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The Telephone Conversation
By Dauti Kahura
In the aftermath of the August 8, 2017 General Election, I received a telephone call from a friend two days after the peaceful elections.
"Hi K"
"Hi G"
"How are you feeling?"
"I am easy"
"Are you sure?… "Your person lost….yet again," I could immediately follow her train of thought and already detected a sense of glee underneath her controlled tone of voice. It was the voice of a victor trampling, its authority over the vanquished.
Politics is like placing a bet. "I had placed my bet and I had lost."
"We Christians believe it is God who gives people a leader," she preached. My friend is a dyed-in-the wool Catholic. The Catholic God had spoken but not before the ethnic god had had his sway.
"We Gikuyus are a proud people, we do not pretend to be what we are not," she averred. "And you know it. We do not vote for anybody else…it is not as if we are going to begin now." In other words, the Gikuyu, were considered the sui generis of Kenya.
"I am a proper Gikuyu – born and bred, I cannot pretend to be otherwise. What else can I be? You must learn to be selfish. That is just how we Gikuyus are."
The "royal we", the "We" of a blessed people, the 'we' of a special type, a selfish type in large company, a people whose great, arable, fertile land "flowed with milk and honey" was alive in her voice. But I am jumping the gun.
SEE ALSO: The Ideology of Uthamaki
"Why does Raila want this thing so much?" The question was rhetorical and disapproving. Was she implicitly suggesting that it was not in Raila's make-up and pedigree to pursue the presidency? Was she insinuating the presidency could be a preserve of a certain breed? The tacit tone in her voice implied Raila's push to be the president of Kenya was tantamount to a power grab. He was an irritant whose push needed to be stopped, once and for all.
We Gikuyus are a proud people, we do not pretend to be what we are not……. We do not vote for anybody else
She reached for local idioms to explain the negative effects of deep craving and desire followed by a brief political history of Raila Amolo Odinga.
"Yeenda muno ituaga rurira."(If it is too eager, it will snap the umbilical cord)
"Weendi munene ndukinyaga."(Great eagerness ends up in naught). Both were admonitions.
The first idiom has something to do with the birthing process. Rurira is the umbilical cord – of a cow. If the cow is too eager or impatient, to get through quickly with the birth process, it may end up dislocating the cord; in the process killing the youngling. Therefore, calmness and patience is demanded. The eagerly anticipated birth of a new life is a painful and slow process.
That Raila Odinga is impatient in his pursuit of the presidency is a sub-theme I had heard again and again, among the Gikuyu sub-nationalists. That he had exposed himself – possibly to the gods who dispense the presidency. That he has been unable to tame his unmitigated ambition. The total sum of all these "vices", bordered on avarice. And therefore, ultimately, his pursuit of the presidency is ungodly.
"I will tell you why Raila never wins the presidency…will possibly never get to be the president," she prophesised, "it is because he has been too eager – and this had ruined his chances." She hastened to add: "I know (Mwai) Kibaki also longed for the presidency and tried three times, but he did not come off hungrily wanting to be the president." I reminded her these were two different personalities with two distinct characteristics.
"Why does Raila want to be president so hard?" It was starting to sound like a soliloquy. "It cannot possibly be for a good reason. Let me tell you the (political) history I know of Raila. I was only two years old when I heard about Raila's involvement in a coup d'état. Since then, he has always wanted to be the president. What does he want to do with the presidency?"
The stream of thoughts from the other end of the call sounded concerned and perplexed over this "vexing" issue of Raila's presidency.
"Is this a person to entrust the future of the country?" I was not sure whether this was a question or statement. Or both."I voted for Uhuru Kenyatta because I can entrust my children's future with him," she affirmed. "Corruption is bad – no doubt – but we (Gikuyus) must have a leader we can feel safe with." I got the drift.
And this was the drift: Raila Odinga is not a Gikuyu. He cannot be trusted. He should not be allowed to be president. The future and security of our (read Gikuyu) children cannot be safe with Raila, the Luo. The qualification for becoming the president of Kenya to the Gikuyus was only one: the person's ancestral origin must be from Gikuyuland. Full stop.
The presidential run was not a contest of ideas. It was not about re-evaluating the performance of the government against the promises it had said it would fulfil in its 2013 manifesto. It was not about wanton theft that had been perpetrated under its glaring watch. It was not about: four and half years later, what did the government of President Uhuru have to show to the people of Kenya. No. It was about – Uhuru is a mugikuyu – that really is all it boiled down to: to anyone who considered themselves a "true" mugikuyu– educated or illiterate, rich or poor, young or old, urban or rural.
Uthamaki nduneanagwo (leadership is not given away) has been a mantra that has been gaining currency among the ultra Gikuyu nationalists in the lead up to the August 8, 2017 general election. It is as if the presidential leadership of Kenya is a sacred right among the Gikuyu people.
Why does Raila want this thing so much?"
My friend who had plenty to say paused to ponder. "I would not say Uhuru is exactly young – but he has youthful ideas," I gasped. Which of Uhuru's ideas were young and which were old? How had his "youthful ideas" had any impact in his four years as president? I was not going to pursue a moot point. But the insinuation had been made, somewhat covertly: Raila is old, he has old fashioned ideas and therefore, should not be running for presidency.
Mwai Kibaki, the third president of Kenya assumed the reigns of presidential power at the age of 72-years-old. Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, the founding president of Kenya, the father to the fourth president of Kenya, Uhuru, become president at 73 years. Those facts were unnecessary here. So, I opted not to belabour the issue of presidential age dynamics.
"What we want is peace," she cooed into the speaker. "The elections were peaceful and we need to go back to our normal lives. Raila has lost the election, let him not cause trouble." The mantra "accept and move on" had since 2013, when it was coined by The National Alliance (TNA)/United Republican Party (URP) mandarins, after the coalition had won a Supreme Court case against Coalition for Reform and Democracy (CORD) achieved a definite political parlance. In not so many words, my friend was asking Raila to "accept and move on." As indeed with the rest of his supporters.
History has a wicked sense of humour. My friend could remember Raila had ostensibly participated in the 1982 coup, but had conveniently forgotten to mention, that he had spent nearly a decade in detention? Fighting for the democratic space and a liberal political climate and culture that we all now enjoyed
How could she forget the role Raila played in Kenya's second liberation that culminated in the return to the multiparty politics in 1991? In 2002, at Uhuru Park in Nairobi, in a historic moment, Raila swung the cavernous mood of Kenyans to vote for one Mwai Kibaki, resulting in a resounding ousting of Daniel arap Moi's ancien regime that had tormented them for 24 very long years. How could she not remember this recent history?
The eminent historian E.H Carr in 1961 said: "History has been called an enormous jigsaw with a lot of missing parts." There are a lot of missing parts in my friend's political history, deliberately so, nevertheless. Of course, it is a revisionist history, which she is happy to carry along – in the full knowledge that any other history, would rock her worldview.
My friend had grown up in a village in Central Kenya. She was from Gatundu, President Uhuru's ancestral home. From a young age, she was taught that she was born into a special lineage. That she came from an ethnic community that was God-fearing and abundantly blessed. She recited to me the first stanza of a poem, that she told me her mother used to recount to them growing up.
The poem went something like this:
Ngai niaheire Gikuyu bururi mwega,
Utagaga mai kana irio kana mbura, kana ithaka
Bururi uri irima, mikuru na ithima
Kuma Kirinyaga kinya Kirimbiruri
Uthereraga iria na uki.
(God endowed the Gikuyu people with a great nation
That neither lacks water, nor food, nor rain or land
A nation blessed with mountains, valleys and wellsprings
From Kirinyaga to Kirimbiruri
That flows in milk and honey)
"I have never forgotten that narration," she proudly said. "I grew up knowing that I come from a privileged ethnic community and that we are a special breed."Unapologetically, she announced: "That is my worldview, there is really little I can do about it." In all of her 37 years, she said she was delighted to always carry that narrative with her. "I am a mugikuyu girl and that is how God willed me to be."
