I found this amusing:
http://www.youtube.com/w...kIPOhw4_DLK9gnl004wshUk
Moi had gone to console the Karume family. They go outside to take a picture and Moi tries to get the attention of young Karume's son who clearly does not know him and snubs him as he runs into his mother's arms.
It got me thinking, there is a whole generation of young people today who do not know who "Baba wa Taifa, mtukufu Rais Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi, Amiri Jeshi mkuu wa majeshi yote ya Kenya" is.
How times have changed. I remember the very first time I saw Moi "with my eyes". It was one of those things in the village I grew up in, a boy who had seen Moi "with his eyes" could silence all others who had only seen him on pictures.
"Wewe unasema nini, ushawahi ona Moi na macho yako?" and you knew you could not speak your ignorance so you simply gave up and just shut up. So the opportunity to see him presented itself when he came to open a government project in the local town. Of course all the local schools were closed and we all went on the streets to welcome him. He was coming at 11 but we were all at the venue by 8 in the morning. I remember peering from behind a mesh wire fence and waiting in the hot morning sun amid fellow boys pushing and shoving for the best vantage point. He came, he got out of his car, raised his rungu and went into the building, I think I probably saw him for about 10 seconds or less but it was a most gratifying experience........ I had seen him "with my own eyes."