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Kenya's colonial demonic mantle

image from shutterstock Covid-19 came. And with it the decision to curtail movement as much as possible. Work from home, physical distancing, and then – a curfew. With the curfew – came brutality on the Kenyan civilian by the police. Not all police. Some. Yes – the Kenyan was outside the curfew time. Like the woman in the background of a news clip, walking in town at dusk, with one child on her back, the other’s hand tightly clutched, and her bag in the other hand. Past seven pm. I hope she and her children got home safely without receiving a bludgeoning from the police. I have watched one news briefing and a few videos. I am trying not to watch any more. My heart is hurt. What has rend my heart is not the beating of the Kenyan by the police. It was the glee, the sniggering, the snickering, the unseemly comments they made as they beat me and you. The savage emotional violence against a fellow Kenyan. Repeated by an alleged policeman on a video clip. I have spoken ...