3.

''Mr. Backlash, Mr. Backlash
Just what do you think I got to lose
I'm gonna leave you
With the backlash blues
You're the one will have the blues
Not me, just wait and see''
- from Backlash Blues by Langston Hughes, Nina Simone

Mr Robert Cooper, who is the right hand of the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy and the Secretary-General of both the Council of the European Union and the Western European Union, wrote:

"What is needed then is a new kind of imperialism, one acceptable to a world of human rights and cosmopolitan values. We can already discern its outline: an imperialism which, like all imperialism, aims to bring order and organisation but which rests today on the voluntary principle" (The Observer, 7 April, 2002).

Here, Mr. Cooper sounds like he would be living in the age of H.G. Wells and the British Empire, but at occasions he also speaks like a Cold War hawk:

Maybe we are going to use nuclear weapons before anyone else, but I'd be wary of saying it out loud

he stated to the Brussels Correspondent of ''The Guardian in January 2008.

Mr. Daniel Onyango, a young inhabitant of Korogocho, one of the slums of Nairobi, takes us back to the present realities :

Here is common that many young people are shot everyday on suspicion of been criminal's especially when the former minister of internal security who was there last year issued a shot to kill order to police to kill any person suspected to be a criminal. In fact immediately after my cousin was shot other two young people were shot by police just a few meter's from where we stay." ..."we are fine and doing well. Isaiah is doing well in the Piano, Simon also well in playing the guitar and we also have another young man who is playing for us too. Am also learning to play the percussion and other instruments." ..."we have found somebody who specialize in computer and willing to get for us one at a very cheap price, we have also contributed some few money among ourself so that we can be able to have one though the money is not yet enough.If you could know somebody from your country who might be coming to Nairobi you could also send him come with it if you may be able to find one. (Quoted with permission from Mr Onyango's recent email. You may also want to read his article Light in Korogocho.)