Arjen Westra’s African Weblog

Please listen to the roughly edited audio i recorded this afternoon. For pictures: see below.

Have a pleasant evening!

The morning was quiet in Nairobi. This afternoon i visited the informal settlements Mathare and Kibera. Police was around and Mathare seemed realtively quiet. Downtown Nairobi though there were pockets of rioting youth. They were dispersed by special police forces that used teargas. Less than an hour later, I witnessed singing youth who were challenging the police in the informal settlement Kibera. Police went in (that is the moment you hear on the audiofile). Minutes later, it seemed back to ‘normal’, as far as i can use that word in this extraordinary days for Kenya. Observation: more journalists around than common people. The riots will be in the media much bigger than they were.

This morning, I went around with my Marantz PMD 620 and asked some Narobians what they would do….

1. If they would be ODM-leader Raila Odinga and…
2. If they would be PNU-leader and president Mwai Kibaki

It’s a rough draft, please enjoy the interesting views…