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In the Slums of Nairobi, the Star of Africa Fades

 
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  • Posted By: 121263 @ 02/03/2008 6:04:29 PM

    Comment: This tribalism was caused by Moi using his divide and rule tactics instead of uniting this wonderful country that could then be progressing forwards instead of sliding into this bottonless abyss fuelled by biting poverty in this most beautiful country.

  • Posted By: carnabylane @ 01/12/2008 8:56:31 AM

    Comment: The taxi driver has hit the nail on the head. Young men the world over with no work, no hope, no future are driven to violence. It is true throughout history. They are easily recruited into causes because they are made to feel they belong. The one universal truth is people need 3 things to make life worth living:
    something to do
    something to love
    something to look forward to
    without this they are aimless wanderers searching to belong.

  • Posted By: weneedtostop.com @ 01/12/2008 5:38:02 AM

    Comment: Bongobelle, I could not have said it better. People have no regard for human life anymore. The next person's life is just a level above an insect, and that human life can be squashed away in a moment's notice. This is the dangerously pititful world we live in. Hate is waste. Waste of time.

  • Posted By: Bongobelle @ 01/09/2008 1:37:02 PM

    Comment: It's the same stupid thing all over the world ..... one tribe hates the other tribe, one race tries to wipe out another - - will we never accept that there is no THEM" just "US"?

  • Posted By: jagarcia @ 01/09/2008 12:13:09 PM

    Comment: An advocate for change in Kenya, I am disturbed to see that democracy is reverting rather than going forward. I studied these people and their cultures and believe them to have the knowledge and ability to find democracy among the savages and disgruntled groups of viliantes. Keep Kenya in Prayer. Pray too that the people who know about this country will assist from the United Nations and other outside sources to stop the violence and save the innocent people of this war-torn city and countryside.

  • Posted By: thinkabout @ 01/09/2008 11:25:09 AM

    Comment: This story just seems like a cursory pass at a much more complicated issue. I'm not really concerned about Franciscan friars and such, becuase their choice to be in the country is VOLUNTARY. What of the portraits of the citizens who have NO CHOICE but to be there. And all of this business with eggs that another commenter posted is just saying simple things with an unneessary metaphor. Forget eggs and all of that. This is a perfect set-up for civil war and a destabilized Kenya doesn't do Africa (or the world) any good. Where is the UN on this one? Why wasn't a UN official interviewed for the story. Why was there not more first person perspective? We're not even examining the tip of the tip of the iceberg on this one.

  • Posted By: Milkmaid @ 01/08/2008 4:12:12 PM

    Comment: This story doesn.t paint a picture of the groups of people who are ministering to the people of Kenya who are in danger and are dying. There are American Catholic Franciscan Friars ministering to the people who are in as much danger as those who are being killed and wounded.

  • Posted By: Milkmaid @ 01/08/2008 4:07:49 PM

    Comment: This story doesn't begin to show a picture of what those who are ministering to the people in Kenya. There are Catholic Franciscan Friars in Kenya who are in as much danger as the people they are helping.

  • Posted By: Milkmaid @ 01/08/2008 4:05:21 PM

    Comment: This story doesn't begin to show a picture of what those who are ministering to the people in Kenya. There are Catholic Franciscan Friars in Kenya who are in as much danger as the people they are helping.

  • Posted By: davido @ 01/07/2008 7:51:39 AM

    Comment: The *** and the Cockerel in Kenyan Politics
    In a situation where the cockerel cannot take care of the eggs or does not want to equally distribute the said eggs to all and sundry it is the duty of the *** to show the way and if posssible take over the distribution duty. This scenrio is being replayed here in Kenya in the political arena.Mr mwai Kibaki is the cockerel and was initially given the duty of taking care of the kenyan eggs by the kenyans with the full support of Mr Raila Odinga the man who he rigged out of the just concluded but disputed general elections, and despite the good will of the Kenyana people has refused to equitably distribute the wealth. So the Kenyan people have dipatched the *** ( Raila Odinga) to try to straighten things out so that everybody can be able to reap from the common pot. Therefore, herein lies the anger and the source of the conflict because the *** can not access the eggs due to the inherent meanness of those who hsve already benefitted and still want to continue benefitting in exclution of the majority.But somehow the will of the majority will prevail no matter what. Blood or no blood.
    David Omondi

  • Posted By: davido @ 01/07/2008 7:35:35 AM

    Comment: A *** and a Hen Political sitaution in Kenya
    The *** has arrived and the cockerel has to give way. Mr Raila Odinga who single handedly helped Mr Kibaki to ascend to the Presidency in Kenya wants to have his place in the high table but the cockerel has refused to give way instead it has decide to lay flat on the freshly layed eggs by the kenyan people and would not burge one single bit, what do the kenyan people to do through Mr Raila Odinga. The cockerel as everyone knows is supposed to distribute the eggs equally to every family member yet Mr Kibaki despite all his development record has refused to equitably distribute the wealth. That is why Kenyans sent Mr Odinga to find out what is happeninig with our eggs viz wealth..So it is the duty of Mr Odinga and Kibaki to sit down and come up with a good formula of distributing these eggs. Otherwise Kenyans will continue fighting against each other until these wealth is equitable distributed to everyones satisfaction

 
 
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