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Our country in the eyes of South Africa
Since the demise of apartheid, there has been a remarkable upsurge of interaction between Kenya and South Africa. Despite this rise in people-to-people contact, one depicts a lingering sense of "unease" at the governmental and the SA news media levels. Several instances come to mind.
Kenya -- The way forward for our leadership
It is critical that Kenya's leadership faces the problem of youth. Show me a country that is saturated with unemployed, able-bodied and substantially educated youth and I will show you a country that is sitting on a time bomb. As it stands now, that country is Kenya. Visit any Kenyan town and, invariably, you will witness awesome unemployment.
Foreign interests in Kenya's crisis raising eyebrows
An increasing number of analysts are now convinced that the current crisis in Kenya is not derived from ethnic hatred; it is due to politicised ethnicity. Politicians have conveniently contaminated ethnicity to fulfil their personal ambitions. And the contesting political forces have found themselves hand-in-hand with like-minded external allies.
Africa's case of the 'walking wounded'
Both Jacob Zuma and Raila Odinga have been dismissed as reckless politicians. Yet, last week Raila nearly wrested the presidency. Perhaps Zuma's victory as president of the ANC 10 days earlier should have heralded political danger to Mwai Kibaki's strategists.