For those of you who understand Swedish and want to hear some Kenyan ranting on Sveriges Radio, please go to the Konflikt page and tell me what it is being said other than the parts in English. Same applies to this much shorter interview also in Swedish.
Kenya still burning
Have pasted in four opinion pieces below that have run in the East African and elsewhere in the last month. Trying to restart blogging but my brain feels leaden and uncooperative.
Generation Disaster
This opinion originally run in the East Africa on January 28, 2008 under the title,
‘The problem with Kenya’s politics is the old guard‘
The next revolution in Kenya will not be a violent one, contrary to the bloodletting presently underway. Rather it will be the rejection of the generation of men from whom the leaders of [...]
Kenya can avoid years of civil strife by sharing power
Kenya can avoid years of civil strife by sharing power
(This editorial originally run in the East African on January 21, 2008)
There is no great mystery about what the future has in store for Kenya.
Other nations, too, have trodden the path of contested electoral outcomes, the formation of winner-takes-all governments, mass protests, mass violence, civil war [...]
A country created by grand theft, ruled by a clique
A country created by grand theft, ruled by a clique
(Originally printed in the East African on January 14, 2008)
Robbery has thrived in Kenya for many decades now. The very creation of Kenya a century ago was an act of grand theft. Our country won its independence but has never broken free from the idea that [...]
Ethnic strife: How Kenya’s politics was tribalised
This piece appeared in the East African in the second week of January 7, 2008 as Kenya continued to burn.
Ethnic strife: How Kenya’s politics was tribalised
It is Friday, December January 4. I walk through the lobby of the Serena Hotel in Nairobi. Packs of politicians and their entourages hurry past. Most have mobile phones into [...]
Kenya is burning
Everyone reading this blog must know that Kenya is aflame. We have burnt churches with dozens trapped in them, we have seen a peaceful election with the highest turnout in our history end as farce and the number of displaced citizens has risen to more than 100,000. I wrote a piece last [...]