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Why Kenya must heed Congo lesson

By Dominic Odipo

"We have known sarcasm and insults, because we were ‘niggers’.... We have seen our land despoiled under the terms of what was supposedly the law of the land but which only recognised the right of the strongest.... Noun ne sommes plus vos singes.... We are no longer your monkeys."

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