The presidential run was not a contest of ideas…. No. It was about – Uhuru is a mugikuyu – that really is all it boiled down to: to anyone who considered themselves a "true" mugikuyu– educated or illiterate, rich or poor, young or old, urban or rural.
Today, my friend is a proud member of a wealthy upper class, living in the suburbs of Nairobi. "To be honest, I am not one to worry about the price of milk in the supermarket," she said matter of fact. "It is not as if I plotted to be where I am. The Lord has been good. I thank him every day. What I want is peace and calm, so that I can go about my daily chores unhindered."
Projecting an innate fear of the Luos and Raila, my friend had recently taken to totting the rosary. Appropriating the Christian God, the archetypal Gikuyu has conflated his ethnic beliefs with a Jewish God who must support his political cause: he scours the Old Testament to locate chapter and verse that vindicates his political maneuvering.
The Gikuyu language has an idiomatic expression which approximates the English language maxim: "Those who pay the cost are rarely those who reap the benefits." That is a fact of life said my friend. "Some people are born to be leaders…others even struggle and suffer on behalf of other citizens, but if you are not lucky and, if God has not charted out a path for you, however hard you try, you will not make it."
It was a long phone call that made me recall Apostle Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, chapter 13:12 – "For now we see through a glass darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." King James Version (KJV).
For now, we see a blurred image in the mirror. Then we will see very clearly. Now my knowledge is incomplete. Then I will have complete knowledge as God has complete knowledge over me.
By Dauti Kahura
Mr Kahura is a freelance journalist based in Nairobi, Kenya
ELECTIONS AND VIOLENCE: The Kenyan Case
Why are elections in Kenya associated with death and tragedy? At what point in our history as nation, did bloodletting become part parcel of the Presidential and General elections?
In Kenya today, elections are synonymous with shootings, death, sorrow and destructions in some parts of the country. Kisumu and the counties of Homa Bay, Siaya and Migori, where the Luo ethnic group is dominant have become associated with police shootings and killings during and after elections. A look into the history of elections in Kenya can help us understand the triggers of these conflicts. Karl Marx said, "History repeats itself, first as tragedy and second as farce".
From 1960 to 1963 in the years leading to independence, the battleground was a contest between the two nationalist political parties, the Kenya African National Union (KANU) and the Kenya African Democratic Union (KADU), competing for the Senate, Parliamentary or Regional assembly seats. The competing political ideologies were for a Centralist Government as espoused by KANU and Majimbo (Federalism) as propounded by KADU. There were other parties too, Paul Ngei's African Peoples Party (APP) and Sir Michael Blundell's New Kenya Party but the real supremacy battle was between KANU and KADU.
In 1963, KANU consisted of the Agikuyu and Luo led by Jomo Kenyatta, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and Tom Mboya among others. KADU was led by Ronald Ngala, Daniel arap Moi, Masinde Muliro and Martin Shikuku and was composed of the Coastal peoples, the Kalenjin of the Rift Valley and parts of Western Province with the Bukusu and a smattering of other Luhya sub-tribes. The small communities fearful of domination by the two largest communities at the time –the Agikuyu and the Luo –had come together in KADU and wanted Kenya organized into a US style federal state with six autonomous regions. KADU actually got their way at Lancaster House.
The fiery William Murgor of KADU famously announced at the January 1962 Lancaster House Conference in London, 'If Kikuyus are settled in the Rift Valley, we will blow the whistle and have them ejected. That was a signal for his people to come out with spears and defend their territory. 'They belong to Central Province and should vacate Rift Valley as soon as possible.' President Jomo Kenyatta had proposed to settle the former Mau Mau and landless members of the Kikuyu tribe in the Rift Valley to occupy the lands vacated by departing white settlers and Murgor bitterly contested this settlement arrangement.
While tension was high between Kikuyu and Kalenjin land interests in the period leading up to independence, the alliance between the Kikuyu and Luo leadership was strong as all the leading Luo political leaders, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Tom Mboya, Ramogi Achieng' Oneko, CMG Argwings-Kodhek and Samuel Onyango Ayodo were all in KANU.
Jaramogi served as Vice-President of Kenya and KANU while Tom Mboya was Party Secretary-General and Minister for Economic Planning and Development. Ramogi Achieng' Oneko held the Information and Broadcasting portfolio while Onyango Ayodo served as Tourism Minister and Kodhek later joined the Cabinet as Foreign Minister. This lasted until 1966 when Jaramogi resigned as Vice –President of Kenya and formed the opposition party, Kenya Peoples Union (KPU).
Parliament subsequently passed a law which forced all MPs and Senators who had defected to the new party to lose their seats. It is worth noting, that when KADU and African Peoples Party leadership voluntarily crossed to KANU in November 1964, by elections were not held.
In May 1966 what is called the 'Little General' elections was held to fill the seats of the KPU defectors. This occasioned the first major multi-party elections held in Kenya and Luo-Nyanza. Six of the by elections were held in Central Nyanza District (today Kisumu and Siaya).'Tom Mboya led the KANU and Government campaign addressing 12 rallies in three days' as narrated in Cherry Gertzel's the Politics of Independent Kenya.
Initially they were fears of attacks on Mboya and the Government delegation but no attacks happened, as the contest was limited to a war of words. KPU portrayed Mboya as 'a younger man who was responsible for the older mans problems, through use of imagery and idioms.' KPU won all the seats, Bondo, Ugenya, Alego, Nyando, Kisumu Rural, and Ondiek Chillo Miguda recaptured the Central Nyanza Senate seat.
In the House of Representatives, out of 28 contested seats, Kanu garnered 21 while KPU got 7 seats. There was no violence and campaigns and voting were conducted peacefully. However, the KPU candidates were subjected to considerable official harassment. They were not, on the whole, granted licenses' for campaign rallies and their passports were impounded. The Voice of Kenya also imposed a news blackout on the KPU activities.
KANU and KPU were expected to lock horns during the 1968 local Government elections. This did not happen when the returning officers refused to accept nomination papers from all KPU candidates. As a result all KANU candidates were elected unopposed. The country was supposed to have had General elections in 1968, but with the merger of the Upper House (Senate) and Lower House (Parliament) in late 1966, the unicameral legislature voted to extend its 5 year tenure to 6 with elections now scheduled for late 1969.
Fast forward to July 5 1969 and the country's peace and quiet was shattered when Nahashon Isaac Njenga Njoroge shot dead Tom Mboya in a Nairobi street. Kisumu and Homa Bay bore the brunt of the protests and demonstrations with police shootings and killings. Earlier, in January 1969 Foreign Minister Clement George Michael (CMG) Argwings-Kodhek died in a mysterious road accident in Nairobi.
Kodhek was one of three Luo ministers, alongside Mboya and Ayodo who had remained in KANU and Government when KPU was formed and was MP for Gem until his death. He was succeeded by Wasonga Sijeyo of KPU who overcame Rading Omolo of KANU in the May 1969 by election, despite Mboya and KANUs aggressive campaigns.
In 1969, the Country was preparing for Presidential and General elections where Kanu was to be pitted against the KPU and President Jomo Kenyatta was to face off with Jaramogi Oginga Odinga later that year. That election happened without Jaramogi and KPU after the clash at the official opening of the New Nyanza Provincial Hospital (aka known as Russia Hospital) in Kisumu between Kenyatta and Odinga on October 25 and ended up with 11 people shot dead. The deaths of Kodhek and Mboya set the tone for the clash at the hospital especially in reaction to President Kenyatta's vitriol directed at Jaramogi Odinga and his KPU party.
