And then I read about the attack in Nairobi at the Dusit hotel in which at least 14 people were killed. Briton and American among dead in Nairobi hotel attack Read moreMy family and I had been planning to stay at the Dusit hotel next month when they come to visit me in Kenya. They are most erudite when speaking of violence – think of those well-produced Isis videos of torture and death. After the 2013 Westgate Mall attack, the Kenyan government went on to do everything it should not have done. If we don’t change, if we continue with the terror tit-for-tat, we will be creating yet another set of these manmade disasters.

Source: The Guardian January 16, 2019 15:30 UTC