ODM-Kenya, NARC-Kenya

Ivo

Taking advantage of the generous invitation (no doubt soon to be regretted) of our sainted host, I will be posting with much less elegance, erudition and analytical acuity even more random musings on the Kenyan judiciary, bar, legal landscape and whatever else takes my fancy.

As it a season for political marriages under the banner of various 'alliances", I wonders if any of our leaders (all of whom, if asked would profess admiration for him), can actually test their present political mettle for jumping into bed with each other against Martin Luther King's vision of alliances:

"In addition to the development of genuinely independent and representative political leaders, we shall have to master the art of political alliances. A true alliance is based upon some self-interest of each component group and a common interest into which they merge. For an alliance to have permanence and loyal commitment from its various elements, each of the must have a goal from which it benefits and none must have an outlook in basic conflict with the others."

Why does not have to be a starry-eyed political idealist to get the feeling that its de ja vu all over again.