KPU was banned and her Members of Parliament and the entire constellation detained without trial. Only one KPU member Grace Onyango was re-admitted to KANU and won the Kisumu Town parliamentary seat becoming the first woman elected to the August House in the entire Republic. The 1969 elections set a firm precedent regarding the exclusion of former KPU politicians from the electoral process. The election was peaceful and this was replicated in 1974.
The death of Jomo Kenyatta in 1978, seemed to usher in a short period of political rapprochement and reconciliation when new President Daniel arap Moi released political detainees, sought reconciliation and visited Nyanza province. After the Russia incident in 1969, Kenyatta did not return to Nyanza. However, KANU in line with Moi's "Fuata Nyayo" (Follow the footsteps) stance, continued the tradition of denying the ex-KPU group an opportunity to stand in the 1979 election.
Moi established a firm grip, consolidating power under a single party and ruling the country with an iron fist particularly in response to the failed coup attempt in 1982 fronted by junior Airforce officers. The failed coup gave birth to a draconian regime that brutally dealt with dissenters. In the intervening electoral periods, 1983 and 1988, Luo Nyanza remained politically marginalized and subdued up until another prominent death shook its core in 1990.
Foreign Minister and Kisumu Town Member of Parliament, Dr Robert Ouko's macabre murder in February 1990 set off a wave of protests, demonstrations and confrontation between police and locals in Nairobi and Kisumu and to some extent other parts of Migori and Homa Bay.
When Ouko's remains arrived in Kisumu Stadium for last rites, the security situation deteriorated and he had to be airlifted to Nyahera, the hills above Kisumu to his parents' home. This was after a deadly confrontation between Police, the GSU and protesters. Robert Ouko's death and the aftermath left more than 200 people dead according to the Weekly Review.
Ouko's murder broke any pretense at good relations between Government and the Luo community. 'If a Government Minister who has round the clock security can be kidnapped and murdered and the culprits have never been apprehended then what options do we have? 'Queried a resident of Kisumu at the Commission of Inquiry constituted to look at Ouko's death between October 1990 and November 1991. The Inquiry that sat at the Kisumu Municipal Council played a merry havoc with public confidence- in terms of corruption and alleged kick-backs by Ministers.
An array of issues that included the removal of the security of tenure of Judges of the High Court, the queue voting system introduced ahead of the 1988 General elections, the human rights violations in the Nyayo torture chambers and the politically instigated ethnic clashes in 1991 and 1992 led to the exodus of the Luo community from KANU to Oginga Odinga's newly formed political party Ford in late 1991. William Murgor's people had finally blown the whistle and they targeted opposition supporters particularly the Luo and Kikuyu. From 1992 with political pluralism back in the statutes, the opposition became vocal but Moi did not tolerate dissent. Police dealt with protests and demonstrations ruthlessly as Luo Nyanza found itself back in the line of fire.
In March 1992, police chased down multi-party demonstrators into Kisumu Boys High School and shot them down despite the fact that the school was in session. A former student who was at the institution, collecting his O-level results was one of the casualties. The State instigated ethnic cleansing continued unabated in the Rift Valley and at the borders of Nyanza and Nandi as well as the Kericho-Sondu areas. At the General election on 29 December Luo-Nyanza voted to a man and woman for Ford-Kenya and Oginga Odinga in the first multi party elections since 1966. Ford Kenya came in fourth after, Mwai Kibaki's DP, Kenneth Matiba's Ford Asili and Moi's KANU that won amidst widespread claims of ballot stuffing and irregularities.
There was some respite during the cooperation between KANU and Ford-Kenya and Moi and Oginga Odinga for some time in 1993 and this lasted until Jaramogi's death in January 1994. Tension increased again as political leaders started agitating for reforms ahead of the 1997 General elections. Government outlawed the rallies and met them with brute force, not only in Kisumu but also in the Nairobi.
With elections approaching, ethnic cleansing resumed in the Rift Valley. Kisumu was again targeted with KANU thugs given state protection. This time Alego-Usonga Constituency was the Government target in the contest between Peter Oloo Aringo of the National Development Party and the KANU candidate, Edwin Yinda. The number of those who died in that clash have never been known.
2002 was a calm year as the opposition sought to succeed Moi who was scheduled to retire after the term limits was introduced in the Constitution in 1992. The Kikuyu and the Luo joined forces to defeat KANU but the marriage did not last. Cracks emerged in the NARC Government of President Kibaki in 2003 because of the controversial Memorandum of Understanding, which promised Raila Odinga of LDP the Prime-Ministers position.
Those cracks finally came to the fore at the Constitutional referendum in November 2005. Roads Minister Raila Odinga and Cabinet colleagues Prof Anyang' Nyong'o, Ochillo Ayacko, Najib Balala, William Ole Ntimama, Kalonzo Musyoka and Assistant Ministers, Peter Odoyo and Orwa Ojode among others led the NO team symbolized by the Orange while President Kibaki led the YES team represented by the Banana.
The November 2005 constitutional referendum between the Orange and Banana teams left death and destruction in Kisumu. One of those killed was a 13 year old pupil at Josana Academy, shot dead by police as he came from School. The Kisumu Polytechnic gate was brought down a GSU Landover acting as a battering ram. Students were beaten black and blue before being arrested and arraigned in Court.
Eventually all the charges were dropped because unknown to the State one student had recorded the entire episode on video. The 2007 General elections and its aftermath was the worst in living memory. During peaceful demonstrations, following the disputed result, a police officer gunned down a citizen taunting and making faces at the police, in the full glare of television cameras.
Despite the fact that this killing was recorded, the policeman was acquitted. Starting on 30 December 2007 up until the peace-accord in February 2008, police shot and killed citizens who protested the outcome of the election. Victor Odhiambo who played rugby for Kisumu RFC was one of those gunned down in Nyalenda area.
During the 2010 Constitutional referendum, Kisumu had a chance to catch its breath as President Kibaki and Prime-Minister Raila Odinga were on the same side. The peace only lasted until March 2013 with the face-off between Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta. Following the announcement of the results, those protesting clashed with the police, again resulting in shootings and death.
In the year 2015, during peaceful demonstrations against the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, police again shot dead citizens in Siaya, Migori, Homa Bay and Kisumu.
History does repeat itself and 2017 has lived up to the painful consequence of death for protestors in Kisumu and other parts of Nyanza. Since the first election held on August 8, it is actually not possible to put a finger on the number of those killed and maimed. A 6-month-old Baby Samantha Pendo's skull was crushed by a policeman's boot following the protests against claims of a rigged election. A few weeks later, 2-year-old Chantal Amondi was a victim of a police bullet. She was shot on the shoulder, while playing with her neighbours.
On 26th October during the repeat elections, 26 people suffered gunshot wounds and three died, according to a record of those admitted to the New Nyanza Provincial Hospital (aka) Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital. Figures released by the Kenya National Human Rights Body, IMLU and police gave conflicting numbers. Other casualties were admitted to sub-county hospitals and private institutions.
Given this history of state brutality, the trends of ethnic profiling remain self-evident. Policing in areas populated by communities aligned to the ruling regime is restrained and moderated. In recent times, a look at how the police have dealt with demonstrations in Gusii, Kitale, Bungoma, Vihiga, Mombasa and even Nairobi contrast sharply with the sort of excesses that have been normalized in Luo-Nyanza. Rarely will you find citizens shot and killed over an election contest.
The only thing new elections have taught us in Kenya, is that we have learned nothing from the old. Why are elections in Kenya associated with death and tragedy? The simple answer is the lack of electoral integrity and credibility that is an essential ingredient in reconciling political conflicts peacefully. Until, Kenya holds free and fair elections that adhere to the rule of law, Kenyans who rise up against injustice will continue to bleed. As the black American singer and actor turned Civil Rights activist Paul Robeson said, "The answer to injustice is not to silence the critic but to end injustice".
