Tell you what...I have an idea.
Step 1 - Print out this entire thread as well as Karua Has Resigned and Martha Karua Resignation
Step 2 - Carefully replace the contributors (ok,most) on these 3 threads with the following characters...RAO,KIbaki,W.Ruto,Kalonzo,M.Karua,Ababu,Nyongo,Mungatana,Kiraitu,Kimunya etc...let's just say the Top 25 most prominent political figures in Kenya today. I will be nice and give you a free hand to match each SK member here with his/her political equivalent.
Step 3 - Now,reread the 3 threads...slowly.
Doesn't it all fit perfectly?
Hence? The Kenyan youth (the majority here I guess)...forever remain the leaders of tomorrow...no new ideology...same old conversations...arguing about tribal loyalties and supremacy...only difference is a little less white hair among the participants.
So...Next time someone comes here calling for an Obama in Kenya...and the way politician X is so bad and MP Y is so thick...plse spare me...we are no better.
I am willing to bet that come 2012 & 2017 (if the nation survives that long),we will have an even more tribal leadership than today.
I don't expect the current generation to take over leadership... Leadership will surprise them because the previous generation will be dying off and we being unprepared,will continue speaking,singing and thinking the same thing that the old guard was arguing about in the 60's...talk about a smooth transition.
We are stuck in a 40-year time warp on political thought.