Kenyan teachers singing nyenyenye

There are a lot angry faces in the news these days. We have become a bit like South Africans. When a group of Kenyans are really mad and want to express their anger, they take to the streets and hold hands, sings off tune and start dancing.

The drawn out teachers’ strike drew my attention to a symbol that I thought was obsolete in our 21st Century thinking. You may have noticed that the teachers have taken to public flogging of effigies that represent the oppressive authorities. The discredited cane that was a national discipline enforcer for years gone by is seeing a revival.