I Long For A Different August
Since I was a child, I have been acutely aware of conflict and deeply concerned with resolving contentious problems. That has made for an interesting outlook considering that since my birth in August 1982 until this day, my community in Nyanza, Western Kenya has been under regular attack from state forces because of the egalitarian values we seek to uphold, in stark contrast to the neocolonial, capitalist, patriarchal ideology steering government.
I now live in New York City and have lived here most of my life. I do not have the privilege of a single point of view. I hold at least four in my mind at all times: a Kenyan Luo woman, a feminist, a black person in the diaspora and an African aware of racialized scrutiny by Westerners. Right now, I am writing this editorial from my apartment in New York. Yet, the sounds of jackhammers fixing the road, people on their daily commute, children goofing around and sound systems blasting classic tunes, cannot take me away from Nyanza. Though I have lived abroad for years, returning now and then, Western Kenya is always very close to my heart. Even in this bustling city, I have a palpable sense of urgency. I feel as though this moment, with Luo identity under attack amidst disconcerting apathy in Kenya and abroad, is different from others.
In this moment, as America shows itself to be a feckless global leader, with a government incapable of healing national divides and Kenya bumbles along in similar fashion though with greater promise as a nation ascending rather than in decline; this is a time when truth comes to light no matter how long it has been kept in the dark.
In America, the lie of white supremacy is coming undone while in Kenya, the neocolonial construct of "tribal" supremacy and unfettered corruption is being confronted.
I was born during the coup of 1982, in August. The story goes that I was born just before the evening curfew and my father was able to see me before he had to rush home. Daniel Arap Moi was president and his brutality as head of state was highly effective in suppressing dissents and crushing the notion of Kenya as a democratic republic. The story of my birth and politics swirling about at the time have informed my entire life, though not intentionally.
From my first breath, I intuitively understood that freedom isn't free and yet it is the thing I value above almost all others. One might say that I have committed my life to the preservation of freedom of expression as writer, producer and activist. My mother, is a doctoral anthropologist and feminist, while my late father was a civil servant. Both of them led very improbable lives, committed in their own way to the promise of post-colonial Kenya having been born under British occupation. My mother made the greatest impression upon me with her keen understanding and research of our ethnic culture before colonization as a matrilineal society where land passes down through the women. She was fortunate to be raised by a feminist mother and father who did not undermine her potential as a girl child. Thankfully she treated me with the same respect, empowering a critical thinker, open to sometimes contradictory ideas in pursuit of universal truths.
In America, in the month of November 2017, a white man with a history of domestic violence walked into an idyllic Texas church in Sutherland Springs and indiscriminately murdered 26 people, injuring 10 more with a semi-automatic weapon. In the States, this has been the deadliest year on record for mass shootings. A nation that purports to be the leader of the free world. Please! Although this country works very hard to churn out propaganda that makes it seem that radical Muslims and rabid black protesters or gang members are out here shooting people left and right, it's patently untrue.
According to research by Mother Jones, since 1982 Muslims have committed arguably 4% of mass shootings and black people 16%. But whites, mostly men, are responsible for some 54% of mass shootings. They are never called terrorists. Even Timothy McVeigh, a white supremacist, who by most accounts is a terrorist for the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 people, was never formally charged as a terrorist because the U.S. ascribes all federal charges of terrorism to foreign agents. White men are the true American terrorist and yet, the capitalist interests of bodies like the National Rifle Association (NRA), a pro gun lobby worth $27 billion, and political interests like the Republican party, funded by an oligarchy of racist white male billionaires, have no interest in the truth. Some are actually calling the American problem with mass shootings, an epidemic, because incidences of gun violence are spreading and body counts rising.
Just this past week, a self-proclaimed ISIS terrorist of Uzbek descent killed 8 people in New York City with a rented vehicle and a gun. Following this tragedy, most Republican politicians were calling for stricter immigration laws to stop the scourge of "Muslim extremists." And yet, about a month prior a white man murdered nearly 60 people and injured about 600 more with an arsenal of many legally purchased guns, and there was no political will from the White House to handle the situation.
You see in America, arguably the leading third world democracy given they trail every developed nation in analytics, the single story of white male supremacy trumps any potential remedy to the epidemic of gun violence. If this nation were to admit that billionaire white men are pulling the levers of the Republican government. That these same oligarchs do not care about their poor and working class white male counterparts. That all they really care about is money and power that would disturb the carefully crafted single story that white is right in any form that white male domination takes.
And yet, the cat is kind of out of the bag since the election of Donald Trump who has inspired unprecedented pessimism in white male leadership in the midst of rampant violence.
Thinking about the emergence of Kenya after independence from colonization, I can see that the apathy Kenyans feel for the unbridled violence and cruelty towards Luo leadership and citizens is similar to the marginalization and misinformation piled on Muslim residents or citizens and African Americans in this country. The single story in Kenya entails that the wealthy are the most qualified to lead. That the Kikuyu hegemony and whomever aligns with them are the most competent to hold public office. That the Luo critics are the most insolent in their consistent challenge to oligarchic power. That bombastic self interest is a signifier of true leadership while egalitarianism is a pipe dream. That those who beat and kill with impunity have the divine right to do so. That like people of color in the US, Luo people are deserving of demonization despite overwhelming facts to the contrary (even allowing for those who fall short of appropriate conduct), and that British imperialism by African proxy like American imperialism propagated by whiteness is paramount to human rights violations.
Since Kenya entered a war with Somalia, Kenyan people have endured unprecedented mass killings with innocent people falling victim to Islamist terrorism at the hands of Al Shabaab. To witness the slaughter of 148 students with dozens injured in Garissa or see the horrific charred remains of upmarket Westgate mall following a mass shooting that claimed the life of 67 people and nearly 200 injured, has been difficult to say the least. Its public knowledge the war with Somalia is a proxy for U.S. interests. This conflict has only made Kenyans more cynical and mistrusting of one another and I cannot see how it helps Somalia given all the tragic attacks recurring in Mogadishu. So when America like other foreign observers claims the August 8th elections were free and fair after the murder of a high ranking IEBC official, Chris Musando, the whole affair becomes wholly suspect.
The Luo as a community, not to dismiss the sacrifices of other Kenyans, have suffered a lot in the challenge to contentious governance. We can look to the laundry list of assassinations including Tom Mboya and Robert Ouko, the countless imprisonments of dissidents like Jaramogi Oginga Odinga and Achieng Oneko, or the recent murders of IEBC officials Chris Msando and Caroline Odinga, who sadly suffered sexual assault before her cruel end. All Luos on the frontline challenging the status quo have been released from earthly duty by unchecked violence. And these are just some notable figures, there are countless more "nobodies" whose deaths remain unacknowledged and their memories erased.
In this moment in America, black people have learned their lesson about being scapegoated, mistreated and killed by white men with unchecked power. Muslim Americans are learning the same lesson. This is not to say that all of the oppressed are saints, but that most of the oppressed are indeed victimized. When we look to ongoing protests that employ nonviolent tactics akin to Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. in the fight against modern police brutality, racist violence and mass incarceration that too often claims black and brown people's lives, I feel optimistic.
This optimism holds true because advocacy for one's community can sometimes remind those capable of empathy that there is value to every human life. Though, justice is unlikely to come from the state; people who understand their human dignity, patriots in search of a nation that lives up to its constitution and citizens who understand the power of their vote have the means to change hearts.
Mandela showed us once before and young American activists in various urban centers protesting police killings and the questionable Muslim travel ban remind us today. My experience as a Kenyan immigrant with consciousness as a Kenyan Luo woman, feminist, black person and African among Westerners is one of longing.
