If this were a decade ago yesterday would have marked the start of another civil war in Kenya. But times have changed. The elite reign unbothered by humanity.
After the 2007 flawed election the 400,000 – 1½ million residents of Nairobi’s Kibera slum began violent protests that spread across the country like wildfire. Yesterday, bulldozers not ballot boxes plowed through their homes. Starting at 5 a.m. machines demolished tin huts, schools and health centers, and hundreds of police in riot gear pushed away old people and school children, and a modern world’s 200-foot super highway began to take form.
“Residents were… peacefully picking their belongings, with no signs of skirmishes.”
One week from today thirty years of Zimbabwe could be discarded and a new age for this beautiful, resource-rich country could begin. Or not.
Look to the Dark Continent for light at the end of the tunnel. Cautiously.
The Obama family just took a “secret safari” in Tanzania in a private reserve owned by an 
Today in Johannesburg President 
An attempt today by Tanzania to provide long awaited statistics about its tourism fell flat on its face, as the agency reporting the statistics reported widely different numbers on different websites.
Until Trump Africans relied heavily on an unilateral trade policy first passed by Congress in 2000 
Our universe is composed of the natural world and our human imprint on it. Rarely the twain shall meet in a modern world. But from time to time they do: look at northern Kenya, today.
Yesterday’s much heralded peace accord between Ethiopia and Eritrea was seen as a glimmer of hope that people power and democratic ideas might be at last challenging some of Africa’s most autocratic regimes.
As the world fractures, the Chinese/African partnership of the last two decades is also coming apart, and the cleaver is racism. It’s a remarkable story and one that mirrors similar stories all around the world.
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Recently on a local birdwalk with some neophytes my colleague guide and I knew that we had to find something big quick. Then as luck would have it in swept a turkey vulture and with great enthusiasm we began explaining all the marvelous things about it.
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British and Americans a century ago thought Kenya would become a major cotton producer, thought hippos ate bushes (they don’t), and were shooting so many elephants that most of the large tuskers were already gone.