FAREWELL, JAKOM
Friends, patriots, children of this Kenyan soil, lend me your ears.I come not to praise Raila, nor to curse him.But to lay wreaths of truth upon his long, arduous road.He was Jakom, the people’s leader.Son of Odinga, heir to the unfinished dream.When Moi’s shadow fell like a drought upon our tongues.He rose, flame in hand, with Matiba, Rubia and others beside him.Their names carrying in whispers…












