Editorial

A Prayer For Strength, For All Of Us

We lost a beloved nephew through an aggravated robbery-shooting incident in the US last month. Not even in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined my family member being

A Prayer For Strength, For All Of Us
  • PublishedJune 28, 2016

We lost a beloved nephew through an aggravated robbery-shooting incident in the US last month. Not even in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagined my family member being part of the statistics of deaths from the much talked about gun violence in the US. I hardly paid any attention to the raging gun-control debate by the US presidential candidates as I assumed it was an American problem with little consequence for us here in Kenya. Little did I know I would be mourning my nephew killed in a far-away land by a gun-trotting criminal even before the elections were held.

Published in July 2016

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