RIFT VALLEY, Kenya - Kenyan students sit in class, January, 2009. Image used under Fair Use: CJTF-HOA.Protests, teargas and chaos have characterised the political scene in Kenya since the Supreme Court annulled the August 8 presidential poll. The court, in a 4-2 majority decision, cited irregularities and illegalities in the way the results were transmitted.
Many supporters of president Kenyatta expected him to disobey the Supreme Court ruling, in – if nothing else – the name of the name of the 'supreme will of the people'. Still others thought that by respecting the ruling without a fight, he had joined the non-violence brotherhood – the league of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King.
For opposition presidential candidate Raila Odinga, this presented an opportunity for another stab at the elusive presidency. Indeed, he can be credited with most of Kenya’s democratic struggles. Many are keen that his story not mirror that of Sisyphus from Greek mythology, who was condemned by the gods to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. There is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labour.
