Who’d have thought the children would be given bullets, not bread?
A police member fires tear gas at a demonstration over police killings of people protesting against Kenya's proposed finance bill 2024/2025, in Nairobi, Kenya on June 27, 2024. PHOTO | REUTERS
The presidential inauguration of William Ruto in September of 2022 took place on a Tuesday, and there was some serious church music being blasted in Kasarani Stadium as the crowd waited for officials to arrive and for the ceremony to start.
As I bopped along, because East African praise and worship has some sick beats, I thought to myself: Is this, like, kosher? Because if we did that here, not only would I finally have cause to write a whopping series about the separation of Church and State in modern African performances of statecraft, but it would also be Major Domestic Drama.
