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Stylistically speaking, Barack Obama could hardly be further from Jimmy Carter if he really had been born in Kenya.


Eric Alterman


#barack obama #been #born #carter #could

The year the Europeans seized Jomo Kenyatta (1952), Chepusepa and I were sharing our homestead with Arimo, a Teso, who was a headman of the local road crew. One day, Arimo's son found an ostrich's nest between Amudat and Katabok, while he was watching cattle. There were six eggs, and both of our cowherds took one. The brought the two eggs to our home and put them in the ashes near the fire. After two weeks, they hatched. I remember the baby ostriches walking about, eating millet and stones. Arimo took care of them, and they grew quite large. One night a leopard got the female, but the male continued to thrive, and Arimo harvested its feathers twice. Then, one day, when it was fully grown, our ostrich wandered into the town of Amudat. A European saw it and asked the people, "Where did this come from?" "Oh, it is the 'ox' of a man named Arimo, they told him. The European immediately summoned Arimo to Amudat. "Do you have license to keep an ostrich?" he demanded. "Of course not!" Arimo replied. "This ostrich doesn't belong to anyone else--it's mine. So why do I need a license?" But the European decreed,"From this day on, you must not keep this ostrich without a license. If you do, you will go to jail for stealing from the government!" That was only the beginning. The Europeans have been seizing our pet ostriches ever since. When other people heard about Arimo's trouble, they killed their ostriches so they could at least have the feathers. Another man was so angry, he killed his female ostrich and destroyed all her eggs.


Pat Robbins


#imperialism #kenya #home

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.


Joanna Lumley


#chance #got #great #kenya #leaping

When resources are degraded, we start competing for them, whether it is at the local level in Kenya, where we had tribal clashes over land and water, or at the global level, where we are fighting over water, oil, and minerals. So one way to promote peace is to promote sustainable management and equitable distribution of resources.


Wangari Maathai


#competing #degraded #distribution #equitable #fighting

I'd like to open an animal orphanage in Kenya. I do a lot of work for Born Free.


Rachel Hunter


#born #free #i #i do #kenya

When art as an expression starts to appear, without prompting, all over the suburbs and villages of this country, what we are saying is: we are confident enough to create our own living, our own entertainment, our own aesthetic. Such an aesthetic will not be donated to us from the corridors of a university; or from the Ministry of Culture, or by the French Cultural Centre. It will come from the individual creations of a thousand creative people


Binyavanga Wainaina


#kenya #kwani #art

Please consult your child’s Witch doctor before using this product. Diapers may cause severe allergies, internal bleeding, and irreversible sex change.


Kenya Wright


#fire-baptized #humor #kenya-wright #sex-change #witch-doctor

I very much like Kenya. It's hard to beat the Masai Mara and the idea of ballooning across it. I have a great time at Lewa. There's more rhinos than you'll find anywhere. A great part for the children is you can ride horses with the giraffes and the zebra.


Mark Burnett


#anywhere #beat #children #find #giraffes

Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.


Ralph Fiennes


#hosting #infrastructure #kenya #much

Colonial governors and senior civil servants are not easy people to argue with, and I was not popular because of my criticism of the colonial service in Kenya.


Louis Leakey


#because #civil #civil servants #colonial #criticism






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