By way of introduction

My name is Joseph Warungu.

By day I'm the Editor of the BBC's daily flagship news and current affairs programmes for Africa - Network Africa and Focus on Africa and the Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly BBC Focus on Africa magazine.

A proper, responsible and respectable job.

By night I'm the unseen chair of the Revolutionary Africa Command Stool, RACS. A mad, sensitive and highly sensational job.

The RACS is a mobile, amorphous vehicle orbiting somewhere over the African skies. For security reasons I can't tell you the exact location.

But I can tell you that the vehicle is equipped with more sophisticated monitoring and evaluating gadgets than Air Force One.

The RACS is served by millions of unseen agents of a better Africa who send regular intelligence on the activities on the continent.

The RACS deciphers, translates, analyses and publishes this information via this blog.

The Revolutionary Africa Command Stool is not to be confused with the inferior Africa Command Centre run by a bunch of Americans somewhere in Africa.

Like a proper traditional African stool, RACS is founded on three legs: people, ideas and money.

From aboard the RACS where I have a commanding view of Africa, I monitor, follow and question any significant or suspicious movements of people, ideas and money on the continent.

The mission

Each week I will be blogging about any such movements that catch my eye, ear or irritate my nose and hands.

To avoid duplicating ourselves my competitor, the US Africa Command Centre has agreed to restrict its activities to chasing a bunch of panting and sweaty guys running around with UO's in their hands - that's unexploded ordnance.

I in turn will have an unobstructed view of the heavily suited, pot-bellied occupants of air-conditioned offices who launch Africa's hard-earned capital into outer space; fire off poisonous ideas in the name of development and frequently place the wrong people in the right places, or the wrong people in the wrong places or the right people in the graves.

Welcome to Warungu's Africa.

If this sounds too scary for you, there's a more balanced view of the continent at: bbcworldservice.com/africa