School has begun in Nambale and Siaya. Our kids are back in school and a new year begins. I am so far away from them and yet they are with me every day.I see their ragged uniforms, I look down at their unshod feet, I cringe at the disease I see in their eyes and [...]
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As you know I read the op-ed pages of the Nation each day. I have been particularly vocal about the recent rash of suicides as a result of bad marks on the National Exams. But this beats any reasoning I have yet read on the subject and I just have to post the first page [...]
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Remember Francis my driver? Despite the grenades going off when last I was in Kenya, he reassured me that El Shabbab was nothing. I can’t tell whether that was wishful thinking or meant to keep my tourist dollars over there. Today I read an extremely cogent article by Ken Menkhaus of enough project.org. His best [...]
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