Ethnic conflict takes hold in Kenya's slums
http://www.guardian.co.uk/kenya/story/0,,2248971,00.html
Xan Rice in Kibera, Nairobi
Wednesday January 30, 2008
The Guardian
Some carried golf clubs: an old fairway wood, a lofted iron, a silver putter. A young man swung a hockey stick. Others clutched pieces of plumbing pipe, rubber whips, slingshots made of rope, melon-headed clubs straight from an Asterix comic, hammers, axes, and bows and arrows. But the weapon of choice was the panga, or machete, sharpened against the railway track as if it were a whetstone.
"Everybody has to have something to defend themselves," said Jacob Otieno, a member of the Luo ethnic group, standing among a large group of angry men in the Mashimoni area, deep in Kibera, Kenya's largest slum. "They cannot just wait to be killed like a chicken in a hotel kitchen."
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