Gacheke Gachihi

CHALLENGES

“The Struggle of people against power, is the struggle of Memory against forgetting”, wrote Milan Kundera.

“Reflections on practice and experience itself give birth to a theory”… Amilcar Cabral

INTRODUCTION

Last Sunday I spent great time with Comrade Kimani Ndegwa at his small house in Nairobi’s Dandora Phase 5, together with other comrades such as Munga Gathogo and Otsieno Namwaya, a reseacher with with Human Rights Watch in Kenya who had visited Kimani as well.

March 5 will remain marked in the history of Venezuela, greater Latin America and Africa and within social movements around the world.

The late Comrade Njoroge Wanguthi, a son of a Mau Mau member and a freedom fighter for the second liberation, was the embodiment of democratic struggles in Kenya in the last three decades.

This interview aimed to get an insight into the role of grassroots-level organizations in the electoral process in Kenya. Gacheke Gachihi's views are very informed and therefore enriching as he is associated with Bunge la Mwananchi (Peoples' Parliament) [1] and the Unga Revolution [2].

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There is great hope for many patriotic Kenyans who exercised their democratic and fundamental right to make an appointment with great history, in giving birth to a new constitution, that will create new legal and political frameworks to anchor the struggle of social justice and new democratic sta

From the 13 to 17 April 2009 the University of Dar es Salaam experienced moments of great reflection and soul searching.