Longing for the day that my people, who have often been on the right side of history, will be respected and protected, for the enormous love we have for Kenya and her children. Until then, as always, we will lead by example and I hope that is enough.
And maybe one day, in another August, outcomes will be different.
The Luo Problem
The biggest frustration for a rational thinking Kenyan, is the flimsy justification of extra-judicial killings by the police.
Whether it is the Wagalla Massacre (they provoked the government), displacement and killing of Kikuyus during our tumultuous electoral cycles in the 1990s (they should know how to vote), or the state-sanctioned shoot-to-kill of the Mungiki (they are a menace), it always escapes me why we bother having a functional government, with a well-paid judiciary where showing up for work on the most important day is not necessary.
Or think about the use of excessive force and inexcusably, using live bullets on demonstrators who are not satisfied with the outcome of an election annulled by the Supreme Court.
To a section of Kenyans, the demonstrators in Nairobi, Kisumu and Migori, should be deterred using force because they destroy property. When we have people, who value property more than human life, we have a problem.
We sunk Sh 216 billion to the security docket last year. We invested in police trucks, water canon trucks, tons of teargas and rubber bullets, presumably. The various policing units, we hope are trained well in armed combat and handling riots. Why is the use of live bullets still an option?
Few people ask that. To many, if a live bullet can end a demonstration, and we go back to "our normal lives", the better, because "business is suffering, and we can't politick all year around".
Yet politics determines our lives. The best question we can ask, is why are Luos ready to demonstrate, what justifies their anger that even a live bullet cannot stop them.
Unless you sufficiently understand the history of Kenya and how marginalization works, you will not understand why some communities are bandits, some sympathise with terrorists, and why the Northern Frontier will always be a hotbed of violence that our police and military will never adequately contain. And yes, you will never understand what makes the Luos angry, constantly agitating.
The 2017 elections have claimed more than 60 lives according to the Human Rights Watch report on the elections. Those killed include a 6-month toddler, a 10-year old girl playing in their apartment balcony, and several young men, some pulled from their homes at night, and killed and blanketly condemned as destructive protesters.
The Luo body is denigrated by the state, stripped of its life, and has been at the receiving end of state brutality, time and time again.
To the State, and its apologists, the Luo are a handful lot. We know the stereotypes: they are anti-business, violent, and difficult to appease. The Jubilee Party Vice-Chair David Murathe told KTN news network,
"The opposition (read Luos) have nothing to protect. They have no stakes in the economy."
How come in Kenya, some people have a stake and others, don't.
Murathe was trying to justify the use of excessive force, because where he comes from, property ranks higher than the sanctity of human life. To Murathe and his ilk, connecting poverty to protest is intellectually taxing.
It is an erroneous assertion that the opposition is anti-business and pro-Jubilee people are pro-business and prosperous.
Nigerian writer, Chimamanda's Adichie's said in the much-publicized TED Talk, The Danger of a Single Story, "Stereotypes are not necessarily untrue, as they are incomplete."
The single story of the disorderly nature of the Luos, with a penchant for destruction, enabled by the cheap soundbites that our aptly labeled 'Githeri Media' goes after when tracking protesters, has made it possible to justify police brutality and violence.
When police talk of forestalling violence during elections, sadly it means sending police trucks to NASA strongholds mostly occupied by the Luos, whether in Nairobi (Kibera and Mathare) or Kisumu, Siaya and Migori.
We were here in 2007. We saw on live TV as an unarmed young man was shot dead as he protested a dubious election outcome. In 2013, the police did everything in their power to ensure that violence did not breakout, but it was more muted and creatively contained. But we never solved the problem of conducting credible elections, neither did we learn to have a more inclusive government.
And in 2017, inevitably we were going to end up where it all begun: in 2007 with a disputed presidential election.
But this did not begin in 2007. The two politically dominant communities, Kikuyus and Luos, did not begin their political competition today. It started long before the pre-Independence days, even as the colonialist tried to drive a wedge between them. But they buried their difference for the good of Kenya.
A history of marginalization
What makes the Luo constantly agitate for their rights stems from the diseased body politic of Kenya. If we learn to see it as a quest for equality, not just for the Luos, but for every Kenyan who suffers from the silly government policies, corruption and nepotism, it will bring us closer to relating to the humanity of the Luos.
The Kikuyus and Luos came together and their unity was instrumental in kicking out the British colonialist. But we got our independence at the height of the cold war, like some countries in the world, the president and vice-president would ideologically drift apart, and the seeds of marginalizing the Luos were planted, and so was the seed of agitating for their rights.
After independence, 40-odd tribes found themselves lumped together in an experiment called Kenya. Some of the communities had a head start. Walter Rodney, in 'How Europe Underdeveloped Africa', outlined how the colonialists annexed productive parts of the country, developing them, and by the time they left, the places had schools, churches, hospitals and basic infrastructure. And to date, such places are still far advantaged, no amount of denial can erase the fact.
In 1965, Tom Mboya and Mwai Kibaki, then in charge of the Ministry of Economic Planning and Development wrote a simplistic paper, Session Paper No. 10 that will guide Kenya's faulty development agenda for the next 45 years.
The paper simply adopted the colonial system where areas with the most abundant natural resources, good land and rainfall, transport and power facilities and where people were receptive to and active in development would receive more government funding in the hope that profits from such areas can be offered as loans to less productive areas.
This was obviously a primer for regional development disparities that will haunt the country for decades to follow. This was made the worse by the nepotism that governed the conscience of the founding father. Areas that were resource poor, or in opposition were doubly sidelined.
That precondition of developing areas that were 'receptive' to development was to be used to politically control areas that were amenable to the whims of the ruling elite. Former president, Daniel Arap Moi, famously said, "Siasa Mbaya, Maisha mbaya." And this was a justification of sidelining the Luos and other communities that were either in opposition or didn't have arable land or any resource the state could extract.
At the very heart of politics, as Harold Laswell aptly defined it, is who gets what, when and how. With a firm grip on power by the Kikuyu elite and Jaramogi Oginga Odinga leaning left, the marginalization of the Luo started shortly after independence. Luos with potential to take power and change the course of the Luo trajectory were assassinated; Argwings Kodhek and Tom Mboya died in that troubled decade of the 1960s.
Luos generally settled in opposition, especially after the brutal assassination of Mboya and events surrounding the shooting a dozen protesters in Kisumu on October 1969, when President Kenyatta went to open the Russian Hospital. So ironic that 48 years later, police were breaking into people's homes in Kisumu, shooting and killing Luos, unsparingly. What is vexing is that the Luos who are usually killed are unarmed, and when armed it is the crude stuff like a stone, an odd metal, yet police are trained in armed combat and can easily disarm and violent protesters with an array of options. Use of live bullets is positively revulsive.
Then came the 1982 coup, where Luos were part of the top ranks, behind the short-lived and misguided coup. Many were jailed and executed after the coup. And the second president found yet another justification to sideline Luos.
By 1990, another Luo, one of the few serving the government at the top, was brutally assassinated. Even though Robert Ouko was in the government, and not much of a popular figure among the Luos he was still their illustrious son and his death was definitely a reminder of government hostility towards their community.
Ouko's death happened towards the end of the Cold War.. The West changed tune and started advocating for multiparty democracy in Africa.
With both Luos and Kikuyus in opposition after President Moi's twelve years in power, their collaboration given their population would have effectively ended Moi's regime. The initial dalliance of Jaramogi and Matiba and other Second Liberation leaders, was a good move, but selfish interests overrode the common agenda, and the three major opposition forces participated in the elections separately, efficiently giving Moi another 10 years, until the opposition came to its senses in 2002, where again, Kikuyus and Luos would collaborate to save Kenya from a dictatorship.
