Kenya Imagine

• Speaking for the voiceless, speaking for Kenya

  Posted: March 13, 2008, 7:01 pm

  Kenyans have gone through a most traumatizing period over the ten weeks following the excessively flawed December 2007 elections.
  
  There is hope among many Kenyans that the recent signing of a political deal between the Raila Odinga led Orange Democratic Movement and President Kibaki's PNU marks the first step towards the realization of the, more democratic, dispensation that has eluded Kenyans for a long time.
  
  Read more from Kisemei Mutisya here.

  

  

• m-pesa

  Posted: March 13, 2008, 6:58 pm

  I watched as a queue snaked outside the Kenya Revenue Authority and banks. What a waste of precious labor time, I thought to myself.
  
  I was at the bank queueing up to withdraw money through the bank teller since the ATM was not working. There were about 30 0ther Kenyans, wasting valueable time, in the same predicament. A few hours later, I decided to use my M-PESA account and it only took less than 2 minutes.
  
  Read more from Wanjiru Kamau here.

  

  

• Legend of Creek Town

  Posted: March 13, 2008, 6:55 pm

  My all time favorite story when I was ten was Washington Irving's (Diedrich Knickerbocker) Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
  
  I had found the unabridged version of the short story in my friend Khalid Kassim's library and promptly begged (with such earnestness) for a chance to read it that the kindly man, with his graying hair at the temples and eyes the color of burning emerald told me I could keep the book, too.
  
  Read more Juliet Maruru here.

  

  

• The Mwananchi: Kenya's Official Opposition

  Posted: March 13, 2008, 6:50 pm

  To begin with, let us underscore that in the recent post polls crisis, it is the ordinary Kenyans who bore the huge brunt since no political elite fought anywhere.
  
  It was the ordinary Kenyans, in the rural areas and in the slums, who took the bullet to protect the ballot; and who are still freezing cold and starving in the numerous IDP camps. Further, it is our children who are still traumatised; it is our farms, kiosks, churches, shelters, belongings and dreams that went up in flames.
  
  Read more from George Nyangweso and Bunge la Wananchi here.

  

  

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