Comments on: Displaced African Review: You Deserve to Feel Good by “Coach” Caroline Jalango

By: Displaced African Review:Personal Development for Smart People by Steve Pavlina - The Displaced African

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:26:15 +0000

[...] got Coach Caroline on the phone with me and we had a freewheeling discussion about the impact the book had on both of [...]

By: My 60 Minutes with the Largest Personal Development Blogger On Earth, Steve Pavlina - The Displaced African

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:15:50 +0000

[...] I release my review of Steve’s book, which I worked on, together with Coach Caroline. However, today, why not focus on the main man [...]

By: African Man Worth Looking Up To:Derrick Ashong » The Displaced African

African Man Worth Looking Up To:Derrick Ashong » The Displaced African — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:51:48 +0000

[...] I wrote about Coach Carol’s book, one of the things that came up was the fact that there aren’t that many people for the [...]

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:20:37 +0000

@acolyte: I don’t know about yourself, but I never had a man take me out sit me down and just talk to me about life and how best to handle it. All I remember is older men sneering at me and telling me what they think I should do because they do it a.k.a. they were just talking to me so they could brag and make me feel like their inferior.
I have also been blessed through my life with great supportive friends, and I think I will never ever take that for granted now. I guess that’s something else worth exploring and blogging about: how to find, maintain and support great friends….it took losing some on my part to realize it’s a skill.
However, where are our heroes, our demagogues, our inspirations, our teachers?
Lol! This discussion of the girl child reminds me of the post that M did on aid and poverty eradication: http://www.thinkersroom.com/blog/2006/02/get-real-poverty-eradication-101/

By: acolyte

acolyte — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:06:57 +0000

I do agree that men should support each other more. In Kenya I did have a good clique of male friends but out here it is so much harder to have friends period, male or female but I do have more female friends out here.
But yes in many ways the boy child has been left eating dust in Kenya. That has been happening world wide and it has been contributing to the rot in society. Look at black males in the USA? Look at the louts in the UK? But its going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.

By: Mwangi

Mwangi — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:39:21 +0000

@mamashady: Couldn’t agree more. Speaking for myself, I recall NO male role models growing up, all the people I admired were women. I didn’t begin to acquire respect for African men until I was out of my teens. Definitely a worth while subject for a post, me thinks, perhaps inspire the next great African author.
Btw, please feel free to post up what you wanted to say on the topic either here or on your own blog, would love to hear it.

By: mamashady

mamashady — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:26:19 +0000

hmm, sounds interesting. Was talking to a friend yesterday and we ended up talking about the way focus on the girl child and/or woman, though greatly needed, has left the boy child/man unattended to.In addition to that i know sooo many guys whose closest circle of friends is all female.I could go into a blog post here on my feelings on the matter(I wont;). But yeah, more than needing books written about life experiences, we need men to actively stand in the gap for their fellow men in Kenya. building them up, good advice, support, not making it an ego thing…