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Presidents Obama and Uhuru on Gay rights during a press conference in Kenya

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In a joint press conference held on Saturday 25 th July 2015 in Nairobi, the Unites States of America president Barrack Obama lectured the president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta on gay rights. "When you start treating people differently not because of any harm they are doing to anybody, but because they are different, that's the path whereby freedoms begin to erode," he continued to say "And bad things happen." Despite many Kenya leaders discouraging Obama on discussing gay rights when he visited the country for the first time, Obama did not shy off. In fact, he equated legalized discrimination of gays to legalized racism in America. "And when a government gets in a habit of people treating people differently, those habits can spread. As an African-American, I am painfully aware of what happens when people are treated differently under the law." Obama stated. Kenyatta made it very clear that although the U.S and Kenya share many comm...

I really miss those days when

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Change is inevitable, as long as time passes, there will always be a change.  But honestly speaking, # ireallymissthosedayswhen   life was simple. I miss my childhood days. Others would share in my sentiments. Find below some of the things I really miss. I really miss those days whentruth was in fashion . These were the days when telling a lie was the biggest sin on earth. Nowadays people lie all the time and when you tell the truth, you are the odd one out. What happened to our values? Newsflash: even a white lie is a lie. A lie is a lie. And you will notice that when you tell a lie, you have tell another to cover the previous one, and you end up telling a series of lies. The big deal is that ‘When you tell a lie more than three times, you believe it yourself.’ So this Chinese proverb is just alerting you that the person you lie to the most is yourself. Truth is good, it sets you free . I really miss those days when I was safe wherever I was. You know those days ...

President of United States of America coming to my village-Kogelo

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Haters are going to hate, Players are going to play but we all know, Obama is coming to town. Kogelo, our home land, the land of our ancestors; Welcome home our president, the president of the United states of America, is coming to my back yard.  There is each and every opportunity for everyone to do absolutely anything and everything during this visit by the president of United states to our land; Those who want to make good business have endless opportunities, Those who want to grow in the politics have a great chance, Those who want to hate have all the reasons to, those who are cluesless have absolutely no clue, It’s all about what you want to do and how you look at it.  Life change for my brothers and sisters back in the village; This is how I am related to Obama, I am a typical Luo and so Obama is my relative by default. That is all you need to know. Let's forget his half-brother Malik who is upset since Obama did not personally communicate to him that he woul...