Shiundu
My blogs
| Industry | Publishing |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Newsroom factotum |
| Location | Nairobi, Kenya |
| Introduction | Good people, First, let me confess that I love Chinua Achebe's book "The trouble with Nigeria." I have been reading and re-reading the book many times. But, my goodness, the similarities between Nigeria and Kenya are abundant. The leadership poverty is the foremost. Yes, we have Kenya Vision 2030, but really, there is nothing much to gloat over three years later. Just lofty conferences with the hackneyed "The Kenya We Want" title, a bloated Cabinet, a media obsessed with politics, a public that literally worships politicians, some clergy who deliberately mislead the flock "just because they pray for us", hungry citizens in arid areas...problems galore. But Kenya is a nice country. It has nice people, magnificent views, some sane police officers who hate corruption, sane journalists who practice public policy journalism, stable economy (but a choking per capita income) and patriots, like me, who hate the maxim, again to copy from Chinua Achebe's sticker, "Love this country or Leave it." In short, I'd just say, I love my country, but I hate the politics of government.I love my country. Keep reading. |
| Interests | Politics, Public Policy, Books, People |
| Favorite Books | The Godfather, Factfulness, Dining with Terrorists, My Nigeria, Dance of the Jakaranda, The Cockroach Dance, Terrorists of the Aberdares, The Sicilian, The Gargoyle Conspiracy, The Pelican Brief, The Sigma Protocol, Parsifal Mosaic, Time to kill, Siku Njema, Shamba la Wanyama, Asali Chungu, Kitumbua Kimeingia Mchanga...oh my, I cant list all that in here. |
When you hesitate before hitting snooze on your alarm clock, are you being lazy?
I guess not. Just practical