Pretty strong title huh? To be honest, the title makes one very small omission, the title should actually be “Why we are responsible for the riots and what we can do about it.”
200+ people are now dead in just 2 days….absolutely amazing. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Kikuyu’
Why YOU are responsible for the violence in Kenya and what YOU can do about it? (Why is there violence in Kenya after the elections part 1)
Sunday, January 6th, 2008Kibaki Wins; Who Cares?! (Part 1.5)
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
I am now feeling much better and much lighter after expressing myself on my previous post.Now after reflection here are a couple of distinctions:
1) It’s a pretty negative article; My hope is in having the contrast of hearing what I have to say when I am coming from a great place and when I am coming from a negative place you will understand me and the messages I present to you via this site a bit better.
2) Kibaki did do some good work during his term. He did a helluva lot of things wrong (more…)
Kibaki Wins; Who Cares?! What’s the alternative to the Election Results
Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Today is the last day of 2007. I have been working behind the scenes over the last month or so setting everything up so that around mid-January I can begin writing pretty much full time on this blog. I feel forced to write this post early because today is genuinely one of the saddest days of this year for me.
Now to put it in perspective, this year I have damaged a lot of relationships with people, done mean hurtful, disrespectful things that made me feel as bad as the person I hurt, I have been homeless and broke and I have been lonely and scared. None of that feels quite as heavy as what I am feeling today.
Today I feel ashamed; It’s currently 7a.m. and sometime around 2a.m. last night we watched live TV streamed directly from Kenya that bore news that Mwai Kibaki had “won” the election.
Now first of all I must confess (more…)