New year is one of the sweetest moments in Kenya, the climax of Christmas festivities that gather family from distant ends of the country for two weeks of laughter, sunshine, hugs, food and drinks. But in 2007, the down of a new year echoed with drums of war. A political contest for the country’s presidency went awfully wrong and in a span of hours, long buried tribal animosities seared to the surface, turning husband against wife and neighbor against neighbor. Machetes clunked against innocent skulls, women were raped, children bludgeoned and the old and infirm violated and murdered in an orgy of violence that lasted weeks and shocked the world. This is a journalist’s account of the blood and tears that destroyed families and stained a nation.
Omwa Ombara is a resolute pen slinger and a versatile wordsmith who has widely published across the world. She writes across different genres; reportage, feature, poetry, memoir and short fiction. Her writing send the writer into mental jive ans usually her poetic reflections jabs through heart caves of the oppressor. She has mastered the art of revolutionary and protest poetry with tact, steed and dexterity. Her poetry cracks truth to double chinned economic mowers and unrepentant fat cats who sleep in parliament while squandering the masses’ hard-earned cash, which they loot.
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