By then, the Luos had been marginalized for more than three decades. Raila Odinga's brief cooperation with President Moi in the late 1990s and early 2000s did bring a few goodies to the people of Nyanza, with the Kisii-Kisumu Highway getting a much-needed facelift. Kisumu was made a city, with too much fanfare and, cosmetic as these changes were, Luos did taste, what being in government felt like.
Then 2002 came, and Kibaki got to power and disregarded the MoU that brought him to power and effectively ended the Kenyan dream. And in its place, he entrenched a terrible ethnic cronyism that restored the old GEMA elite network that Moi's 24 years of presidency scuttled. In record time, we would see banks, universities, and businesses owned by the GEMA community start to flourish, even as Luos, and other marginalized communities were kept at bay from key state jobs. Instead marginalized communities were asked to be content with tokenisms, like the Constituency Development Fund (CDF). Most communities were kept from the center of action, until the 2010 promulgation of the New Constitution entrenched devolution, did many communities start to feel as part of Kenya, since they could get a slice of the national cake.
Legally, devolution only guarantees counties 15 per cent of the action. The remaining 85 per cent is still up for grabs and cause for clamor for presidency.
When we read that the president has cancelled Sh 2 billion coffee debts in Kirinyaga, or Sh 1 billion to Miraa farmers, or the government spent Sh 61 million to build a State-of-the-Art fishing factory in Nyeri, people will agitate for similar opportunities. Other parts of Kenya rarely get the same treatment.
When the president gets to bail other communities' dead industries, it is for political expediency. But even so, what is the point of reviving Mumias, when cheap sugar is imported or smuggled, rendering the efforts of farmers futile.
The carnage of dead sugar industries in the country's sugar belt, has robbed many people in Western Kenya their wherewithal. The killing and privatization of industries such as KICOMI by the Structural Adjustments Programs and other economic programs that favour cheap imports at the cost of our industrial economy have played a big role in rendering the Luo poor.
And it is poverty that makes them agitate for a piece of Kenya. It is easy to say, if it is not only the Luos who are poor, how come other tribes are not as violent?
For one, it is the Luos who have the critical mass to agitate, and that is why other communities that feel marginalized too, usually rally behind them. Besides marginalization in each community manifests itself differently. In pastoralists communities, banditry thrives, early marriages are common and there is high levels of illiteracy. In the Coast, secession calls by outfits such as MRCs (Mombasa Republican Council), the drug abuse scourge, child prostitution, are red flags of what marginalization can do.
Culturally, the Luos are outspoken and have always been an open society, where anyone can speak truth to power. Everywhere I have been, I meet Luos who cannot keep quiet in the face of injustice. Like the one-time honorary member of Black Panthers Movement, Stokely Carmichael said, "the secret of life is to have no fear, it is the only way to function."
Luos have been so marginalized that fear is no longer an option, that is why no amount of gun-toting, trigger-happy policemen will silence them. They have infected other Kenyans to fight for their rights, and on Friday after the October 26 presidential rerun, we saw the same brutality being extended to Bungoma residents.
Luos Lives Matter
Regardless of how you relate with Luos, whether you found them repulsive, loud, or annoying, their lives matters. Each community will have certain traits, some likable, some disagreeable, but it is this diversity that makes our lives richer.
A people's collective behaviour is a product of long-held customs, filtered through history, nurtured by their environment. Since we don't share similar environments, we are likely to be different in our outlook of life. But these differences are smaller compared to similarities.
Luo parents want their children to succeed as much as Kikuyu parents want their children to succeed. No parent wishes to see their son killed by the very person they expect to protect their child.
If their way of life is at variance with how you lead your life, the least you can do, is not to wish them harm, or cheer the police in their murderous spree. Police brutality in a country like ours spares no one.
Like Chinua Achebe said of Igbo, in tackling the Igbo persistent Igbo problem in his evergreen collection of essays The Trouble with Nigeria, "The Igbo are a necessary ingredient to the modernization and development of Nigerian society. It is neither necessary or possible to suppress them. Nigeria without the inventiveness and dynamism of the Igbo would be a less hopeful place than it is."
The same can be said of the Luos. Overt and covert exclusion of the Luos, and other communities from key government posts and resources will always make them agitate and will never give a government peace until they are made to feel part of the country.
It is really that simple.
By Silas Nyanchwani
Silas Nyanchwani is a Kenyan writer and social commentator.
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Finding Taij
So, the ball python I was going to get was no longer available. So, I'm back on the hunt... I've found two that I liked and am going to figure out if they're available and good for me, soon.
I'm not sure if I told you, but my uncle is in town. I don't think I've ever talked about him. He's my mom's brother in law. He's one of my uncles that I'm close with.
Well, I was discussing with my mom about what ball python to get and my uncle basically starts to test whether I'm making a good decision. He's searching how big they get, what they eat, how aggressive they apparently can be... My mom then got pissy about, "Oh, I don't want a snake that big.." Just saying, ball pythons aren't dangerous. I think he just heard python and thought, "danger". I got annoyed with him but after I explained, he took my side. My mom started to say, "yeah, let's just get a corn snake". I told him that a ball python is a step-up from a corn snake and that there were no reasonable prices for corn snakes where we lived. So, we'd be paying like $90 for a corn snake, $70 for a terrarium, $25 for hideouts, $25 for fake plants, $15 for bedding, etc. That kind of adds up... Around $250. My mom just expected that Zeppelin and another corn snake would for surely get along.. And uhm, if they don't? Yeah, that's over $100 of getting it another habitat. We should just get a ball python and his things for under $150. It's a better deal and it's what I actually want.
So when my mom thought she'd just outnumber me, and said, "So, don't you think a corn snake would be better?" my uncle said, "Well, I think Bri is right. She wants to move up from a corn snake and it'd cost less. If you get a corn snake, you'd have to buy all the things for him and it'd cost about double more than the ball python." Something along those lines. So, I will be getting a ball python. We just need to find which ball python will work best for me.
I might know tomorrow...
She is the bigger one :)
8/10/2016 06:13:00 am
I watched few YouTube videos about a ball python. They said ball pythons are known to be really calm. They're not dangerous to humans so your mom has nothing to worry about. the worst that could happen is that he'd bite you and it would get infected. but it's not really dangerous. But maybe watch out for Lucy (and of course Alya :P) when Taij gets big. I think that the cats should be fine since they can climb. A woman in the video said it's better you give them frozen mouse when he's little and frozen rats when he's bigger. they're not big eaters (usually) so if they don't feel like eating the rat, the rat could kill them. but you probably already knew all this haha I don't know why but I'm really excited for this haha I kind of feel like I'm getting a snake hahaha x)
8/10/2016 12:34:00 pm
I know, that's one of the reasons I wanted one :3 And, I don't know crap about rodents so, bare with me here... If I were to get a cage for Alya, and she live in there... Would it be okay to put rats in there with her? I'm not able to get frozen mice/rats because they're pretty expensive, and my parents said they aren't fans of having dead mice/rats in their freezer... I don't know if the rats/mice would hurt Alya... I don't think they would but, I want to be sure. And yeah, I probably will keep the ball python away from any other pets. Zeppelin was very small so, I didn't worry about him. I have a container for feeding so, I'd just take him out if he didn't eat. In a way it's like your snake because you know you're going to hear about him A LOT, plus you've helped/been with me during the process of finding my snake.
