Palaver

Palaver

Today, we get to mention the global leaders that made your Palaver in 2012 and start with a lady with a triple-barrel name, Hillary Rodham Clinton. For the clueless, she is a former First Lady of the US, was almost a Kenyan in-law (if only her Chelsea had loved cows more than ‘mbesha’ and is touted as a possible 45th US prezzo after yet another alleged Kenyan, Barack ‘K’ogelo’ Obama. The came freedom icon Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, the man whose children do not bear Christian names (Makgatho, Makaziwe, Zenani, Zindziswa, and Madiba Thembekile) and Woman of Steel, Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma.

 

We should not forget the late Muammar Gaddafi, the two-man anti-American army of Presidents Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, then very close were Uganda president Yoweri Museveni, and Palaver’s brother from another mother Paul Kagame who has only since 1994, dragged Rwanda from the Stone Age Siberia to a veritable digital giant. Kindly, let’s not argue with success when it is staring us in the face. If in doubt, ask Dr Bitange Ndemo and Bob Collymore.

    

Then there are some who draw attention to themselves, sometimes for all the wrong reasons. Sarah Palin, for instance, who claimed she could see Russia from her porch in Alaska and even tried to fox her way into hitching a ride on jumbo jet Airforce 2. It’s okay Sarah, ambition never killed anyone, but geography is vital if you want to know where to point Iraq-bound missiles. And so is eating too much book” like ‘Uncle Bob’, the only African prezzo Palaver knows that goes on leave. What about the unfailing wisdom of rattling your neighbour’s cage when things start getting really boring? Something like Argentina president Cristina Kirchner who is demanding that Britain return a couple of islands another tough-as-nails leader called Thatcher kwachu-ad from one of Cristina’s predecessors. Wish you luck ma’am.

  

And finally...

With the new law on counterfeits now targeting even SIM cards, how are we to know how a fake police officer looks like? Not even President Kibaki noticed the man who shadowed and even sat next to him in parliament. We are finished if there are more Joshua Waiganjos out there!

 

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