Shades of Black,tribalism in Kenya and the pup in the whitehouse

I have been missing in action from the blogger world.If you are a regular reader then many apologies...

Today here iam neither happy nor sad...only a headache.Perhaps,a sign of mild malaria from the thousand mosquito bites i got on Friday night or may be a hangover from the three day drinking spree celebrating the ascension of a black man to the white house.If you could have asked me one month ago who i preferred to be the 44th president of America, i could have told you John McCain.Why? you would have wondered.....here is why...

The main reason would be the fact that iam a Gikuyu.The Gikuyu in me never wanted Obama to win just because Obama is a luo.I visited my friends the other day and sought their opinion and analysis of the just concluded American elections and it was clear that the majority of Gikuyus never wanted Obama to win just because he had a "drop" of luo blood.I am scared by these findings.How comes even people of my generation are this tribal??

I did some quick thinking and evaluated some case studies and it emerged that the Gikuyus are the most tribal ethnic group in Kenya.I have denied this fact for a long time but after looking at myself in the mirror, i think am guilty of tribalism of the first degree.My friends even went on further and played me a mugithi song that was forthrightly anti Obama.Truly, the Gikuyus are the cowboys of Kenya...what with their liking of leather jackets,and cowboy hats.If America was Kenya then all Gikuyus would have been republicans....No one would have evicted them from their farms for voting for McCain.

Although Obama is the president of America, Africa is still in a lot of problems.The African who lives overseas is totally different from the African in the motherland.There is war in the Congo,turmoil and grief in Darfur, IDPs in Kenya,"Real freedom" in Somalia just to mention but a few.

Politicians in Kenya will be heard boasting about how democratic Kenya is, while at night incite their tribesmen to kill other tribes for practicing their democratic right of choosing who they want to be their leader.It is in Kenya where Obama comes from, that politicians, tell their tribesmen to encroach into the forests while they very well know that by doing so, millions and perhaps billions of people, animals and plants will be directly negatively affected.

It is in Kenya, where politicians call for international intervention when they don't get into statehouse (read become president)but talk about the sovereignty of the nation when a report on abuse of human rights after elections, recommends for prosecution in the international courts.

The Obama's are shopping for a pup to accompany them to the whitehouse.You will hear brainwashed Kenyans exclaim....."how sweet"....If i was asked i would recommend the indigenous African dog...the one that resembles the wild dogs of the Kalahari.The one that feeds on ugali and sukuma wiki, just as humans do.

Obama might probably do a homecoming.It will be the biggest day in Kenya.We don't want to see the contempt that past US presidents have shown towards our frail sovereign nations.We dont expect our president to be frisked by Obama's security or Obamas dog to sniff our Presidents limo for a suspected bomb..afterall president or not president we are all mortals