Comment & analysis

I am sure many Kenyans have noticed the group of youth that congregate on Harambee Avenue (Now rebranded Unga Avenue) everyday at 1pm with empty plates. I have heard a lot of criticism about this brave young people from several quoters.

On 30 June 1960, the great martyr Patrice Lumumba spoke toward cooperating with the very same people who chopped off hands when rubber quotas were not met, who made Africans disrespect Africans in their basic grammar and who reduced his compatriots to sitting at their feet in trolleys.

Dominique Strauss Kahn (DSK), the once powerful managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and France’s presidential hopeful, is now an alleged sex offender waiting for trial for allegedly sexually assaulting and attempting to rape a chambermaid in Sofitel Hotel in Manhattan on 14

Honoured guests, friends and colleagues,

I’ll begin by quoting Thomas Sankara, former Burkina Faso president and a very notable Pan-African theorist, assassinated at the young age of 38. He said:

With President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s return to Haiti this past March, President Obama once again landed his administration on the wrong side of history.

I’ve always feared that this day would come, when I found myself dragged as evidence into an argument against freedom. But it did. A while back, I received a request from a reporter at CNN who was preparing an article on gays and the Arab Spring.

As Kenya today celebrates Madaraka Day, yesterday’s street events, dubbed ‘Unga Revolution’, should be a reminder to the government that this phenomenon is not over.

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May 23, 2011

RE: THE LOCATION OF THE NEXT WORLD SOCIAL FORUM

To the members of the International council,

The following is my take on the booklet ‘