Kenya | Vacancies at State House: Mood Readers wanted (m/f)

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An imaginary morning at the President of Kenya’s Office: President gets up, first thing he gets is his security briefing, especially movements that are ICC-related and CORD related, then the press clippings. He goes true with it, gets some emotions with the news, then his personal assistant comes up with today’s agenda. While walking to his vehicle with a tea-to-go in his hands, he gets briefed in more detail about the first meeting today. In the car next to him, his speech-writer talks to him about the print-out mister President
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Kenya terror | Conspiracy theories and the fun of it. Choose the one of your liking!

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Conspiracy number one (1) Kenya’s president blames the opposition for the recent attacks at the coast saying that the opposition wants to destabilize the country. I am sure he has read Aristotle’s Rhetoric, because he successfully diverts the subject from what has actually happened to Who is responsible, thus diverting the attention from your own role to someone else’s, at least thats what he thinks. A proven technic, just look at world history to find your examples. By the way: these technics were very successful on masses that did not,
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The invisible consequences of terror

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Since the Westgate attacks, Kenya has been hit by 14 terror attacks, leaving tens of Kenyan people dead and even more Kenyans wounded. Most of them are common men, women and children whose main day to day concern is how to feed their families and their loved ones. For the rest of the world, live continues after the 8 o’ clock news. For the victims, life will not easily be the same as before an attack. Admit: for most people, terror attacks is something you hear about on the television
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Matatu strike

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Interesting to see what happens when matatus go on strike, like what happened yesterday in Our Nairobi. Of course nobody is happy with it, some people get robbed in the chaos and some people even where on board of a vehicle that was stoned by colleagues. But in the end, there is always something good in bad things. Could you imagine that this would ever have happened in the Moi-years, when talking politics was already something that most people would not even think of? We are livin’ interesting times in
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