The wealth of social commentary on Kenya by Kenyans in the diaspora is simply mind boggling. Browsing about the net looking for something of ‘maana’ to read up on I some how found myself on a blog called Kenyan pundit by a law student at Harvard. Not only did the author have quite interesting blogs of his own but the site also provided me with links to various interesting blogs focusing on Kenya and Africa as a whole.
I couldn’t help but feel proud of ‘my people’ reading through the posts and taking in the potpourie of ideas and silently marveling at the quality of writing we seem to so easily generate. Up Kenya! Up!-)
Anyway, we are now in the thick of the Darfur awareness week here at UT. I wasn’t able go to the letter writing party today but I hear that the turn out is really good. The movie for yesterdays program arrived about 15 minutes before the show was schedualed to star! I was beginning to despair, I guess the timing must have had some significance.
It was really good considering that it was a rough cut. The movie is called ‘A message from home is essentially a collection of interviews from of people at various refugee camps and settlements in Darfur and Neighboring Chad. I like the way the interviews strove to show both the pathos of their current situation and their will to go on and rebuild their lives. Kusdos to the producers!
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