Kenya
- Breaking news about Eldoret.
Listen to UNICEF Radio: Fatuma, 22, reports from Kenya’s post-election conflict (2:39),
plus the fiery commentary on tribalism from Mumia Abu Jamal reporting for Free Speech Radio News (5:24).
Provocative Articles to Consider
- Read and interview with Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize laureate Wangari Maathai, an environmental activist who served in Kibaki’s government until 2005.
- For decades Kenya was the African success story, yet the election has exposed bitter divisions. Now the country is on the verge of meltdown. “How Kenya Lost Its Way”
- After a stolen election, ethnic cleansing and even the threat of civil war. How dire is the situation in Kenya?
Recommended Reading:
- FACING MOUNT KENYA by independent Kenya’s first President, Jomo Kenyatta
- NOT YET UHURU by Oginga Odinga will help readers to understand the long-standing political and ethnic conflicts that have resulted in the current conflict over the recent election. He is also the father of the current oposition leader Raila Odinga.
- KILL ME QUICK by Meja Mwangi is a naturalistic depiction of the poverty in Nairobi and the difficulties faced by city dwellers that dramatizes the economic and social conditions that have led to so much of the hope and disappointment of the ordinary people in cities around Kenya
- I WILL MARRY WHEN I WANT by Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Ngugi wa Mirii. This is the renowned play which was developed with Kikuyu actors at the Kamiriithu Cultural Centre at Limuru. It proved so powerful, especially in its use of song, that it was banned and was probably one of the factors leading to Ngugi’s detention without trial. The original Gikuyu edition went to three printings in the first three months of publication.
DEVIL ON THE CROSS by Ngugi wa Thiong’o is a novel which reveals the corruption that took place in Kenya after independence and the influence of multi-nationals in maintaining a neo-colonial situation.
WIZARD OF THE CROW is Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s most recent novel.
International Organizations
Local Organizations
The UMOJA Project and the Global Interfaith Partnership
IU-Moi Partnership
Rotary Club of Indianapolis
Ambassadors for Children
Local Experts
Fran Quigley
Carole Darst
Gilbert Nduru, Geographer-Human Ecologist at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya
James Chelang’a, Historian and Political Scientist, Moi University
Naftali Gichaba, Kenyan Association in Indianapolis
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