Yesterday was another public holiday and the inauguration of President Uhuru Kenyatta went off in Nairobi with a lot of fanfare. All was quiet here on the coast and you would have thought it was a Sunday with not much going on. Interestingly the BBC was not transmitting for a lot of the day and the electricity was very bad from the afternoon until now. My refrigerator is getting warm! Not very good signs for the future ahead of us!
The opposition in NBI was not allowed to congregate at the place they wanted to have a memorial for all the people who have died/been killed in the last four months. The US Embassy didn't send us any warnings so maybe it wasn't too bad. The opposition leader has now announced that he will be sworn into the presidential office on 12th Dec, Independence Day. Clearly the opposition has some unknown plans and this political roller coaster isn't over yet.
Today is the anniversary of the death of Dorothy Day, a woman of peace who spent her whole life fighting injustice and serving those most in need. She could show us the way if we would just pay attention and learn something about active nonviolence.
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