Kibaki creating ten orligarchs and a million paupers

Just read Martha Karua's rants justifying Kibaki's refusal to consult widely on the appointment of the ECK commissioners. It reeks of despicable arrogance. She is clearly inebriated with power. I have argued elsewhere that for a long time Karua was Kibaki's best kept secret, the only good pie in a storehouse going bad. Today, she's become a footsoldier of the admin whose only allegience is to power. Oh, and the other day Prof. Kibwana, one of the worst things that ever happened to academia, talked about Kibaki's economic miracle! How a professor can be so vain beats me. This so called economic growth is creating orligarchs and millions of paupers. What we are seeing is the annihilation of the middle class who are perhaps the only ones able to keep political power in check. This mirage, now the so-called economic miracle sounds more and more like a well orchestrated attempt by the political elite to keep the restless population quiet. In the post colony, you simply have to populate the public space with such lies. Eventually they take the form of a fetish. The only consolation however is that they dont last forever. History tells us it won't last long. As for Karua, well, I'm cringing at the fact that I have in fact dignified her rantings with this.

Big brother and the politics of race

I didn't know that vanity can be so riveting. The race row on Big Brother has transformed into an international news story, from London to Mumbai to New York. Oh Jade Goody! Just what is this woman about? But when everyone's complaining about her foul mouth and her racist rants, a chief executive of a TV channel sees no wrong in broadcasting to millions prejudices of a bigot who was most unfortunate to get famous. Racism need not be overt. Indeed, it is in its subtlety that it is most vicious. You dont need to call a black man or an asian lad a f'**n paki or nigger to be racist. Racism resides in apparently innocent acts. Those who hide from this reality hide in the argument that racism is a complex issue. That you cant see it in arguments. For heaven's sake when one calls you Shilpa Fuckadilous claiming she cant pronounce your surname because she doesnt care to know, just what would you call this! Is the rest of humanity obliged to know how to pronounce Smith or Tweedy? Thats what the channel 4 execs are telling us. Thats what the bigot Jade Goody wants us to believe. We know the politics of euphemisms and how they conveniently mask reality. That's what channel 4 is about. Thats what Jade Goody is about. So riveting but so disturbing this vanity called Big Brother. Racism is alive.