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Political revolutions can sneak up on a country. Remember this iconic slogan of the Black Power Movement in the 1960s – the revolution will not be televised. Gil Scott-Heron, the African-American soul and jazz poet-musician, later immortalised the phrase in a poem and song of the same title. But as it turns out, sometimes the revolution is – in fact – televised.
Take the Arab Spring. Or the 1989 Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia. I saw with my own eyes – on television – as the mighty Soviet Union collapsed into a heap of ashes. Which begs the question – was the “televised” March 9 “handshake” between NASA’s Raila Odinga and Jubilee’s Uhuru Kenyatta the ignition of a Kenyan revolution? Can a revolution be bloodless and peaceful?
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