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...Root of Kenya's Chaos As a Kenyan, I was troubled by "The Demons that Still Haunt Africa," which distorted the situation in Kenya, either out of ignorance or in keeping with the Western media's romance with the bleak face of Africa [Jan. 21]. Poverty may predispose people to violence, but the postelection skirmishes in Kenya were not a natural consequence of poverty. Kenyans have been poor but peaceful for decades. Rather, the protests are the language of the weak against a regime that rigged itself into power. The violence is motivated by century-old tribal wounds that...
...fell short of reminding readers that the same demons haunt Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas. They arise from the evil in human nature. And by the way, Kenya is not Africa's sole "island of stability." My country, Ghana, and many others are poor but stable. Africa has been marginalized in the American media, except when it comes to bloodshed. Unfortunately, you affect Africa's effort to develop as much by what you choose not to report. William K. Agadzi, Eorcester, Mass...
Professor Emmanuel K. Akyeampong said that with recent immigrants from Africa trickling into the older black population, “the African-American identity is becoming more nuanced and more complex...
...political leaders are currently talking, under the mediating hand of former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, with a view to heading off the slide into catastrophe. Still, there are clear signs that the tribal conflict is now taking an increasingly organized form, which U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Jendayi Frazer characterized as "clear ethnic cleansing." As in the conflicts in what was once Yugoslavia, the purpose of the increasingly organized mobs killing and threatening members of other tribes was to force all members of that tribe to leave an area. And it may take a lot more than...
...Kikuyu are going to find themselves as a single ethnic group very isolated if Kibaki refuses to go for a recount or some sort of power-sharing arrangement," said Binaifer Nowrojee, director of the Open Society Initiative for East Africa. "As long as there is international attention, there will be restraint. The day the international community is taken by other crises on the globe, Kenya will be left to stew in its own juices and it will get worse. This is the kind of situation if it's not resolved now it will blow up later, and that's where...