Endemic corruption, increasing social inequality, and lackadaisical governance are the principal causes of pitiable implementation of both international and national environmental policies. Wealthy nations fool around with the climate change deal. There is either no or little improvement on the new targets for the developed nations that are party to the Kyoto Protocol to cut their emissions. The just ended UN climate change negotiation meeting in Bangkok fundamentally failed to deliver any substantive development on targets, posing serious questions about the political dedication of the industrialized nations on climate change. Since the United States is the major carbon emission producer in the world, President Barrack Obama could have done the world a great honor by rejecting the untimely Nobel peace prize by singing the Kyoto Protocol.

Poor nations are the most affected by effects of climate change, something that as prompted African nation to gang up for the Copenhagen meeting. More than fifty Members of Parliament from African countries are meeting for three days at the UNEP Headquarters’ in Gigiri Nairobi with an aim of coming up with a common stand in readiness for Copenhagen after shameful failure in Bangkok. Anyway the Copenhagen meeting could just be one of the many talks shows aimed at audacious nuclear power show of while millions of lives are destroyed daily as a result of environmental pollution form the carbon emission.

Poor environmental management strategies have been cited as the main causes of deforestation. Most developing nations are not governance compliant, good governance is development centered values quality life of its citizens, and respects integrity for prosperity. The legislature, the executive, and the judiciary serving under the banner of ethnicity have done this country (Kenya) a grand environmental defilement. Nearly two years after efforts were renewed to save the water towers of Mau Forest complex, politics has taken the centre stage and little action seems to be taking place. The gluttonous human settlement in the Mau Forest fueled by the politicians from the Kalenjin Community in Rift Valley in the name of saving our people is causing the rivers leaving Mau forests which replenish many lakes including those essential to the tourism industries to dry up.

The gratuitous phenomenon of destruction of the water towers in Kenya is already unleashing ramifications that are beyond redemption. The world greatest spectacle and tourist attraction, the migration of the wildebeest across the Mara River in the Masaai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya is slowly loosing its spectacular magnetism; it is a slap of the unforgiving Mother Nature. Scenes like these will die out if water towers that feed such rivers are not conserved. Some major Rift Valley lakes (Nakuru and Elimentataita) which are also homes to flamingos are at the brink of extinction; among other consequences of climate change in Kenya has been the declining rainfall which in turn has lead to lower resources for hydropower and scarcity of water for agriculture and domestic consumption. As result of persistent drought livestock farmer’s from the pastoralist communities are burying carcasses of dead livestock.

The third world nations should take advantage of the situation by putting there best brains at work. Currently in eastern Africa the drought is causing havoc, no water for the livestock, the water level in the main hydropower dams is down, domestic water supply dams are drying up, soon the El-Niño rains will start and many will be caught unaware. Lives will be lost property worth billions destroyed. Along side the national disaster policy the poor nations should develop national water harvesting strategic policy. The policy should effectively address approaches of reducing effects of drought by storing water during rainy season for use during dry spells. The water banks can play critical role during dry season by offering livelihood to the poor and the marginalized livestock farmers who occupy vast communal grazing fields.

The water banks will successful replace traditional agricultural ideology of depending on the rainfall as the only source of water yet global rainfall patterns are changing. Alternative farming systems and technologies like organic farming should be encouraged among communities. Recently in Kenya the government was buying emaciated livestock from the pastoralist community at a fare price, what a bright idea, but the government should think of more sustainable ideas like livestock insurance policy for the arid and semi arid parts of the republic. The government could also set up state-run slaughter houses at the regional level instead of a meat processing factory in its capital city Nairobi; this will create employment at the community level.

Global warming and man’s social economic activities have led to the degradation of earth’s single most and very significant natural resource, the forests. With increased violation of principles of conserving these regions globally, poverty and unemployment, reduced water levels in reservoirs and non sustainable agricultural practices have rendered many within third world countries to suffer food shortages. With well planed strategies the third world countries will effectively address the issue of food security. With modern technology the sun may not be a problem as such, the question is how do we tame and convert solar energy to domestic and industrial use. Wind energy is also one of the most assumed sources of energy in Africa yet it is a common phenomenon in semi and arid areas of sub-Saharan African.

