May 20 2008
A diversion from lions
The media loves acronyms. A while back we had WMDs which kind of had the same evocative nastiness as “Ebola”. Which is not an acronym, but nevertheless brings to mind imminent chaos, death and collapse of society, a bit like “WMD”, or as I heard it said quite a lot at the time, “dubbya-emdees”.
I present to you today, “IDP”. It stands for “internally displaced people”, and kenya has quite a few. But more importantly I would like to draw your attention to a few kenyans that are asking questions. The right kinds of questions, at the right time…
My chain-smoking, flip-flops-and-socks-wearing, second-floor-dwelling friend Dipesh is currently editor of Wajibu. An excellent magazine with a conscience and a message. Hard to get hold of, but we forgive him for that (good writers are horrendous adminstrators, right?). There is some discussion of it (a review of sorts) here.
Technorati : Wajibu, internally displaced people, kenya, politics
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Interesting reading. Thanks for posting the link.