Nairobi There are hardly better days that I have had as an organizer than the ones I have spent looking at the “turf” in a new city to decide, as best one can with four decades of experience, where we should start organizing new chapters. In the past I had fallen in love with the potential …
Month: February 2009
Violence or Peace in Nairobi Slums
February 11, 2009 Nairboi In every conversation I have in Nairobi I ask the question forefront on many minds — has the national power sharing in government worked and is there now peace in the communities or could tribal antagonisms that killed more than 1000 in post-election violence little over a year ago recur. These are …
New Kenyan Labor Law
February 10, 2009 Nairobi Once I am stuck for what seems like forever in a traffic jam waiting with hundreds of other cars for a Kenyan policeman to wave us into a turnabout (traffic circle), I know I’m back in Nairobi. It was a pleasant surprise to be picked up by a young driver for the …