8 Months on tape

If you haven't heard enough of me, you can listen to a couple of the debriefs I've been doing so much lately.

Maine Public Broadcasting is the organization that so graciously gave me a leave of absence to come to Kenya... http://www.mpbn.net/asx/080104nics.asx

Marketplace is a great business program that folks in the public radio world like to jokingly call "business news for liberal arts majors". In my opinion, they do some of the best radio storytelling in the United States. My debrief is certainly not the best thing on the show, but you can also see more photos from Korogocho there... http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/01/14/kenya_nics/

Comments

[Kambo Mwangi]

Great blog Sara. You may want to add an rss reader to your blog.

[TIm Harris]

Suppressed tribalism, you say ????

Seriously. Your comments bug me. Guess you want the United States to come in and "democratize" Kenya. Make their inhabitants "more economically sound." Please. One would think you are employed by the CIA with such rhetoric.

[Sara]

Hi Tim,

What's that saying about when you bug people...

Have you lived in Kenya? Do you know East Africa? I'm still learning.

But my comments are based on things many Kenyans have said to me... that this inter-tribal tension has existed since independence in the 60s, if not before... that this conflict would have exploded no matter who won the election...

I don't know if democracy is the ideal form of government. Having lived in the US and Canada, watching French and British politics, there are clearly enormous flaws in democracy as we know it. I certainly don't think the US has any business messing around in Kenyan politics.

But Kenyans want democracy. That much is clear.

You wanna take me to the mat on that one? I'll start collecting statements.

Meanwhile I will take the CIA thing as a compliment. I always thought I was too interested in telling stories to work for any intelligence agency.

Sara