DEVELOPMENT: Barack OBAMA and "Constant Gardener"

DEVELOPMENT: Barack OBAMA and "Constant Gardener"

I, too, have now seen the film, "Constant Gardener". See this earlier post here. As a non-Kenyan, I found it to be a great story, and one that should serve as a wonderful conversation started between Sagam Village and others. Members of the Sagam community may be interested in reading the comments from 31 readers (as of this post) of The New York Times about the movie. (As an aside, wouldn't it be marvelous to connect the readers of The Times with readers of the Nation and the Standard with one another to talk about the movie?)

In the title, above, I have included Senator Orack OBAMA, probably the best known son of Kenya in the US today. He has been outspoken in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy here in the U.S. I heard him today on televsion talking about his view that the poor people who have been most affected by the hurricane are both black and white, and the need to confront poverty regardless of the color of one's skin.

The confluence of the film and the Senator opens up opportunities for new and important links to be constructed between out two countries, and I want to do all that I can to be of service in including Sagam near to the center of that opportunity.