How did Kenya manage to convince the rest of the World our of all the 196 countries available to have two UN organizations headquarters in Kenya UNEP and UN Habitat.
How comes Kenya is among the select few countries in the world with UN headquarters in Nairobi. How did this happen during Moi time despite all economic and political turmoil
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I wonder to this day.
The first among paralympians. Thats the perception.
because they sold out to uncle sam way early when other countries were still on the fence about it
Because you are pushovers, you say yes to everything, you say no to nothing.
We were on the ‘right’ side of the cold war.
i believe Odingas were leaning to communist east , thats why they were barred from the realm and cant rule till this day
We were the wests poodle
[SIZE=6]Kenya’s Colourful but Uncelebrated Legacy At the UN Security Council[/SIZE]
15 NOVEMBER 2020
Opinion By John Kamau
When he died in 2015, Dr Joseph Odero-Jowi had, perhaps, been forgotten. Easily forgotten, too, is that he was the first Kenyan to have ever sat at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as its president.
He was also instrumental in negotiating the location of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) to Nairobi – perhaps an indicator of the importance of the position of Permanent Representative to the UN.
Kenya’s legacy at the UN Security Council is, perhaps, is an untold story.
This week, Parliament approved the appointment of Dr Martin Kimani as the country’s 16th Permanent Representative to the UN and to follow, at the UN Security Council, the footsteps of Dr Jowi, Charles Gatere Maina in 1974 and Mr Njuguna Mahugu (1997) - the only other three Kenyans who have been lucky to have their tenure in New York coincide with membership to the UNSC.
https://allafrica.com/stories/202011160174.html
I consider John Kamau as the best historian in the Kenyan media space at the moment. I thoroughly enjoy reading his articles
1972 Moi alikuwa rais kweli?
The Kenya of the 60s and the 70s was respected around the world because it was one of the few independent African countries that was doing well
Almost all other countries were falling into civil war or experimenting with mass deportation of Indians or stuff like Ujamaa
But Kenya has never recovered from the oil shock of 1973
And with the entry of Moi, it became just another African banana republic
Huyu mse articles zake are possibly the sole reason ya gazeti ya Sunday… Na that Ngotho fella if they ain’t one n the same