It is time for African states to utilize their technological think tanks to eradicate corruption, dictatorship tyranny and buffoon style selfish and self styled ideologies and principles of leadership. It is also important for developed economies to stop maximizing on the abject poverty in the third world by embracing realistic holistic, inclusive and comprehensive development agendas that are aimed at reducing human suffering. By reducing emission and by supporting developing nations environmental conservation initiatives and by listening to the human suffering and taking preventive action the world will reduce environmental disasters hence reduction of rescue missions.

If we are enjoying the fruits of our theatre advocates (May their souls rest in peace) done 10-20 years ago why do we have to remain the same today lets move up.
As I sit down in this great hall (Shrine of tears) in Nakuru, A gentle man known to me well hands me some documents of the proceedings. As I scan through “artist” shouts at each other in the pretext of haki yetu. A gentle man stands up and shouts mugala muuwe haki umpe. I lift my head slowly and ask myself why? Kanini umuuwe mgala?

This scene reminds me in 1996 when the great late Opiyo Mumma and Lenny Ogolla moved the theatre world by their great English tongue twisters only years later we realize they were saying artist need to work together for the better of our societies.
This gentleman who handed me the papers emerges as the new chairman of the “artist” club of Nakuru. So I had the first privilege of being served by the chair.
My mentor, friend and very good friend Taban Lo Loiyong. Defined an artist as a person who always remembers but he didn’t say what and I agree, and it’s this definition that we want to use n re-awakening this great club.
To my own analysis, so be it out of 84 people sited in this great shrine of tears only 23 are artist out of them only 4 men with the womb (women) why do I say this
 Most of the youth in the hall they don’t understand what art entails. And they have always confused arts and theatre to be:-
-Magnet theatre session
-Annually NOPE festival
-Donor driven groups
-How long have I been hanging around this building called theatre?
 ¾ of people in this shrine of tears came to out shine each other in voice, voting and being known by whom?
Thinking through what a club not “club” entails I have to admit this executive has along way to go. My words of wisdom to this executive is
“The man (of course even women) who loves mother earth who nourishes mother earth, who tends mother earth and all her products, gets rewarded.”

Odu knows this because he has walked this journey for sometime, all the way from a small village in western part of this country to the city in the great rift he must know this very well.
“Our task, the task of the living is to work today in order to eat tomorrow”
 We need to start critically changing this club’s constitution to allow you, me and them to develop. One year in office entails hoop skip and jump kind of leadership of which the result end is always we are trying ……………………….
 The membership criteria should be careful looked into. Why is one calling him or herself an artist?
- what’s art to this person
- He/she is in it because of donors, friends, or deep down he has the passion and anger to develop our culture and maintain it without being compromised.
In away the best story is the story you would like to hear again and again

The people we incorporate on board what are they bringing on board, don’t tell me ideas we have more than enough as long as I remember. We need people now to invest in this club, we need aboard that had a weight to learn on financially, because we have skills and information what we lack is just the reason and we are complete

Odu and the board will challenge me that he’s going to do resource mobilization, until then when he will answer this question what are we giving in return to the people we are targeting to give us resources in return is when I will buy his great idea of resource mobilization.
A couple of weeks ago I was in Northern Sudan to see my old girlfriend Ms. Lily Akol akol and I share this with you, I remember what she asked me in 1997 at 5.00pm as we were taking beer at the sunset bar in the whispers corner . How can you John expect membership of this National Theatre and all you do is have great jobs in the NGO in the context of an artist? This I ask you Odu again?
Why Lily Akol reflection appeal, so much to me is that she is truly touching on repressed/trapped us in NGOs setting in which we seemingly have no escape. Odu can this affect your dream of this great theatre club.
Let’s not live disconnected lives in theatre we need to:-

 Take up all the theatrical activities i.e. be the best planner of the NOPE funded festival and offer true T.A., redesign the festival guideline for theatre practitioners out of school then resources will follow us.
 Mobilize theatre loves not “artist” in the whole of rift valley that’s what you guys call development by involving all.
 Appreciate that the hand fails to throw straight as the eyes see

