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Bulb Records’ Pete Larson reemerges in Kenya with a renewed purpose… to help document and preserve the Nyatiti

By Mark | June 27, 2017

My old friend and former bandmate, Pete Larson, moved to Kenya a few years back to oversee a number of public health related research projects. And, while there, he fell in love with the country’s culture and music. Now, like a good academic, he’s doing his best to document and preserve what he can, starting […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized | Also tagged academic research, Africa, Barack Obama, Biggie Smalls, Boaz Jagingo, Bulb Records, Colin Crowley, cultural traditions, curses, Dagoretti Records, Dave Sharp, Dodo, drinking, Egypt, erections, folks songs, goat brain soup, Greece, Hillary Clinton, hip hop, impotence, iron roofs, Japan, Kaboge Chagala, Kenge Kenge Sound System, Kenya, Kenyatta University, Kikuyu, Lake Victoria, Luo, lyre, musical instruments, Nairobi University, Ndio Sasa, Nyatiti, Nyatiti Stories, Obokano, Oduor Nyagweno, Oduor Nyagweno and the Nyatiti Attack, Orutu, Peter Larson, poetry, praise songs, rap, rap battles, Rapasa, sex, shamisen, Siaya, Sick Trees, stringed instruments, Swahili, Tomo Tsukahara, tribalism, Tupac, vernacular, violin, witchcraft, world music | 9 Comments

Announcing “Six Pack Songs Vol. 1” by Pete Larson

By Mark | May 10, 2016

A few days ago, I told you that my old friend and former bandmate, Dr. Peter Larson, had announced that he would be launching a new record label in Kenya and releasing songs that he’d written for my Ypsilanti-based AM radio show, The Saturday Six Pack. Well, it looks as though he’s kept his word. […]

Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bulb Records, Dagoretti Records, Pete Larson, Pete Larson's music as terrorism | 7 Comments

Now recruiting for Team Satan in Malawi

By Mark | August 9, 2013

A few years ago, I posted a short piece about the practice of witchcraft in the African nation of Malawi, and, as a result, every six months or so, I get a strange comment in my in-box. Here’s the most recent one. It comes from a man in Lilongwe, Malawi who wants my help “joining” […]

Posted in Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged Malawi, Metatron, Pete Larson, Q Fever, Santana, Satanism, Satanism rocks churches, terrorism | 98 Comments

Patricia Griffin on the business challenges and entrepreneurial opportunities of Africa

By Mark | April 4, 2012

About a dozen years ago now, I had an opportunity to work on a project with a young, precocious engineering undergrad at the University of Michigan by the name of Patricia Griffin. Our lives have taken us in different directions over the course of past decade, but we’ve always done a pretty good job of […]

Posted in entrepreneurism, Environment, Uncategorized | Also tagged Africa, Base of the Pyramid, bootstrapping, bribery, business philosophy, C.K. Prahalad, career decisions, cashew apples, cashews, consumerism, corruption, culture shock, doing good things with you life, drugs, EcoPost, exciting career opportunities, finance, good MBAs, iCats Fellowship, industrial operations, inspiration, international aid, Kenya, Kiva, KOMAZA, LGT Venture Philanthropy, malaria, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Maslow's self-actualization pinnacle, materialism, micro-businesses, micro-financing, Mombasa, mosquito nets, Multidisciplinary Action Plan, opportunity-sensing, Patricia Griffin, pharmaceuticals, poverty, problem-solving, resourcefulness, Ross Business School, Ross School. MBA, SACCO, savings and credit cooperatives, supply chain management, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, turning your life around, Uganda, wealth inequality | 15 Comments

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Bulb Records’ Pete Larson reemerges in Kenya with a renewed purpose… to help document and preserve the Nyatiti

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