The House of NARC Burns Down

[Onyango Oloo]

Onyango Oloo in Morocco

1.0. Casablanca, Rabat, Bouznika...

Bouznika is a petite town, approximating the often startling beauty of women of a similar stature. Her sidewalks are lined with juicy lookin clementine shrubs- for the uninitiated, there is no difference between a clementine, mandarine, tangerine, orange or any of her citrus siblings.

But look:


This...

is a clementine;

this is

a mandarin...

this is

a tangerine

Surely you know what an orange, a grapefruit, a lemon and a lime....

Hopefully we are all on the same citric page.

And this is how part of Bouznika looks like:





Walking to this cybercafe, I spied a trio of dilapidated horses amble past me, piteous beast of burden egged on by their threadbare worker owners rather than strutting four legged toys of the rich.

What brings me to Bouznika is the Preparatory Assembly of the Maghreb Social Forum. We arrived in Casablanca, called Caza by the locals) on Thursday morning from Bamako in Mali and drove straight to Rabat which is to Morocco what Ottawa is to Canada) a government town.

Speaking of Canadians, it was more than doubly ironic to find that our tour guide was none other than a bilingual intern from southern Ontario on a placement with the Maghreb Social Forum.

She took us to the








casbah in Rabat, stunning in its ancient magnificence and drenched in an often bloodied history as you can see from this link:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casbah

Later we went to the souk





which is inside the

Medina.

2.0. Sharpening Contradictions in Nairobi....

Contrast the above section with these two links:

nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=56&newsid=66130

eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=35666

In Marxist jargon, contradtrictions are not quite they are in regular Anglais lexicon. Some ideological purists sniff at the following explanation by the late Chinese doyen, Mao Ze Dong:

www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_17.htm

Here is not the time to split semantic hairs.

Essentially what we are seeing within the Kibaki regime and more widely within the Kenyan political mainstream is a sharpening of the internal conflicts within the ruling elite.

Anglo Leasing may have added merely the latest log to the raging fire.

3.0. What Does This Leave Ordinary Wananchi?

Do you we just stare from the sidelines at the conflagration, cheering now this side of the tug of war, now the other side?

I am just gettingd up. Unfortunately for you, deart reader, I will have to leave it there and rush back to the Rashid Moulaye Youth Complex for the closing of the Preparatory Assembly for the Maghreb Social Forum.

I will continue this essay in Bamako and definitely complete it in Nairobi...

Onyango Oloo

Bouznika, Morocco

[roughrider]

3.1. Kenyans have lost the ability to be enraged. Too many scandals have numbed us. That is the reason why there is as yet not massive outpourings of rage, no spontaneous street demonstrations and an apparent trivialization of grave matters of corruption, famine and disaster by the state.

3.2. Alternatively able political and civil society mobilizers are nowhere to be seen. Only the press is working. Uhuru kenyatta says "I will lead street protests" and we all know that he lacks that ability. Only Raila Odinga can lead any effective street protests. Besides Mr kenyatta is a wolf in sheep skin. He is too rich to be the leader for a poor country. In fact the wealth of the kenyatta's should be declared a national disaster. His association and links with the networks of corruption are not in doubt.

3.3. I apologize for hijacking an incomplete essay and using it for purely personal and selfish ends.