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Kenya:Is it a war of Products and Markets?
Related to country: Kenya

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Kibaki and Raila may be battling it out on electoral fraud allegations; but the international world could be fighting a war between ‘Panasoanic Radio vs Panasonic Radio’, ‘Wega TV vs Vega TV,’ ‘SQNY vs SONY’ among others. Amidst the chaos, death and displacement in the name of seeking political justice, Kenyans and by extension Africans better realize that they have the responsibility of investing in institutions that will enable African individuals to parade their products to the world. Hopefully when I get back to Bukura, I will get a cheaper and long lasting “Imbako” (hand held hoe) made from Congo.

By James Shikwati


March 4, 2008 | 3:55 AM Comments  0 comments

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Kenya Crisis: Could This Be An East And West Ideological War Front?
Related to country: Kenya

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China’s silence on the Kenyan crisis has been deafening! A Chinese writer argued that “Western-style democratic theory simply isn’t suited to African conditions, but rather carries with it the root of disaster.” One of the Kenyan government hardliner, Mr. Michuki is reported to have threatened to expel Western diplomats keen on pressuring the government to engage in dialogue of the flawed electoral process. “We are just turning a blind eye, but we can one day wake up and tell them to leave the country. The government has not been defeated in maintaining order and we do not need any foreigners to tell us what to do,” He said.


March 4, 2008 | 3:51 AM Comments  0 comments

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Government of The People, by The People, for The People
About this event: GLOBAL YOUTH FORUM ON DEVELOPMENT 2008
Related to country: Kenya

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The phrase from Abraham Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg address, ‘that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth’ remains a telling reminder of the proper role, constitution, and function of government. Yet Lincoln himself was party to setting in motion a process that would increase the power of the US federal government and diminish the power of the states, so reducing America’s ‘government of the people, by the people, for the people’.

African governments have blamed the past colonial powers for many sins to divert attention away from the atrocities and other injustices they have committed against their own people. Significantly they never blame them for their greatest residual injustice to the continent’s people; that of leaving behind a deadly legacy of constitutional and government structures that have led, as night follows day, to strife, war and unnecessary deaths. The pernicious legacy the colonialists left behind was unrestrained centralised power; the kind of power they believed was needed ‘to keep the natives in line’. How could they admit to having governed in a tyrannical fashion, an admission they would have had to make, in order to, prior to departure, transform their despotic rule by creating the essential institutions of truly free societies? By Eustace Davie

When will the people have there say as they say it?


March 4, 2008 | 3:43 AM Comments  1 comments

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What happened in Kenya?
Related to country: Zimbabwe

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"We need an intelligent opposition to make democracy work in Africa – not the rah-rah noisy opposition that is only capable of waving placards and chanting “Kibaki Must Go!” and “Mugabe Must Go!”The opposition must do its home work. It must know its enemy, study its tactics and develop effective counter-strategies accordingly. If the opposition doesn’t do its home work, contests on a field that is not level and loses, it should not come out screaming “Foul, foul!” Zimbabwe holds elections in March. Do we want to see a repeat of the same old age mistakes?"

March 4, 2008 | 3:38 AM Comments  0 comments

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Devolution: Which way for Africa?
About this event: GLOBAL YOUTH FORUM ON DEVELOPMENT 2008
Related to country: Kenya

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"Should Kenya and other African countries explore devolution as a tool to bring stability and cohesion in their unitary states or shall we wait until separatism knocks on our doors?"

Many a times I ask myself, Why should an individual becomes so power hungry till it leads to bloodloss? Africa is the richest continent on the planet, yet to my surprise, many developed countries borrows almost everything from it.i.e human resource, raw materials, and even market if not "dumping site".

Devolution. Is it for Africa?

March 4, 2008 | 3:26 AM Comments  0 comments

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