I think Obama is getting ready to put Kenya politicians under the blow torch,if this story is to be used as a pointer. He is obviously very disgusted with the Kenya leadership.

http://www.nation.co.ke/...0/-/6dt46h/-/index.html

I am really looking forward to this. I think I will watch his Ghana trip and follow it very closely.

Ongeza the Hague dance going on and we might just be hopefully looking at turning the corner.


I've noticed the youth in particular coming in to a workplace with a completely outsized notion of their own value and importance... just a thinly-veiled arrogance. May be the credit crunch induced recession is whats needed to remind us all about the value of hard work.... By Anonymous

Seems kimanderu is a PNUer. Am I losing my mind or wasn't there a racist/tribalist comment attached to his silly comment. Obama is NOT Kenyan not matter what many ignorant Kenyans think. Kenyans did not and cannot vote for an American president. Many Kenyans can't even vote (fairly) for a Kenyan prez! For all of BO's gushing about his father,BO was brought up by his mother & grandmother.

Greedy when others are fearful,Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase WB

Obama is not god neither is MK or RAO.Stop this culture of worshipping people,that is why we are where we are as a nation.Let him offer solutions otherwise he is part of the problem

TOMORROW WILL BE BETTER

@ kimandere,you are the one who is a idiot you should consider taking some panadol or smthin(sorry!) Obama has the best interest for Kenya and clearly i doubt if you pay attention to what Obama says. He is just saying the simple truth,Kenya has a problem politically and if he comes to kenya it will be like he has 'embraced' the problem,open your mind!!!!!

Laughter is the best medicine........................Don't worry be happy

Obama has more integrity in his small finger than the entire cabinet of Kenya...

Greedy when others are fearful,Very fearful when others are greedy - to paraphrase WB

anyone who finds Obama offensive....

condescending....

insulting...

is either above the age of reason.....

ie 48 years....

or someone who has benefited from...

corruption....

nepotism......

political sponsorship.......

and should not be allowed to speak in public.......

unless they can display a certificate of sanity from Mathare Hosipto......

I'm the real Massey F.....shut your mouth

@Obi-K

You have a point. Checkout an excerpt from his speech in Ghana:

'It is easy to point fingers,and to pin the blame for these problems on others. Yes,a colonial map that made little sense bred conflict,and the West has often approached Africa as a patron,rather than a partner. But the West is not responsible for the destruction of the Zimbabwean economy over the last decade,or wars in which children are enlisted as combatants. In my father’s life,it was partly tribalism and patronage in an independent Kenya that for a long stretch derailed his career,and we know that this kind of corruption is a daily fact of life for far too many.'

Without making any excuses for our failures as a continent,i think Obama got his history completely wrong here. History cannot erase the contribution US made to the tragedy that is Angola,Liberia and Sierra Leone. Remember Mobutu in Zaire, America's key ally in Africa during the cold war? America clearly had a role to play.

Lets face it. If it is in America's interests to see,hear and speak no evil,that is exactly what they will do. However,i accept what he eventually said:

'..Africa’s future is up to Africans'