Kabuga trial for genocide carries painful lessons

Alleged Rwandan genocide financier Felicien Kabuga at the ICC on November 11, 2020. [Courtesy: UN IRMCT]

Growing up in the village, the highlight of every First Term holiday in the 90s was the Safari Rally. It was usually between March and April during the long rains.

In Machakos, the rains pounded the grasslands and flowers blossomed, for once. With other boys, we went about kicking wild mushrooms which sprang everywhere. Truly, in Shakespeare's "As you like it" terms, "springtime was the only pretty ring time."