Kenyan Film – Something Necessary, showing in Germay
From the people that brought you Soul Boy and Nairobi Half Life, I present Something Necessary. Plot: SOMETHING NECESSARY is an intimate moment in the Read More
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Discrimination in WG-search – Kenyan shares her experience
Maryanne Oloo, a 24 year old Kenyan, biomedical engineering student in Gießen was in search of a room. On checking the local dailies and the Read More
Jimmy C attacked by Special Unit Police
Remember Jimmy C? The guy that was attacked in Berlin on New Year’s eve? (Read more here: Jimmy James of Tembo e.V. injured in a Read More
Rode on public transport with no ticket instead of the €60 fine – deportation
Ibrahim Diallo who is a friend to a well known journalist and artist Christopher Dömges aka Tork Pöttschke has been sitting at the prison in Dortmund since Read More
Germany rolling out the red carpet for its welcomed Foreigners
Some of these ideas in Germany though started with the best intentions sometimes come across as the silliest ideas ever. Let me let you in Read More
Criminal Foreigners must leave Baden-Württemberg
Click on image to enlarge NPD is running a campaign trying to get criminal foreigners to leave Baden-Württemberg. According to them in 2006, 76,000 foreigners without Read More
Sperm donors might not remain anonymous after this court ruling
For many years, sperm banks have maintained the anonymity of their “donors” as they helped couples and singles alike to reproduce without the complications of Read More
A 9 year old interracial German shares her opinion on the use of the word Neger
As a way to sensitize the public and try to be more sensitive to the growing Afro-deutsch community, the German publishers came together and decided Read More
Attending Unaccredited University can be Detrimental
In Kenya and indeed most countries in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA), private universities have mushroomed at an alarming rate. The high rate of unemployment especially among Read More
Angolan insulted and threatened with a knife in what is believed to be a racial attack
There was a racial attack again in Berlin, this time in an S-Bahnhof in Friedrichshain at around 2pm on Sunday. The two attackers approached the Read More
Anonymous Applications increase number of "foreigners" employed by 20%
Traditionally, German applications include a picture of the applicant plus information on nationality, marital status and age and for the more traditional ones include information Read More
German Politics 101
Elections are coming up soon and I thought I should offer a crash course for the readers on German politics. If you haven’t done the Read More
More than 63% of doctors in Baden-Württemberg are foreigners and the number is set to rise higher
According to a report released by the Landesärztekammer in Baden Württemberg, if the foreign doctors in that state decided to return to their countries of Read More
Is getting late for work/school forgivable when it snows? Here’s what the law says
Do you have to go to school or be on time to work when it snows? I know many asked this question when it snowed Read More
Public holidays do not count for shift workers
The Federal Labour Court in Erfurt ruled against an airport worker who was appealing against lower court decision that said he had to use up Read More
Refugees offer hope for the German Future, President Gauck said
President Gauck who in December visited the Asylum heim in Berlin and even got to meet most of the refugees and talk to them, including Read More
The diaspora and truth
There are a lot of issues we as the diaspora need to address regarding how we live our lives in the diaspora. Some I’ve heard Read More
German Government supporting Diaspora run Organizations
Migrants based in Germany who remain engaged in activities in their countries of origin are usually considered to be “avoiding” integrating into the German soceity. But Read More
‘Immigrants cause problems’ Germans say
Seventy percent of those asked said immigration made it easier for international firms to invest in Germany, while 62 percent said that immigration could ease Read More