Let's Sing Our Own Song

The West has its own skeletons in their closets and due to the near-perfect propagation of information today, nearly every village on earth knows the unfair power-play, ills, corruption, intrigue and political manipulations/machinations that is Western democracies and the decadence eating away at the Western way of life.

Recent(or historical) events like the civil rights movement in the US, the subsequent assassination of MLK, then later on-JFK, the stealing of (or rigging of) the 2000 elections for GWB, the acrimonious vitriol after the election of BHO in 2008 and 2012, the disfunction of the US style of governance as currently established are all well in the public domain.

The escapades of the likes of Berlusconi in Italy, DSK (formally of the IMF) in France or is it NYC and others have left the West feeling vulnerable. The mainstream press in the West has also shown its true colours as far as objectivity or manipulation of views is concerned. A while back, the Murdoch news house in the UK opened up a can of warms they would have rather remained un-opened. Recently in Kenya, CNN uncovered or covered a militia comprising of one fighter displaying how ready Kenyans were to unleash violence onto one another after the recent elections. This is after the US president advised western journalists about the dangers of visiting such places like Syria or Kenya!

The West has lost the moral high ground to patronize developing nations. As Bob Marley once sang, '…We refuse to be what you wanted us to be…you can't educate 'us' for no equal opportunity….'

That is the reason they are fidgety about the developments in Kenya and other developing countries. They would like to control more the happenings there but they are aware the people know this and are alert. They are stumbling on themselves trying to position for individual and national points of advantage-yet retaining the noninterference attitude expected of them. They know what resources are in the offing to be exploited, and they know too that being seen as too eager to control the events may draw animosity from the populations. They cannot afford to antagonize the local regimes, yet they need to exert their influence in the outcomes of the political maneuvers going on.