Guys have you ever asked your self why the government refuses to give youth permits for demonstrations but gives an okay for processions of which to me they are demonstrations in organized manner.
It’s because we have failed to give back responsibility during the demo’s ama ni uwongo

Think today think

Otoyo Otoyo was one of the most respected personalities in the village, tall man well built with a weathering away body as a result of consuming hot chang’aa, he was a master piece and with good education he was the only person who could translate local language to English or Swahili and that is only when under influence of two glasses of chanag’aa. One thing about Otoyo Otoyo is that he was much persevered especially after drinking “thing” – the local brew.

Almost every young person in the village wanted to be like Otoyo Otoyo, the only part they did not like was the drinking in him, drinking too much “chang’aa” the local brew. After drinking, Otoyo Otoyo never forgot to buy some roasted meat and accompaniments to reduce the level of intoxication. Passing through the market narrow road was a must because it was the only way to his home.

Passing through the market meant a lot of things to him, women raining jokes to him, children flashing mockery to him and men laughing endlessly at him, what a parade of honor.

One day, as usual from his drinking expedition he passed by the hotel and as a routine he bought some meat and ugali. It was a little late in the evening and the village road very busy, the jokers and the mockers never realized that Otoyo Otoyo was passing. After some few meters Otoyo Otoyo went by the road side to respond gently to the call of nature, he placed the meat and ugali down just next to himself, just to make sure that the food was safe. While helping himself a bitch patrolling the garbage decided to think outside the box to find out what was in the paper bag. And the bitch realized that it was food and so it started helping itself to it.

On the realization that some creature was helping itself out with his food Otoyo Otoyo never bothered to zip up or pull the trouser up but went straight to save the delicious meal. So he attacked the bitch from behind holding its tail, the bitch still held tight the meat. And so he went straight for the rear legs of the bitch and lifted the bitch just like a scene from the blue movies, remember the trouser is down and the bitch is holding tight on the meat not letting the meal go. One of the market women realized the struggle and started shouting, Otoyo Otoyo is……….Otoyo Otoyo bought the meat for the dog to satisfy his thirst, since it was abomination Otoyo Otoyo was stoned to death by the villagers. And the man died….just like that……

A man had just bought a casket for his dead father; the man hired a pick up to transport the casket to the mortuary to collect the body of his dead father for burial.

On the way, a man by the road side stopped the vehicle for a lift, the driver accepted to help the man, but since the front seat was already occupied, the man had to join the casket behind the pick up. Since the man was in hurry he didn’t mind the casket, and so he joined the casket.

After some time it started raining heavily, the man decided that the best way to avoid being rained on is to take shelter in the casket and so he did take shelter in the casket and locked himself in the casket. It was worm and cool in the casket and so the man fallen a sleep, deep sleep.

Along the way another man stopped the vehicle for a lift and the generous driver accepted to carry the man, and because the front seat was occupied the driver asked the man if he does not mind the casket he could seat at the rear where the it was, and so the man accepted, very fast to avoid waste of time and to avoid the rain, the man joined the casket behind the pick up.

After some distance a lorry approached from behind trying to overtake the pick up but it did not manage to overtake the pick up. Therefore the lorry was moving just behind the pick-up some few meters away from the pick-up tail.

The rains continued pounding heavily. The man in the casket was in deep sleep and because of the warmth in the casket the man started dreaming, kicking and yelling aloud, when the gentleman in the casket came out the casket, it was like scene from hell. It was like the return of the leaving dead. The pick up moving in a very high speed and to avoid the man from the casket the other man (second passenger) jumped out of the pick up only to be crashed by the lorry.

He was crashed beyond recognition brains scattered on the road, body parts demarcated into junks of meat. He was dead…..

