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...another analysis. The contradictions of Kenya - where multiparty democracy competes with feudal tribalism - could be said to be precisely those you would expect in a country racing at breakneck speed towards modernity. Africa is trying to cover in a few decades what took Europe centuries. Chaos and contradiction - Kenyans are just as comfortable with cell-phone banking as they are with bartering - might be an indication of a country on the move. Kenya is changing. Last year's violence hastened the emergence of a highly critical civil-society movement which has become a sobering force in Kenyan politics. And even...
...Part of this conviction is rooted in my own experience. I am a Christian, but my father came from a Kenyan family that includes generations of Muslims. As a boy, I spent several years in Indonesia and heard the call of the azaan at the break of dawn and the fall of dusk. As a young man, I worked in Chicago communities where many found dignity and peace in their Muslim faith...
...Odiambo's backers, green means agricultural bounty. The Kenyan shopkeeper is one of hundreds of agricultural dealers who have been given credit and training by the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), a high-profile effort to boost the production of small-scale farmers through better agricultural technology. Funded by the Rockefeller and Bill and Melinda Gates foundations and chaired by former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the group takes its name from earlier green revolutions in Latin America and Asia, where the introduction of hybrid seeds and chemical fertilizers is credited with rescuing hundreds...
...have been pushed around enough.' RAILA ODINGA, Kenyan Prime Minister, calling for elections to form a new power-sharing government, after President Mwai Kibaki accused Odinga's party of "fomenting a coup...
...past, a man like him might have been happy to settle into his seat at the high table of Kenyan politics. Instead, the former journalist uncovered a far-reaching scam extending to the highest levels of his party and then publicized it, thus becoming the first senior official in Africa to blow the whistle on his own government. The story of his struggle to do so, told in Michela Wrong's new book It's Our Turn to Eat, provides a rare insider's look at corruption in a developing society. It also shines an unflattering light on the complacency...