Kenya Falling - Again?
Category: Emergencies | Date: Apr 08 2008 | By: admin
As I sit smug in Shanghai on leave where I am visiting my sister-in-law and her family, I can’t help but anxiously surf the web at odd hours in the night. Kenya is back on the headlines: Breakdown in Kenya Coalition Talks writes Nick Wadhams for Time and CNN. Yesterday, there was a fresh outburst of protests and demonstrations in Kibera, the largest slum in Kenya and Kisumu my hometown and stronghold of the opposition. The slogan has changed slightly: No, Raila, no peace. No cabinet, no peace…”
It always seems much worse than it is when one is so far away from home. News has a way of doing that so I scan through one of the main Kenyan blog aggregators reaching for sense and sensibility. Zimbabwe and Kenya seem to be merging in the African cyber landscape. Mugabe lost but he isn’t going to step down so easily and Kibaki’s party, the PNU is certainly not going to give equal space to Odinga’s opposition.
And as always, only the innocent will suffer. How do we keep allowing ourselves to be ruled by despots; by people who show no consideration whatsoever for the consequences of their actions the world over? Will it ever change?
A music video is circulating the internet having been censored by the Kenyan media mob. What more can we do but sing for in pain and sadness for our homelands…
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