“Ethnic cleansing in Luoland,”

“Ethnic cleansing in Luoland”, The Economist, 9 February 2008.  

 

Peace talks get nowhere as western Kenya becomes ungovernable

AS THE road approaches Kisumu, Kenya’s third-biggest city and capital of the Luos, the country’s third-biggest but angriest ethnic group, it becomes littered with rubble and burnt vehicles. A man beats at a smouldering ambulance’s number-plate with his machete. “See,” he explains, “this belongs to the government of Kenya.” Mobs cry out for their fellow Luo, Raila Odinga, to be made president of Kenya. They plead for guns. An earnest man pushes to the front of one mob. “What we are saying is give violence a second chance.”

Gikandi, “Let Moderate Voices be Heard in this Din of Hate”

Simon Gikandi, “Let moderate voices be heard in this din of hate,” Business Daily Africa, 4 January, 2008.  

 

January 04, 2007: In regard to the current crisis in Kenya, let us start by disposing off the blame game. There is too much of that to go around: A government that has failed in its obligations to uphold democratic practices and the rule of law.

An opposition for whom nothing, except the smell of power, has appeal or makes sense. A media, whose interests are closely bound with those of the political and economic elite and, in some cases, have become willing chaperones of violence and destruction.

Same-sex or “inter-racial” marriage? Take the quiz.

There is a striking similarity between the arguments used to justify anti-miscegenation laws and the arguments put forward today against gay marriage.

“Pull up your pants!”

 

“In the south Chicago suburb of Lynwood, village leaders have passed an ordinance that would levy $25 fines against anyone showing three inches or more of their underwear in public. [In Jasper South Carolina, a "proposed ordinance ... carries a maximum penalty of $500 and 30 days in jail."]