8/10/2016 02:31:39 pm
um.. putting other rats/mice in Alya's cage would probably be a bad idea. They like to protect their territory so they'd probably fight a lot and maybe even kill each other. maybe you remember when I told you that once I thought sky was bored (when I got a job and I didn't have as much time for her) so I bought her another rat for company (Inari). I left Inari in Sky's old cage and let Sky out of the cage so they'd meet. Sky'd almost bite Inari's finger off. through the cage. If I'd let them both out Sky would probably kill her. So I wouldn't push my luck if I were you haha and yeah haha I can see why your parents arent really happy with the thought of having frozen rats in the refrigerator haha
8/10/2016 07:06:49 pm
Oh, yeah. Forgot about that... Well, I think about what to do later. Well... I think I'll give Alya a cage and put the rats in what she's in now. Or to save money, I might just leave the rat in the feeding container. I'll have to put a lid with holes but... idk. I can tell when Alya is bored and wants to run around so, I just put down a towel on my bed and keep an eye on her as she runs around.
8/10/2016 08:17:54 pm
Change of plans... I will get her Friday or the weekend.
8/11/2016 01:16:18 am
okay I just wanted to say that I have 3 cages for sky and that she's grown out of 2 and you can come and pick them up hhahahahhaahh x') I did something like that once before haha I was looking for my tweezers and couldn't find them and I just went in my head like ''ow I'll just say Bri to bring hers. I'm sure she has one'' and then I was just like.. wait what?? hahah
8/11/2016 01:30:45 am
Honestly, I can't help but be tempted to ask for you to ship one to me x3 But, it'd cost money so, I might as well just go to the store. I do have two tweezers so, you can borrow one :3 I am too! I'll put some more names I like later.
8/11/2016 07:43:04 am
It would probably cost less to buy it. How much do you think it'd cost to send it? Hahaha ow thanks. Throw it. I'll definitely catch it. Haha x)
8/11/2016 11:31:15 am
Uhm, depends how much it weights. But, I think you'd have to pay to ship it which wouldn't be fair. So yeah, I'll just go to the store.
8/11/2016 12:48:10 pm
Names :
8/11/2016 02:20:15 pm
hmm I think I still like Yakira the most. but I also really like Kazuki. which one is your favorite?
8/11/2016 02:28:23 pm
I found this site where there are lists of names sorted by the meaning. here it is for peace http://nameberry.com/list/411/Baby-Names-That-Mean-Peace?all=1
8/11/2016 02:47:49 pm
Alana/Alaina: Meaning "harmony," this pretty name lends itself to plenty of spelling variations if you want to give it an original twist.
8/11/2016 03:33:38 pm
My favorites are:
8/11/2016 04:12:52 pm
I kind of had a feeling like you'd say Naimah and Shiloh hehe :P do you maybe know how the snake you're going to get is called now?
8/11/2016 11:55:57 pm
Her name was Onyx because of her eyes. I'm not keeping that name because one of my friends have a dog named Onyx. I met her today and she's awesome x3 She's my ideal snake. I decided to name her Shiloh. I do still miss Zeppelin though... I can't wait for when I see him again. But anyways, (sorry to make that sad) I can't get over how beautiful she is. She's also a lot bigger than Zeppelin. Zeppelin was about nickel to a quarter around and under three feet long. She is the size of my fist around, and I haven't measured her yet. Maybe under 4 feet..? I'll measure her and post a picture of her and her terrarium tomorrow. She's lovely. She's very calm and will just hang out with me. It was an hour drive to get her and another hour back. I didn't get pooped on so, that's a plus. In her terrarium, there is this hook that holds this vine/leave thing and she was using it for support and just goofing off. It was adorable :3 I didn't want to put her in her terrarium but, I'm going to bed after this (it's 1:00am). Just like Zeppelin, it didn't take long at all for me to fall in love with her.
8/12/2016 01:43:36 am
ow so you already brought her home if I got it right? That's awesome ^_^ Do you think you'll ever see Zeppelin again?
8/12/2016 03:06:35 am
Yeah, I got her home with me now c: Yeah... Idk, I don't get a bad feeling about it. Plus, he was an awesome snake so, I just don't see him disappearing. I might just be delusional but, it's best for me to be, in this situation. I remember last year (when I was really sick) I had it in my head that the world was going to end. It's a long story, but it's a huge thing that got me through that.
8/12/2016 05:44:41 am
Awesome :3 and yeah it's a good thing to stay positive. I think some day he's just going to have enough of the "outside world" and will come back.
8/12/2016 10:29:16 am
Me too c: And yeah, I will if I can.
8/12/2016 10:32:57 am
Oukay :3
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A leading House supporter of trade legislation that Democrats drove to defeat this week said on Sunday President Barack Obama must sway his own party to save the measure.
Republican representative Paul Ryan – the House ways and means committee chairman – said Democrats were making Obama "a very lame-duck president", and told Fox News Sunday the legislation could be salvaged. Obama, he said, "has work to do with his party".
Ryan was Mitt Romney's vice-presidential pick in the 2012 election.
At issue in the trade legislation is a worker assistance programme – part of a package that includes special trade negotiating power for the president. Another vote could come this week, but it would take a major shift among Democrats after Friday's defeat to allow it to pass.


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The maiden launch Thursday of a Russian-built Soyuz rocket carrying two satellites in Europe's planned geopositioning service has been delayed 24 hours, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
"There has been a 24-hour delay in the launch related to the rocket," an ESA spokesman said.
Arianespace chief executive Jean-Yves Le Gall was to give a press conference later.
Lift-off of the rocket carrying the first satellites of Europe's 5.4-billion-euro (7.2-billion-dollar) answer to the US Global Positioning System (GPS) had been set for 7:34 a.m. (1034 GMT).


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Apparently I have shorter than average legs for a 5'10" person. That means that I fit a medium frame in regards to stand-over height, but it also means that my torso is longer than average and thus the top-tube length isn't quite long enough for me. I already have my seat back as far as it can go and I'm constantly sitting on the tail end of it. I feel as though I have too much weight on my hands and arms as well, and when cruising down a hill if I get back off the seat and stretch out I have soo much more control.I'm hoping to get a fitment first, but I'm planning on a set-back Thompson Masterpiece.


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Bihar Public service Commission (BPSC) has going to coordinate a written examination of BPSC Lecturer Exam 2016 which was for the posts of Lecturers (Civil Engineering/ Technology). This examination was planned to be held on 17-July-2016. Applicants whose aimed to have a bright career in teaching jobs in Bihar are going to take part in the BPSC Lecturer Exam 2016. The examination was supervise by the Uttar Bihar Public service Commission under the rules or regulation of state government of Bihar at lots of designated examination centers. Vast number of applicants are exert in the online recruitment circulate by the BPSC and also going to arrive on the written examination of 17 of July for Lecturers posts. Besides the examination applicants who are eager to know about the BPSC Lecturer Answer Key 2016 releasing date, it may hope that the BPSC Lecturer Answer Key 2016 will make public soon approx one week after the examination. Applicants who wants to work out or figure out their potential in this examination through this answer key or booklet, for that visit the official portal that is – (www.bpsc.bih.nic.in).
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In past few months Bihar Public Service Commission has issued a recruitment notification to recruit 103 empty seats of Lecturers posts of Civil Engineering/ Technology in different Government Polytechnic colleges. This notification was for those colleges which are affiliated with the Department of Science & Technology of the Government of Bihar state. That was the golden opportunity for the talented applicants ae well as eligible who doesn't have any job yet but are interested in the teaching job for them organization published an recruitment notification which was previously filled by the applicants. The BPSC offers many recruitment notification time to time for recruiting varied vacant posts in government department. At now organization has going to conduct the BPSC Lecturer Exam 2016 for 103 posts whose answer key will announce soon and will available on this page.
