Kenya is burning
January 7, 2008 7 Comments
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 October that I hate reading and that I did not believe a few days after writing it. Too pessimistic I thought. Take a look at it and let me know what you think:
http://bulletsandhoney.wordpress.com/2006/10/10/kenyas-coming-fire/
Will be back with more.
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Martin,
I went back to the said piece just after the chaos started and thought,kwani this guy is a sangoma?
Well,cant wait for your take on the current situation. Hope you are well.
Welcome back
We visited Kenya last year and fell in love with the country and its people. Visited a school and made arrangements for much needed desks to be built. Received pictures. I have kept in contact with our driver the news as of today is life is returning, but displaced people are only now getting back into their homes. I told him to have peace there must be communication. I hope the conference this Friday will work and be the beginning of a peaceful resolution. We are musicians and want to provide keyboards for the school. The school has no electricity. We are willing to take the keyboards if we can. Any suggestions? B.
Take a look at http://www.kenyascenarios.org. The route Kenya travels upon today seems to be quite well documented. The question is, why don’t we seem to appreciate the obvious? That ripping apart the country will only leave all Kenyans worse off – yes, including those who seem to be content to see it fall to bits?
Take heart in the words of one more eloquent than I:
I know you are asking today, ‘How long will it take?’ Someone is asking today, ‘How long will prejudice blind the vision of men?” I come to say to you this afternoon, however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long, because truth crushed to earth will rise again!”
“How long? Not long! Because no lie can live forever!
How long? Not long! Because you shall reap what you sow!
How long? Not long! ‘Truth forever on the scaffold, wrong forever on the throne, yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown, standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.’
“How long? Not long! Because the arch of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.
MMK, welcome back!
after you said that you were closing bullets and honey i stopped reading it and i can’t believe its been more than a year since i visited this site. Its no surprise that i’m back as your blog is permanently bookmarked on my browser! the surprise is that i “accidentally” decided today to visit your site after more than a year and without knowing of you’re return out and voila! good to have you back
so, here we are-more than a year after you wrote that piece on Kenya’s coming fire and how articulate and prophetic you were. looking back and reading through some of my comments that i wrote in response to your post, i can see i was having some sort of debate with one !alexcia! but her comments have mysteriously disappeared so i can’t quite remember what that was all about!
however, i still feel the same way now as i felt back then and even more so…i still have a dream…
Now that we have our very own war studies scholar (perhaps practitioner now also?) in you, perhaps you could disabuse me of a notion that taken root in my mind in the last few days and refused to be expunged …
I’m fed up with the current state of affairs, and the ebb and flo of fear that had become all our lot, sitting in middle-class Nairobi knowing that this ugly thing sweeping our nation is steadily coming to all our doorsteps. It occurs to me that perhaps there might be some redemption in the option of having a military government take over from civilian rule for a time (5/10 years?), restore order, ban the entire current crop of politicians from ever contesting again and essentially bring us back from the brink of the abyss before which we find ourselves. But for all I know (and I admit I don’t know much about this) the disadvantages of the militarization option probably far outweigh any possible advantages my small mind can come up with. Which is why, dear sir, I am asking to hear your opinion.