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On Political Pilgrimage
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William Kalombo , Mutua Mutua , Peter Mugai , Fred Ombati
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Mutua Mutua Frida Owinga Herman Githinji Chris Githaiga Dr . Kellen Kiambati Fawzia Ali-Kimanthi Dr . Maureen Owiti Dr . Wale Akinyemi Diana Obath Michael Nzule Anthony Taiti Rose Odengo Enock Wandera Thrity Engineer -Mbuthia Jonathan Marucha Dr . Johansen Oduor Innocent Tibayeita Robert Wamai Dr . Clifford Ferguson Ernestilla Bahati Priscah Motogwa Alice Ngatia Soyinka Witness Kevin Mofokeng Carolyne Gathuru Anne Joyce Wambui Maureen Jagona Okore Christine Nyandat Joseph Lunani Kepha Nyanumba Jan Okonji Joan Vida Eugene Omolo Caroline Mwazi Richard Wanjohi Murithi Magiri Michael Mwangi Wasilwa Miriongi Mike Njeru
For an African president to be invited to visit the hallowed United States of America must be akin to the closest that one gets to embarking on an ideological pilgrimage , after all America has been touted as the paragon of democracy .
Usually , the opposite is the norm , where African presidents find themselves in the dreaded sanction list where they and their families are denied access to these great states which amplifies to the world that a president is an international pariah .
So , to be invited to this land of the brave and the free , according to their national anthem , is to be accepted as a poster boy of democracy and good governance from a continent that is famous for authoritarian rulers , brutal dictatorships and grand theft of national resources .
There was even talk of allowing this particular son of Africa , a proud Kenyan , the singular honor of addressing the joint sitting of the houses which roughly translates to having qualified and getting inducted to the democratic hall of fame .
It is useful to temporarily forget that this visit took place at a time when Kenya has one of its nationals vying for a top African Union post and that AU is opposed to the United States shenanigans in Palestine with its continuing support of Israel ’ s illegal occupation .
The International Criminal Court is working on issuing international arrest warrants for Israeli premier and his Hamas counterpart for crimes against humanity but the Kenyan head has already been there and Americans will anyway ignore ICJ as they are not members .
America is only a member of those international institutions that do its bidding like Bretton Woods institutions . The reason that the UN is such an ineffective political policing body is because the United States has continually undermined it by financial manipulations .
Kenya is currently the darling of the Bretton Wood ’ s institutions , a place the country extricated itself after the Moi era and the country ’ s dalliance with these institutions is a very painful slide back to government oppression .
There has been a tendency to forget that these institutions are financial institutions that specialize in macro lending and the primary justification of a bank is to make money , hence their propensity to recommending theoretical economic policies .
Kenya should be wary of copying anything American as this is the country that perfected the art of economic bigotry by espousing policies based on exploitation and oppression as the country was built on free slave labor .
It is ironical and hypocritical that the American immigrants moved to the new world to escape monarchical oppression and servitude only for them to create a world based on oppression and servitude and branded it democracy .
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