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The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) was came into existence on 1-November-1956 whose headquarters are at Patna, Bihar. It is a organized to select applicants for civil service jobs in the Indian state of Bihar according to the merits of the applicants and the rules of reservation by the Constitution of India. Shri Radha Krishna Choudhary was the first Secretary to the Commission. This commission provides services in the states through recruit applicants, take various examination, transfers or promotions. The selection of application was on the hand of Bihar Public Service Commission for their department and they only appoint those applicants who are capable or deserve to be a part of BPSC. Earlier organization issued an recruitment for 103 posts of lecture and now organization has going to announce BPSC Lecturer Solved Paper 2016 of 17 of July sooner on it's official site.
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Today, large streams of data, coupled with statistical analysis and sophisticated algorithms, are rapidly gaining importance in almost every field of science, politics, journalism, and much more. What does this mean for the future of work?
This, for those who have been paying attention to the exponential trends of technology and IT in general, should come as no surprise.
Many critics used to say that computers could never beat the best human at chess, because computers perform very inefficient brute force attacks on problems, instead of relying on intuition and hierarchical structures like our brains do. Yet, the 1997 Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov challenge saw the IBM machine beat the World Chess Champion, during what has been called "the most spectacular chess event in history".
History repeated itself in 2011, when IBM Watson defeated at the game of Jeopardy! Brad Rutter, the biggest all-time money winner (>$3.4 million), and Ken Jennings, the record holder for the longest championship streak (74 wins). Just before the match, more or less the same arguments that were brought up in 1997 were presented against the machine that was crunching some 200 million pages of text through sophisticated AI. Yet, the machine won again.
Recently, legendary linguist Noam Chomsky was interviewed on the development of Artificial Intelligence over the years. According to the MIT Professor, the heavy use of statistical methods and large corpora of data is unlikely to yield any significant scientific insights into the study of language, because you "can get a better and better approximation", "but you learn nothing about the language". That may be so. But Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, points out in his critical response that "grammaticality is not a categorical, deterministic judgment but rather an inherently probabilistic one. This becomes clear to anyone who spends time making observations of a corpus of actual sentences, but can remain unknown to those who think that the object of study is their own set of intuitions about grammaticality [...] it is observation, not intuition that is the dominant model for science."
It's difficult to say who is right on this (only time will tell), but it's rather easy which approach had the biggest commercial success. 100% of search engines, speech recognition, machine translation, word sense disambiguation, and most of coreference resolution, part of speech tagging, and question answering algorithms are trained on large data sets and are probabilistic in nature.
Our intuitions and insights develop quite linearly with time, but the amount of data at our disposal and the computing power capable of interpreting such data is increasing exponentially. This had a profound effect on the workforce, and it will do more so in the future. Forbes already utilizes Narrative Science, an innovative technology company, to create rich narrative content from data. Google News aggregates millions news stories and clusters accurately them in a matter of seconds, a task that no group of humans could ever dream of performing. Facebook and Amazon's suggestions algorithms are far too complex to be matched by any man or woman with "good intuition". The list goes on and on.
It appears that whenever we think computers cannot outsmart humans at some task, it's only a matter of time before we are proven wrong, again and again. How will this affect the labor force? What will happen to the economy in the future, in sight of these rapid changes ahead of us? The answer to these questions is not trivial, and probably nobody knows with certainty. It is my hope that we will soon start a conversation on this topic, which I think is of utmost importance, and that should be at the center of our public debate.
The future of the economy and society is very much uncertain. However, I think it will depend on us, on how we decide to use the prodigious technology that we are developing, and for what purpose. And to ensure that we take the right path, we must start a serious conversation on this issue, before it's too late.


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History of Honda not to be missed
THE Honda Collection Hall, which opened last July, houses one of the most remarkable museums of motor vehicles anywhere in the world.
It is situated close to the Suzuka Formula One racing track - the first world class racing course to be built in Japan.
No motor racing enthusiast should miss an opportunity to visit this gathering of the finest machines to come from Soichiro Honda's motor company.
Some of the most innovative and successful racing machines ever made are displayed in rows in a purpose-built display area.
The course of Soichiro Honda's motorcycle racing ambitions can be traced back to the moment Mr Honda declared the entry for the Isle of Man TT Race in 1956.
Many of the most significant machines since the 1950s and 1960 are on display in perfectly restored condition.
Mike Hailwood's 500cc four-cylinder race bike, on which he won the 1967 Isle of Man TT, is there, along with his six-cylinder 250 cc racer - winner of all 10 races in the 1966 250cc class during the 1966 season.
Nearby is the six-cylinder 350cc racer Hailwood took to victory in the 350 class of the 1967 TT.
Honda's first Formula One Grand Prix car, which debuted in the 1964 West German GP, stands near Richie Ginther's 3,000 cc 1966 car and the 1968 GP car in which John Surtees competed at the Mexican GP.
Honda's production cars are not neglected, with the first Honda road cars, including the pretty little open-top S500, which grew to become the S600 and S800.
The museum is open from 10 am to 5 pm and an admission fee is 300 yen (about HK$22) for adults and 200 yen for children.
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text: Sexual patterns and protogynous sex reversal in the rusty parrotfish, Scarus ferrugineus (Scaridae): histological and physiological studiesEl-Sayedah H. Abdel-Aziz, Fayzah A. Bawazeer, Tamer El-Sayed Ali, Mashael Al-OtaibiFish Physiology and Biochemistry2012Gonadal histology confirmed that Scarus ferrugineus is a diandric protogynous fish. The process of protogynous sex reversal was investigated through histological observations on the gonads of females changing sex to male. This process was divided into three stages on the basis of changes in the structure of the germinal and somatic elements. Ovaries of… (More)


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Album Rating: 4.5You can stream this whole thing from their Bandcamp page.
This looks epic as hell. Good review man, pos'd. FF VI owns.
I just jammed the first track and it was good stuff.
Great review
Album Rating: 5.0@CaptainDooRight
Maybe not for everyone - try listening to Dark Dreamer and Miss. Misery. Those are stand alone songs. The rest are all part of one long concept piece - having shared parts and recurring themes and melodies is the whole idea but certainly something not everyone will enjoy.
Thanks for sharing.
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Bro, Dark Tower is one long song split into six tracks for convenience. Of course it's going to revisit its different parts.
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Scattered areas of minor traffic congestion are reported in the Wyoming Valley this morning.
Free-flowing traffic reported on Interstates 81 and 476. Scattered areas of minor and heavy congestion are reported on East Main Street, as well as Routes 315 and 115.
The North Cross Valley Expressway is free of congestion, but some could be encountered on the off-ramps. The South Cross Valley Expressway is reporting areas of minor congestion in both lanes of travel.
Near the Wyoming Valley Mall, minor congestion is reported on Wyoming Valley Mall Road and extending across Mundy Street and onto Highland Park Boulevard.
Downtown, minor congestion is reported on Wilkes-Barre Boulevard and onto South Wilkes-Barre Boulevard, as well as Hazle, North River and South River streets.
In Kingston, areas of minor congestion are reported on Market Street and Wyoming Avenue throughout the borough.
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Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Hetroluver, Feb 27, 2015.
Oklahoma where are you??
Tulsa Here
Right here...just an hour down the turnpike to OKC (or vice versa).
We are a very real couple...
OKC (Edmond)
Would anyone be interested in starting an Oklahoma meet and greet group? I ask only because it seems interesting to me.
I wouldn't mind. What are you into?
Possibly...what are you thinking?
I was thinking of just a nice lunch meet and greet. Nothing lifestyle related really. It would be nice to have some girlfriends to discuss things with and Stephen would really like to have some hubby buddies to hang with too
Sounds good, especially if in Tulsa
Sounds good. I could only do lunch in Tulsa on a holiday.
Sounds good...OKC area for us. Weekends are tight the next six weeks, although could fit it in with advanced planning.
Could do Tulsa too, although a little harder for us to find the time right now...our schedule will free up in a couple of months
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Curious to know where and how far south?
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