Yes him.
Bill Clinton‘s discredited former adviser who is now a reactionary Fox News commentator was hired as a consultant by the opposition Orange Democratic Movement. What he was up is still a mystery, but some in the Kenyan media have speculated as to Morris’ advice to the ODM.
Which brings me to this post’s topic: Informed opinion agrees that the Kenyan government is acting in bad faith (and that’s an understatement). It uses the police force to rack up a high body count, plays tribal politics and clearly rigged the election.
But what about the Orange Democratic Movement?
Here’s two views from the Kenyan left, the first by US-based writer Mukoma Wa Ngugi who identifies three factions in the opposition: ‘the activist-intellectual left, the Moi-ist retrogressives, and the populists’; Morris features in one of these groups. The second opinion is by Kaima Kaara, a researcher with the Kenya Debt Relief Network outlined at a seminar in Durban, South Africa, here)
