Revolution Devolution Evolution... Or just Revolution Again

Here goes, I am going to start with I am not big on politics but I am huge on my country, and as I"ve said before I'll say again, this country belongs as much to me as it does to Kalonzo, Raila, Kenyatta, Ruto and Mudavadi (in no particular order).

I may step on a few toes here but we're all Kenyan's if we can take five years and three months of the tenth parliament heck you can take this blog post too. If you're going to reply kindly do it with some grace. If you have a counter argument kindly state it and no, vulgarities do not put more weight behind your point. Another caveat I am not an Uhuru Kenyatta supporter....

Suppose we were able to share meanings freely without a compulsive urge to impose our view or conform to those of others and without distortion and self-deception. Would this not constitute a real revolution in culture. 

And since I was smack dab in the middle of PEV (post election violence for you non Kenyan readers) I shall state that it was no proper revolution, (I may be wrong on this).  Now since I started with the confession that I am not an Uhuru Kenyatta supporter let me make another confession. I am even less of a Raila Odinga supporter. 

I however firmly believe that: 

Condemnation without investigation serves no one except your incompetence to learn.

Here's my condemnation of our prime minister. The man has been in parliament for 15 years and with nothing to show, was minister for roads when not a single inch of new roads was constructed in Kenya, holds the ownership deed for the Kisumu molases plant yet claims to be against corruption. Says nepotism killed our country and appointed his sister an ambassador...(no I do not know any qualifications that got his sister that job.) Now from this alone I wonder how on earth the man has such a fanatical following? I asked a couple of dear friends why they still troop behind him and I still don't get a solid answer apart from: "Kibaki seemed inert..." That's all well and good but Kibaki's weaknesses are not Raila's strengths.

Now I dont know how Raila got soo many people behind him, what he promised them or what they see (if you see anything I dont see I would like to know, if I accuse him falsely kindly let me know I will gracefully retract).

My biggest bone of contention with Raila Odinga, PEV, because unfortunately in my bones I can feel PEV II is just round the corner. Now how come the biggest beneficiary of PEV is not at the ICC? Wasn't the slogan 'No Raila no Peace?' And he somehow convinced us he was a democrat. He managed to convince people he won fairly but wont tell us what political genius gave him a hundred and twenty percent of the vote in Kisumu town (yes 120%). How then did he win fairly? Let's watch out ladies and gentlemen because:

Those who make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities

And we all saw the atrocities of PEV. Well Odinga was not all alone, it is William Ruto who paraded someone to say that elections were inflated. THe constituencies that were allegedly rigged, Juja, Molo and Nithi. Each of them returned less than 78% total vote count how does that now compare with 120%. He was crying wolf long before the election day and on voting day he said his name was not on the voters register. He trooped back to the KICC to complain to the electoral commission. He read from a prepared speech... How was that speech prepared in the fifteen minutes it took him to drive from Kibera to KICC then issue a press conference and return to Kibera where his name had magically appeared on the register...

If I claim to be fair why I'm I only pointing out Raila's flaws? Because as far as I can see he is well on his way to being president. His co-perpetrator ie the President is not running for office and there's no point flogging dead horses.

The Devolution of The Kenyans

Now work with me Kenyans, because in this country

'if we do not hang together; we shall hang separately'

I recently asked a friend of mine, "Is it entirely coincidence that you're Luo and you like Raila and I am not and I don't like Raila" and she said "I am not entirely sure, mabe we just want to vote in those who are most like us..." Well I must say my friend is a very pleasant girl, she is nothing like Raila in any way stated above. How then did he manage to convince her that she is like him, isn't it our houses that burned for him to get his own entourage and cabinet positions to dish out never mind that they dint give him his mobile toilet and half carpet. Now Kenyans that is is time for elections and yet again we drink of this primordial soup of ethnicity and we emerge less evolved.

We are still devolved and convinced that we're a collection of 42 tribes and not one nation. And now with counties and all we have government boundaries to demarcate tribes. We're just as divided and sensible leaders like Peter Kenneth shall get no vote worth noting... Mine shall be among those ones.

The Revolution of The Kenyans

George Orwel said: "One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship".  And revolutions are famous for evaporating in a blood and euphoria and leaving in the crucible the muck and filth of a new bureaucracy. Now there was a failed coup in 82, former president Moi ensured that there will not be another attempted military coup in the for seeable future.


Yours truly in his auto biography spoke of his role in the 82 coup and in 07 with the help of Ruto and Charity Ngilu tried a civilian coup that earned him half a government. In 02 we had a coup of euphoria. Where we were convinced we had thrown out the Moi regime and all it's ills. Like Fidel Castro says "A revolution is a dictatorship of the oppressed over the oppressors" and with Moi out we thought we had done that... had we really?

And now that we've done devolution and attempted revolutions and discovered that neither work how's about we grow up, how's about we evolve?

The Evolution of The Kenyans

Darwin tried to convince us that evolution was a survival for the fittest race, that stronger species trample weaker species. The story of how the third world works.

But I think that

when an honest man discovers he's been deceived he will either stop to be deceived or stop to be honest

I submit to you that we have been deceived, we have noticed we have been deceived and it's not in our nature to stop being honest.

Evolution is a cooperation not a competition. Species that compete are not sustainable and the most successful species are the ones that cooperate with each other and with their environment. Case in point wildebeests, lions, humans, ants, elephants etc...

I think it's time that we realised none of the fore runners have any of your particular interests at heart, if they do they have done nothing to show it this far, so this time let's walk out of that primordial soup a better people. We have not got any better if we think Musalia Mudavadi will be struck by some form of genius when he becomes president and transform the country, neither shall Uhuru Kenyatta or Raila Odinga or William Ruto or I dare Say Martha Karua... all of them have nothing note worthy from their many years in service. These are men and women who will happily seat in their offices while Kenya burns if it gives them absolute power. People who have grown inefficient in todays society and playing the politics of post colonial Kenya. All I ask if you vote any of them, tame your expectations, we're a resilient people we survived Moi and we'll survive whoever it is who takes over after Kibaki.