Like a think heavy pregnant cloud the smoke engulfed the shells, in the shells is a life, a life of a people, like firewood socked in petroleum gas fuel a life is reduced to ashes, like black sculptures bodies are scattered everywhere, oh it is a real public gallery with human bodies scattered allover the scene. The scene is like “scene from hell” at fast I thought I was watching a holy-hood horror movie “the return of the living dead” like the holy-hood stunt masters fighting a loosing battle in a hell of fire to make money, the people battling the hell of fire to save a life, their lives. For the first time in my life a saw a “walking fire-wood”

Like a ghost fire following the trails of its prey socked in its scent the horrific fire destroyed every living soul, innocent children playing football, women and men both young and old went on flames. Shoppers running for their precious commodity “life “are branded thieves, looters and shoplifters, locked in the oven of the shell, they run to the press and say there is no body in the burning shell every body was evacuated, let us save bread and the melting ice cream, yet when the fire dies, they collect bodies from the shells.

Ok the dead can not learn a lesson, the living will never learn a lesson, we still rash to the horrific scenes to certisfy our thirst. While a people sleep on empty stomachs, they drain the maize granaries in their pockets, and they fuel their pockets. They eat like termites straggling to bring a hart down, then vomits without shame and greedily returns to the vomit, yet we expect the a people to be saints.

Most of the eastern African endangered species are facing extinction from the face of the earth because of their valuable body parts. The former president of the republic of Kenya Daniel Moi set ablaze Elephants and Rhino task worth millions of shillings recovered from the poachers. Just like the blood diamonds, the wild animal’s body parts are being sold through the black market to reach people yet the communities taking care of the game remain poor.

Albinos are special and unique human beings with unique skin pigmentation, but what is so special about the albinos? According to the traditional African black magic albinos are more than what we think they are. Currently albinos in eastern Africa are a moving target for human poachers. In Tanzania before the president issued a warning on the albino poachers, a man was arrested by the police trying to sale her albino wife. Albinos have been reported missing without trace in Kenya and Tanzania. There is a big and ready market for albinos in eastern Africa especially Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi, “to be or not to be is not the question” why albinos? That is the question.

It is believed that certain body parts of the albinos can bring richness, if you want to become reach in eastern Africa you look for a witch doctor with that particular body part of the albinos. If you want to become great fisher man you look for a witch doctor with albino hair tie the hair on the fishing net you will get all the fish in from the waters, and some body parts can be used to make love potion. Why do you need fellow human being body parts to make love? The world is crazy.

Fellow eastern Africans let as stop this madness, myths and believes are not a solution to our problems but a problem to our solutions. To me the killing of my albino brothers and sisters is the greatest human slaughter of the 21fast centaury. Albinos are human beings just like any person, they deserve protection and it is there right to enjoy all the human rights. Eastern Africa take care of your sons and daughters, your brothers and sisters, your mothers and fathers they are humans not animals.

The media in Kenya is heavily bleeding from the injuries caused by the political elite; the media in Kenya is fighting very hard to ensure that the content published by the media is not faltered by the government. If president Kibaki signs the communication bill he will lay an epitaph to the grave of freedom of press hence the onset of lack of information, communication, and education on the social issues affecting the common person. The only way the common person can express her political, social, and ideological feelings is through the media. Remember it is the mainstream and the citizen media which contribute to the political, social, and technological change in Kenya by exposing the historical and the current injustices on the people.

The communication bill will not only affect the local mainstream media, it will also affect other internet social forums which have been the only avenue for creatively expressing our political, social, and health issue without boarders. One area that will suffer from the bill is the fight against HIV/AIDS, other health related community issues and the social evils in the government like corruption and misappropriation of the public funds. If the Kenyan government is planning to control the content being published by the mainstream media and citizen media then that will mark the beginning of a serious set back in the fight against HIV/AIDS , other health related issues and the social injustices like corruption in the government.

If our policies will filter content then how do we encourage positive behavior through sharing of Information, Communication, and Educative materials across boarders? How do we enable sharing of ideas and methodologies that have worked in other regions? By marking good use of the ICT technologies like the internet we can share creative methodologies in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Mr. President signing that bill is a serious stigma to the fight against AIDS in Kenya and other social issues affecting the common person.

