The AfricaNews articles of mfarafina

  1. Food For Thought


    - Does History Have to Repeat itself? It is the case of the Nazarite’s word – He who hath no blemish cast the first stone. In the Kenyan parliament. But unlike the biblical folks who walked away in the shame that all bore damned scars of guilt our rather innovative Mps are colluding and forming a block of thieves that will go to all odds to protect a fellow thief in hope of getting the same sentiment come their turn of trial. And since they are the judges of their own trials them the trials might all together not be mentioned anyway. You should have seen them clamoring when we dropped 80 percent of their predecessors that they will be different. That’s the element that…

  2. Math of regression


    Read the poem below and help me tackle the issue of party funding in Africa and the reasons behind it. - "Well my country does do math Like check this out a man buys a plate of simple food for one million then his host in the African spirit of giving back accord him billions of taxpayer money and scandals of oil. I am mad to assume the plates of a "million lunch" were quite a number and so how many more billion taxpayer money is the host willing to part with down the worst phase of a Kenyan government" In this poem I chose to reflect on an aspect of African politics. Where do our parties get the funding to run multibillion presidential campaigns? Is i…

  3. Political Failure


    - The Grand Failure Optimisim that met the signing of the Anan brockred mediation after the Kenyan post election violence has quickly and steadily derailled into the oblivion of disillusionment. Kenyans who expecting that now that the principals of the three most dominant parties during the 2007 general elections were coincidentally pitted together in a twist of fate hoped that they would rally behind each other and together work towards acheiving their manifestos which they flashed to the electorate in fancy coloured leaflets during the electioneering period. But that was to come utterly wrong as the politicians are at it again in supremacy battles and insignificant infighting. Grand corr…