Betrayal, Blood and Blindness: Kenya’s Ethnic Tragedy and the Class War We Refuse to Fight
When the Hunters Become the Hunted: The Kikuyu Tragedy and the Politics of Amnesia In a cruel twist of history’s irony, the Kikuyu—once custodians of state power and beneficiaries of its coercive arsenal—now find themselves bleeding in the streets, felled by the very bullets that once silenced the cries of others. Today, their youth lie prostrate beneath the boots of the same police force that was unleashed on Luo protesters in Kisumu, Kibera, and Kondele for over a decade. And yet, when Luos wailed over state violence, property destruction was cited as justification, and their funerals were met with indifference,…
