KENYA’S SUCCESSION POLITICS AND THE THREAT OF RENEWED VIOLENCE, echoes from zimbabwe

Thank you to Mutuma Ruteere for his editorial. Only a few names and phrases need to be changed to make this an editorial about Zimbabwe. It exposes the same failure of leadership, promoting greed, corruption and human rights abuses instead of economic and social development - leading to the same disastrous results for the majority of the people.

During the 60's to the 80's, the OAU was consistent in assisting liberation movements to create international networks to help them in their struggles against colonial occupation and racism. Surely it would be naive to hope that the new African Union would become a force to assist people to resist the oppression of their own fraudulently elected governments. We have only ourselves to rely on. Are we developing joint strategies, or are we all struggling on our own?