (read Binyavanga Wainaina's "How to Write About Africa" for all the tropes) but are not courageous enough to use their lenses to write about their own lands or their experiences in Europe when they travel. They don't want to impose their cultural lens on Europe. They are non-participants in the global production of knowledge and will forever be oppressed by other people's lenses. They have not learnt how to challenge colonial power structures, particularly when it comes to representations. In 2018, we begin work on an important issue on travel writing in East Africa."



Beautiful post.



Beautiful is an understatement... People will always hate just do your thing...
possunt quia posse videntur
KulaRaha
#154 Posted : Friday, February 09, 2018 2:15:48 PM
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Business opportunities are like buses,there's always another one coming
hardwood
#155 Posted : Friday, February 09, 2018 2:25:56 PM
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KulaRaha wrote:



The luo in him has awoken. And baba is god.
hardwood
#156 Posted : Friday, February 09, 2018 2:31:53 PM
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hardwood wrote:
KulaRaha wrote:



The luo in him has awoken. And baba is god.


Madodo should have asked CNN about what Trump thinks about them (CNN) and other fake media.
harrydre
#157 Posted : Friday, February 09, 2018 7:19:25 PM
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hardwood wrote:
hardwood wrote:
KulaRaha wrote:



The luo in him has awoken. And baba is god.


Madodo should have asked CNN about what Trump thinks about them (CNN) and other fake media.


Has he been sacked yet? How do you vomit on your employer like that. The person who feeds you?
i.am.back!!!!
obiero
#158 Posted : Friday, February 09, 2018 8:31:43 PM
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2012 wrote:
Angelica _ann wrote:
As people hate, he appeared on CNN last week Africa Voices focusing on the Trend!!!


He is doing well and I like the guy, he's a good guy. I think people confuse him for a journalist as the title of this thread reads. Larry is a presenter and not a journalist. He started writing his own article but I don't think that qualifies him to be a journalist. Your thoughts?

He is a slay king

KQ ABP 4.26
obiero
#159 Posted : Friday, February 09, 2018 8:34:11 PM
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Joined: 6/23/2009
Posts: 14,211
Location: nairobi
2012 wrote:
Angelica _ann wrote:
As people hate, he appeared on CNN last week Africa Voices focusing on the Trend!!!


He is doing well and I like the guy, he's a good guy. I think people confuse him for a journalist as the title of this thread reads. Larry is a presenter and not a journalist. He started writing his own article but I don't think that qualifies him to be a journalist. Your thoughts?

He is a slay king

KQ ABP 4.26
Angelica _ann
#160 Posted : Friday, February 09, 2018 9:02:18 PM
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Joined: 12/7/2012
Posts: 11,935
harrydre wrote:
hardwood wrote:
hardwood wrote:
KulaRaha wrote:



The luo in him has awoken. And baba is god.


Madodo should have asked CNN about what Trump thinks about them (CNN) and other fake media.


Has he been sacked yet? How do you vomit on your employer like that. The person who feeds you?


Some people are not slaves at work!!!
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins - cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later - H Geneen
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