She chased him to the mosque. Nor does all the violence in Wajir comes from the Somali and Muslim side. Fifteen years ago, the Kenyan administration, tired of Somali inter-clan conflict, took a few thousand Somali men to an airstrip in the desert, tortured some, and left them all to die. The wives and children of the murdered Somali men now live as squatters in a bola that surrounds the Catholic Mission, a lively reminder to the Somali majority that they live at the mercy of the Kenyan government. Much Kenyan violence does not involve guns, however.
Critics complain that the country slid quickly into a neo-colonial pattern.
Foreign companies continued as the major investors in the country, sharing profits with a new Kenyan bourgeoisie. With politics seen as an avenue to personal profit, corruption took hold at all levels. Nine-tenths had been skimmed off as the rice passed through many hands on the way to her clinic. Meanwhile, even the richest parts of Kenya are sinking deep into poverty. The youth who have somehow managed to get an education, often with the help of the churches, find there are no jobs.