Karambu Ringera - fighting for human rights in Kenya.

Quotation:

Mainstream economics informs us that the economy of Kenya is not growing and that is why we are poor. I say that Kenya is not poor. It is the management of its resources that is poor. Our education is not geared towards meeting our national priorities – it serves us with knowledge to serve the international market. Our own local needs are compromised by the compulsion to export, to meet the demands of the developing nations.

Polls

What do you asociate most with Kenya?

	Travel and Safaris
	The Massai
	Nobel laureate Wangari Mathai
	Art and Artifacts
	Don't know much about Kenya

Dr. Karambu Ringera Has Been Busy in 2008!

Dr. Karambu writes about:

- the post-election violence in Kenya: Reuter's newsAlerts: http://www.alertnet.org/db/blogs/1516/2008/03/15-103641-1.htm

- her visit to and efforts in a camp for Internally Displace People (IDP) in the February issue of World Pulse, an international online women's magazine: http://www.worldpulsemagazine.com/newsletters/2008/0215/feature.html

The American Association of University Women writes about Dr. Karambu's visit to their office in Washington, DC: http://blog-aauw.org/2008/04/25/runningforpeace/

Dr. Karambu presents at:

- Yale University, Women's Leadership Initiative: yalestation.org/calendar/?d=2008-04

- the peacexpeace 2008 Peace Salon in Washington, DC: http://www.peacexpeace.org/content/en/node/1145

- the 60th Conference on World Affairs, Boulder, Colorado: http://www.colorado.edu/cwa/bios.html?id=769&year=2008

- Silver Creek High School, Longmont, Colorado: http://www.timescall.com/region-story.asp?ID=8068

Temporary Calm or Lasting Peace: What Will Be The Legacy of Kenya's Coalition Government?

The coalition government is not enough to bring lasting peace and stability. The sharing of power solution will neither encourage displaced people to return home nor ease Kenya's smoldering ethnic and economic divisions. Why? Because the solutions to peace, stability, re-settlement and ethnic and economic divisions lie deeper than the mere creation of a coalition government, which is a political fix, not a social one. Solutions to these issues lie in the creation of inclusive, just and fair systems and institutions of governance, including addressing historical disparities in land distribution and access to resources, economic possibility and social justice for all.

An End, a Beginning…

When I held my Meru Town Hall event in Meru, Kenya back in September, a male lawyer stood up at questions and answers session and said: “You will not win these elections because of five things: you are a woman, you have no money, your education will not help you, you do not know the geography of your constituency and you do not have any knowledge of the culture of your people.” By the time he was through elaborating on his points, most of the people in the audience were booing him and asking him to sit down. He stood his ground till he was done. All of his five elements played out in one way or another in my campaign trail.

Karambu Ringera - fighting for human rights in Kenya.

"I Am Because You Are."