Stephen Musau

As Kenya today celebrates Madaraka Day, yesterday’s street events, dubbed ‘Unga Revolution’, should be a reminder to the government that this phenomenon is not over.

The events in the conflict-torn Libya and many other countries in North Africa, the Middle East and elsewhere – including what is emerging in Uganda – warrant the attention of all peace-loving and development-conscious people, globally.

It is not easy to write a tribute for a true comrade, a revolutionary, an environmentalist, a peoples’ advocate, a principled politician, a global citizen, an intellectual and creative thinker like Ng’ang’a Thiong’o.

It was Abraham Lincoln who said, 'The possibility that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter anyone from the support of a course we all of us believe to be just.'