Nairobi Star (Nairobi)
9 October 2008
Florida is an important election state; and Kenyans will understand why. It is the state that caused a 36 day delay before the announcement of presidential election results in 2000, as challenges were mounted against the election results. (Oh I wish my friend Sam Kivuitu had remembered this and delayed his announcement in December last year until he was sure, and had convinced us that he was ...
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A really well written article. I have already voted, and I did not vote for Mr. Obama, though he does have my respect for being able to assemble so many people around the most liberal voting record in the U.S. Congress. (Nothing to do with race, by the by – if Dr. C. Rice would run, I would trip over myself to man the phones.) I would like to complement the writer, Maina Kiai, for a very well written and insightful article. I have been involved in a number of political campaigns here in the U.S., and she captures it beautifully.