[New-imc] Requested Informnation from Kenya

[John Bwakali]

Proposed IMC Name (required) 	Swahealing
 	 
City 	Nairobi
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Country 	Kenya
 	 
Contact Name (required) 	John Bwakali
Email (required) 	africa at poetic.com
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Regional Focus 	; Yes
Issue Focus 	 Yes
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Critical Dates? 	 
 	 
What kind of resources can you contribute, in terms of 
server/bandwidth/technical and organizing skills? 

 	 
What kind of outreach have you done to bring together a diverse group 
of people? 
We are from different parts of Kenya. On several occasions, we 
conducted brainstorming sessions with media practitioners and ‘media 
lovers.’ These were spontaneous sessions that discussed media at the 
grassroots level. From these discussions, people and issues emerged. 
A group of approximately thirty people then met on two occasions.   
 	 
Please write an introductory statement about why you want to 
participate in the Indymedia Network (see above). 
African culture places a big emphasis on collective effort. Virtually 
all the forty-two communities of Kenya have aspects of their 
respective cultures that clearly portray this emphasis. However, this 
unity is often compromised through power struggles that stem from 
divisive tendencies like hierarchical structures. The principles of 
Indymedia outline the kernel of action oriented unity that can propel 
media into a deeper level of truth as it is and not truth as we want 
it to be. These, are the principles that have drawn us into 
Indymedia.






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