My Thoughts

The International community has supported and fronted the new framework to peace building which is the Responsibility to Protect. The prevention of genocides and several other crimes against humanity through joint effort. In letter, this is an exemplary goal with a Westernised print out. I do not intend to exclude the African input to the international community setting but the failure of the procedure initiates a –who is the actual owner of it- thought. It is then that I will be able to compare and contrast, between the sponsoring faction and the silent owner. Kwame Nkrumah spearheaded African liberation from colonialism, Malcom X and Martin Luther King were at the centre of the battle abroad. The old black guy was married to the people and the ideal of freedom. What aroused this enthusiasm was actually the responsibility to protect, in an old capsule. Kwame reminded us of the power of a united Africa that our priorities subscribed to, rather than the state formula. We got a charm lat...

The Trappings of Succession The headlines, the bulletins and front pages of the media outlets describe a worrying trend in Kenya’s political display. The basis for ally or foe in the political context is ideologies, values and the influence of visions. Kenya’s rhetoric is far from that. The thumbscrew has been the craving, anxiety and plans of succession. Development has both economic and political timings. The performance of an economy could be understood and interpreted with ease, but political processes that favour development have an ingenious way of avoiding clarity. The contemporary trends have explicit and implicit mergers, both at the national and county level. Parties have cropped up, with plans to gather bargaining power and some have disintegrated as ploys to amass political power play out. Machiavelli, a political scholar described the balance between the nobility and the people in a constitutional principality. Mobilization and demobilization of both sides is based on the ...