Stop The Madness

The situation in Kenya has not seemed to improve much since my last post. Interestingly, just days after the election, I heard from my friends and colleagues in Kenya that things might not be as bad as the media had made it out. Now, however, a couple weeks later, the media coverage has really diminished (at least in the US) and it seems like things continue to get worse. Inside Kibera slum members of the Kikuyu tribe have been driven from their homes and shops, which in many cases were burned to the ground, and these people are now living in a makeshift tent city inside a national park. The World Food Programme has even had to step in to provide basis food stuffs to people who only weeks ago had small but thriving businesses inside Kibera.

It's unclear what will set things back on a course of normalcy in Kenya as power-sharing negotiations seem to have limited support from the opposition. With Kenya previously thought of as a model pro-business stability, prolonged uncertainly will not only be devastating to Kenya, it could have a ripple effect throughout the Great Lakes region as investors lose confidence. Let's hope this madness stops sooner, rather than later!