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The Kenyan crisis unfolds

Mzungu is blogging news from the ground in Nairobi as she gets it.

It scares me. Yesterday I used Rwanda as an example of tribalism/tribal-politics to try explain the Kenyan political situation to a friend. I used Rwanda merely because of how tribalism in that case divided a country was something she’d understand having seen movies and documentaries not because of the real horror it eventually became. Reading Mzungu’s reports I fear my example may have been too close to the truth in the way I didn’t intend.

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  1. You’re so right Primal. If one week ago you’d mentioned the words ‘genocide’ or ‘tribalism’ people in Kenya would have laughed at you to think that our country would ever come to that. Today they sigh and pray!

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    1. Mzungu Chick on January 4th, 2008 at 10:22 am

  2. We’re only a few centuries away from tribal faction fights ourselves.

    Cromwell forged the Irish nation from fighting tribes; but we shared a language, a culture and (mostly) a religion.

    It will be trickier elsewhere.

    I hope the bigwigs in Kenya are big enough to get together over this; at the moment it looks as though tehy are exacerbating it.

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    2. aonghus on January 4th, 2008 at 12:25 pm

  3. White girl - It seems to be calming a bit. Or at least folk are talking now. I hope I’m reading the situation right.

    Aonghus - One community in Ireland is still involved in tribal conflict.

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    3. Primal Sneeze on January 5th, 2008 at 7:02 am

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