Idle Musings…….

First of all…..

A belated happy 2007 to all! I have been out of commission for a while and I have no-one to blame but myself. I don’t have any one topic to discuss, so I will let my mind do some walking.

I have been hearing very many conflicting accounts about Kenya’s economic growth, so I will ask one simple question. Is Kenya’s middle class increasing or decreasing? One good indicator of the standard of living in a state is the size of the middle class, well according to me anyway. Anyone got some stats or anecedotes to share on this issue?

There was this hullabaloo in the papers the other day about how 60 something % of Kenyan women will never get married. Those statistics are a whole lot of bull. But veracity aside, why the surprise? This is one by product of capitalism and Westernisation, tradition being shunted to the side. In fact I think feminists in Kenya should be jumping up and down because as it goes now, more women in Kenya have the freedom of choice on who to marry and when. Besides who says people have to get married anyway? The old traditional system that gave certain priviledges to married people is slowly being dismantled. Let people revel in their singleness I say!

I have also been following the Bishop Wanjiru saga and I have one word for that lady…publicist. This was one mountain made from a molehill to be frank. All was needed was some tact and this issue would have never been. But I must say it has opened my eyes to the dealings of our prosperity preachers who profit on people’s poverty. I was disappointed to hear the Bishop pour scorn on her estranged husbands’ poverty. Most Kenyans live on a dollar a day and the Bishop’s fortune is made from people who sacrifice the little that they make to “give till it hurts” as the preachers say. To make things worse the congregation cheered as she spewed this invective, when quite a few of them are at the same level as Kamangu. This just shows how much pride has gone to this Lady’s head. I know people who go to her church and how they equate God’s blessing with financial breakthrough and nothing else, for these people if you are poor there is something wrong with your faith; irregardless of the fact that the Bible itself says that the poor will always be amongst us and how we should depend on God for our blessings and not man. But anyway at the end of the day it is God who will judge the Bishop and her ilk.

Moving on, I am not a fan of wanton violence and looting but I believe that the 5 star caterers at WSF got what they had coming to them or rather the bigwigs who sent them there. How do you rob people via capitalism at a Socialist conference?! That is just the epitome of what is going on in Kenya today. The rich rob the poor everyday so as to preserve their position in society and frankly it disgusts me!

It’s good to be back! Have a nice day!