Kenya's online community has become one of the most vibrant in the diaspora. From chat rooms to blogs to listserves, they are slowly reconstituting the public sphere that mainstream media is increasingly moving away from.
The Net may not be the new Herbamasian public sphere, but it is in many ways the closest we can get to recreating that elusive space.
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