BUWEMBO: Death in the Middle East: It’s WW2, Burma, Abyssinia all over again
Today’s youth going to the Middle East are unwilling but the biting unemployment and deception by human traffickers forces them to go, in spite of horror stories told by survivors. ILLUSTRATION | JOHN NYAGA | NMG
Although I expected some intensive brainstorming when I was invited to a coastal retreat with Kenyan editors last weekend, pondering models of probable revolutions in East African states a decade from today was the last thing I expected.
Of course there was no such thing on the agenda, as the senior scribes were preoccupied with the rather predictable topic of digital disruption in media.
