Date: January 4th, 2008

Kenya: Always the poor suffer first

4 January, 2008 (10:30) | Kenya, Kibera, Slums, World news | No comments

When tragedy strikes, the poor suffer first.  When violence breaks out, the poor suffer most. 

Riots are so depressing, I think, because they are the poor expressing rage and the immediate effect of their rage is to make themselves poorer — by destroying what the poor have. 
 
Such a spectacle appears to be gripping Kenya [...]