05.20.13 Rocky Dawuni “A Groove for a Peaceful Democracy in Africa” on Huffington Post!
In May 2011, I travelled to Nairobi for a concert at the invitation of March Forth Kenya Kids, a Kenya-based NGO. This was a few years after the post-election violence of 2007, which made headlines around the world. One day on my way to rehearsals, I got trapped in a pandemonium in the middle of the city where a sea of people and cars were fleeing from a disturbance that turned out to be a protest march by the students of the University of Nairobi. This incident reminded me of the scars the last elections had left in its wake -- a tense state of fear, ethnic distrust and a fragile security environment. This also brought to mind the experiences in other African countries like Cote D'Ivoire, Liberia and Sierra Leone where political violence and experiments in democracy had resulted in all out war. Read More
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