If President Kibaki signs the bill he will legalize corruption since no media will be allowed to cover any political misdemeanors among the Kenyan politicians. How do you hell a wound by causing an injury to healing wound. If that is how Walter Nyambane, Caroline Mutuku, Mwalimu Mati, Fredrick Odhiambo and other protesters were handled by the presidential security details then Kenya is still behind THERE IS NO FREEDOM FOR EXPRESSION IN KENYA. God bless Kenya.

“Yes we can” and “Yes we did it”. On Thursday, November 6, 2008 was a public holiday in Kenya after the breaking news that the grandson of the land had just won the biggest position in the world The seat of the United State of America presidency, yet on 27 December 2007 it was a public mayhem in Kenya after the disputed presidential results. To me the hero of the just ended US presidential elections is John McCain who gave a strong encouraging speech after accepting defeat in the just concluded elections. African leaders should learn from McCain because they are the root cause of historical injustices in Africa before congratulating Obama.

Zimbabwe and Kenya should be ashamed to congratulate President Elect – Barack Obama after they led their citizens into ethnic cleansing after disputed presidential elections. Kenya and Zimbabwe should be chanting the slogan “Yes we can not” instead of “Yes we can” and “Yes we did it”

Kenyan politicians have successful replaced democracy with tribalism which has turned Kenya into a tribal state instead of a democratic state. Most Kenyans still live in fear because of lack of trust from the neighbors who are their own brothers and sisters. Some leaders in 2007 during presidential campaigns in Kenya went around telling their constituents that uncircumcised persons can not lead the country. I wonder if a persons leads by their foreskin or wisdom. I think Kenya should borrow from Americans who have done the honorable thing in the world history by electing the first black president, yes they did it and a grand son of Kenya.

There is a lot of expectation from the President Elect Barack Obama from Kenyan leaders, shame to the Kenyan leaders. When he visited Kenya before becoming the President of the world greatest economy he gave a speech in one of the local university. In his speech Barack told Kenyan leaders on their face that corrupt leadership was the cause of poor economy of the Kenyan. The leaders didn’t take it lightly including the Kenyan ambassador to the US. Now they are happy yet we still have internally displaced persons in camps around the country, what a shame.

Three hours a go the lake is very clear only visible scattered carpets of hypo grass travelling slowly towards nowhere though headed somewhere-Homa Bay, three hours later the lake is a carpet of huge dreaded hypo grass, it looks beautiful though the beginning of a disaster, will they make it back home? I asked myself, women with small children, young men, men and women old and young are juts about to leave Homa Bay back home.

The only means of travel is a local engine boat a vessel that travels in the waters of the great fresh water lake-Lake Victoria, the wonder is that the vessel must first travel in a few meters of the hypo grass on the waters of the lake for hours before finding the waters of the lake. It took the three vessels three hours to travel two hundred meters in the hypo grass in the waters of the great Lake. A journey of a few miles begun with more miles, though finally after three hours of straggle the vessels left the hypo grass, the question is what can be done to the dreaded hypo grass that is slowly eating up the lake. Some days the lake is turned into a grazing filed but no livestock to feed on the hypo grass or livestock farmers harvesting the grass.

Apart from the harmful human activities around the lake the hypo grass is one of the symptoms of the dying ecology. Save Lake Victoria.

I don’t understand the role of industrialization in a country like Kenya because the way it looks to me industrialization is the source of poverty in Kenya. Most of the industries are the sources of suffering in the community and especially to the farmers and the people working in the industries. Bungoma District is one of the major sugar producers in the country “yet the government still imports sugar”, but the life of the farmer is reduced to a nightmare because of the time the local sugar company takes to harvest the cane is more than the required life of the sugarcane “yet the government still imports sugar” , to harvest the sugarcane the farmer needs permission from the sugar industry “yet the government still imports sugar”, some sugar plantations have overstayed and are loosing value yet the farmers cannot cut the cane and sell it to other alternative market because of the contract between the farmer and the local sugar industry that does not allow the farmer to harvest the cane “yet the government still imports sugar” . As a result of that the farmer is poor but with wealth in the shamba, OK even after harvesting the cane the money spent to take care of the sugar plantation is five times the money earned “yet the government still imports sugar”. The minster of agriculture William Ruto, The President, and the Prime Minister what are you up to?