Meanwhile in Nairobi

The son of Kenya and Kansas has won the Iowa Caucus for the Democratic Party. More than 2500 journalists were trying to tell us what it all means, while simultaneously try not to get whacked unconscious by the surrounding spin.

Half a world away, a much smaller group of journalists were trying not to get whacked as they covered riots which continue to spread across Kenya. Nairobi and other cities in this beautiful land have been engulfed in a week of mayhem following an election filled with, ah… er, irregularities. More than 300 have been killed in the past four days.

Have a look here to see some views of a Thursday in limbo, courtesy of some talented men and women trying to tell a story. An intrepid scribbler found a way to tie the stories together at the source. From the piece in the Times, “Senator Obama’s father, a goatherder turned economist, grew up in Nyangoma-Kogelo and was buried there in 1982 after a fatal car crash. When Senator Obama, Democrat of Illinois, visited Kenya in August 2006, he received a hero’s welcome here by residents, who consider him a role model and a symbol of American opportunity and multiculturalism.” The chaos of that visit was documented by Gary Knight, a member of the photojournalist’s cooperative called VII.