Are you feeling cynical, even bitter about our politics? Then you will enjoy reading this, because you will realize we are not alone. We can always find a parallel in a post-colonial society such as Kenya. This sharp commentary comes from a great Kenyan political blogger and cartoonist, Patrick Gathara. I find his blog extremely well written, and endlessly fascinating – partly because his posts often remind me so much of Jamaica, it’s uncanny. His blog is called Gathara’s World. There is no “reblog” on blogspot.com, so I have copied and pasted it – but do look up http://gathara.blogspot.com 

Of course, some details of this commentary relate strictly to Kenya…but doesn’t the underlying premise sound, well…familiar? [Note: Madaraka Day commemorates the day that Kenya attained internal self-rule in 1963, preceding full independence from the United Kingdom on 12 December 1963 – a few months after Jamaica].

“Crises and forgetting” –…