OPINION:Trump’s America could look a lot like Kenya

SOURCE: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2016/11/17/trumps-america-could-look-a-lot-like-kenya/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.f35be88d4719

Trevor Noah, the South African comedian and host of “The Daily Show,” a popular late-night news satire and talk show in the United States, once described Donald Trump as America’s first African president. In fact, Americans could do worse than look to the continent in general, and Kenya in particular, for a preview of what life under a Trump administration would be like.

President-elect Trump and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta have much in common. Both are fabulously wealthy, the children of privilege with questionable success in business, and both have been accused of fanning ethnic and racial hatred. Both have risen to head their respective countries in the most unlikely of circumstances and in the face of global opprobrium. Many across the world eschewed Trump’s xenophobia and reckless approach to international affairs; Kenyatta faced similar opposition to his candidacy three years ago. This was a consequence of his – -and his running mate’s — indictment at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in relation to Kenya’s 2008 post-election violence, in which more than 1,000 people died.

Trevor Noah, the South African comedian and host of “The Daily Show,” a popular late-night news satire and talk show in the United States, once described Donald Trump as America’s first African president. In fact, Americans could do worse than look to the continent in general, and Kenya in particular, for a preview of what life under a Trump administration would be like.

President-elect Trump and Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta have much in common. Both are fabulously wealthy, the children of privilege with questionable success in business, and both have been accused of fanning ethnic and racial hatred. Both have risen to head their respective countries in the most unlikely of circumstances and in the face of global opprobrium. Many across the world eschewed Trump’s xenophobia and reckless approach to international affairs; Kenyatta faced similar opposition to his candidacy three years ago. This was a consequence of his – -and his running mate’s — indictment at the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity in relation to Kenya’s 2008 post-election violence, in which more than 1,000 people died.

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If Raila Odinga became president that would apply to him too…

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Written by gathara

Never ever have I ever heard our President Kenyatta fanning ethnic hatred in public like the way Trump did

NO BABA NO PEACE

Now they’re blaming the PEV solely on UK?

Really? Remember those Hague rallies that were used to excite people with a lot of misinformation just before he became president?

I remember they were preacing peace not hatred

Kuna some remarks he made in Kiuk, they were not peaceful in any way.

Ata kama mimi sipendi kuongea about tribe. Nakumbuka mungiki wakiua wakikuyu wengi 2003 after uhuru lost. Wakikuyu walisahau mbio san 2013 ilipofika.

Wewe ndio mmoja wa wale wakikuyu waliuwawa ama?

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Kwani sasa Uhuru hatawahi kuwa criticised kwa hii kijiji. Ata mzazi wako hauwezi mtetea hivi.

Mimi ukiangalia thread zangu mimi ni objective critic wa Jubilee. Hakuna kutetea nimefanya ni ukweli na tafuta. Leo ndio mara ya kwanza nimesikia hii story yako. Unless ulikuwa hapo siwezi amini rumors.

First of all kama hukumbuki any of this basi you must be younger than the baby of this village @Deorro. In 2002 Moi used the Mungiki sect to undermine the Kikuyu voting bloc which he feared would unite under Mwai KIbaki. I remember that relatives were complaining that if you went home from Nairobi you would meet with thugs who would ask for money from matatu drivers. The police had become lax after August and crackdowns on the sect had stopped. After the elections there were a lot of killings in Central because the man the sect had backed lost. Uhuru ‘denounced’ the killings just as he had done in 2008 after PEV. But even at that age I knew that he wasn’t to be trusted. There were a lot of scandals that were uncovered in 2003 like land rovers which were owned by the government being lent to mungiki. Many KANU political aspirants were also linked to the sect.
Kuna links lakini ni za google books kama utazisoma well and good:

Struggle for democracy : https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=IIvKKlhWY80C&pg=PA84&lpg=PA84&dq=Mungiki+KANU&source=bl&ots=43_xqJPydF&sig=VCzoNLHi75PTOO7IIP6ZezQty-M&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Mungiki KANU&f=false

President Uhuru Kenyatta Rise to Glory Coincided With Rise of Mungiki; New York Times Rattles Statehouse - Kenya Insights

Who are the Mungiki? — THE WASTE BOOKS

Another google books link:
https://books.google.co.ke/books?id=AolXsK16qtYC&pg=PA676&lpg=PA676&dq=mungiki+KANU&source=bl&ots=YnhFpqznN4&sig=UOvzwPgOPKrIuPLE0uAGvQXa0B0&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=mungiki KANU&f=false

Kama unataka a personal encounter basi hiyo sina but mtu akikuambia kulikuwa na PEV utakataa kwa sababu hakuwa hapo na alionea kwa TV ? Ama holocaust utaamini tu ukipewa first hand account, kwa hivyo kwako historians wote kwako ni waongo?

Yeah like Hague ti kwa nyokwa? Mkubwa don’t try too hard, you are one of the few sober minded talker. I am one of the guys who holds in high esteem for your urbane and learned point of view on topics.

We all know the side Mungiki supported in 2007 and 2013. Let’s not rewrite history.

2002 was a different story read my links in the post above. Ukisikia politics has temporary friends jua sio maneno tupu.

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Mungiki waliuwa wakikuyu wapi?

I will look at the books. Enyewe nimeona kile unasema, you said 2003 and not 2007. Saa zingine unajua mtu huropokwa.

Kenyan voter ni kondoo sana.

I just call it as I see it.

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