@alphadot wont like this. Trouble in the US and now more trouble in the UK....

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-45083275

All Kenya's election problems are self-inflicted.
Many of DRCs election issues are because of the sheer size of the country and the remoteness of some regions and the lack of infrastructure.

And in DRC, tribal warfare typically doesn't happen because of elections. If you look closely at the Lendu-Hema conflict for example, you will find that its being fueled by outsiders like Uganda or Rwanda or the UK who are pouring petrol on century old grievances that have nothing to do with elections.

In Kenya, voting is 98% tribal and all the tribal conflicts we have seen in the last 30 years have been fueled by election issues.

Why ?
Because our leaders campaign by explicitly pitting ethnic groups against each other. Then they proceed to rig elections which is like putting iodine on wounds.

So yes Kenya is worse than DRC when it comes to elections.

Won't take long before we see a Indian/Pakistani PM.

Benjamin Disraeli was Jewish right?

The Prime Minister of Ireland, Leo Varadkar, is the son of an Indian immigrant, Ashok Varadkar.

The US had their first black president in our own Barrack Obama.

It seems that these countries elect their leaders based on merit, rather than place of origin.

In the tribal based politics of Kenya, is it even remotely possible, that one day we may elect a European, Asian, or indeed a non Kenyan African?

Add Sadiq Khan...the mayor of London born of British Pakistanis.

Boris Johnson's racist views about Africa. He recommends that Africa should be recolonized to get it out of the current mess.


https://blogs.spectator....cant-blame-colonialism/


https://www.independent....oris-johnson-on-uganda/




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Boris Johnson is not off target. Kenya was better off under colonial rule. Just go look at the "Old Nairobi" thread.

And I would say Mkoloni did not mistreat Africans as much as Mwafrika has done in Kenya.

When kina Jomo kenyatta were dissidents, in the 1950s, Muzungu tried them and sent them to prison. When Kenyatta took over, he had no time for such niceties. If you became a dissident, you were tossed in detention without trial or summarily executed. And this man had the audacity to tell us how bad things were under Mkoloni.

And Mkoloni did not kill as many Kenyans as Mwafrika has done.

Mwafrika fought Muzungu for Independence and now he has readily given the country to the Chinese who now own us.

It is time for some true self reflection.

Of course you do.

Boris Johnson is not off target. Kenya was better off under colonial rule. Just go look at the "Old Nairobi" thread.

And I would say Mkoloni did not mistreat Africans as much as Mwafrika has done in Kenya.

When kina Jomo kenyatta were dissidents, in the 1950s, Muzungu tried them and sent them to prison. When Kenyatta took over, he had no time for such niceties. If you became a dissident, you were tossed in detention without trial or summarily executed. And this man had the audacity to tell us how bad things were under Mkoloni.

And Mkoloni did not kill as many Kenyans as Mwafrika has done.


Mwafrika fought Muzungu for Independence and now he has readily given the country to the Chinese who now own us.

Its time for some true self reflection.

See an excerpt from Elkin's book.

I soon realized that the British did detain the women and children, though not in the official camps but rather in some eight hundred enclosed villages that were scattered throughout the Kikuyu countryside. These villages were surrounded by spiked trenches, barbed wire, and watchtowers, and were heavily patrolled by armed guards. They were detention camps in all but name. Once I added all of the Kikuyu detained in these villages to the adjusted camp population, I discovered that the British had actually detained some 1.5 million people, or nearly the entire Kikuyu population.