there's one part of me that wants to see the uhuru kenyatta in court.ut you blink like this, the ivory coast has hiccups, and the french are back inside like this, running everything again. mali and so forth. we have to watch these things. we do have these relationships. that relationship is well documented between the west and africa and it continues. this gets to the nub of the conversation. it seems to me on one hand, you say we are a new africa and not the generation that fought the liberation wars anymore. we're post—postcolonial. but on another level, you're full of the suspicion, mistrust and resentment that fuelled the generation of mugabe and others. put it like this — we are not a new africa. we are beginning to be a new africa. we have not arrived. we are setting off on a tentative, dangerous, thrilling, amazing journey, which i want to be a part of. you want to make it on your own. the moment you think you know something, you have to shift around. those are good adventures. the only thing i do not want is to be sitting there and watching the

you original uhuru kenyatta, and the president,... you mean culturally and politically?turally and politically, you know, and i had come of age at a time when kenya was a single party states, so coming from this sort of political straitjacket, as it were, ifelt i wa nted straitjacket, as it were, ifelt i wanted to have a message on my music that brought people together, that made us focus on what was going wrong in kenya. ati.i made us focus on what was going wrong in kenya. at h was singing for this archipelago, and our leader was coming back to nairobi from his rural hometown, and he said to us, you know, because we got the attention of kenya, we need to address issues. he was coming back from the valley, and on either side of the highway, homes were on fire, and he said, look, wejust got to do something about this. but recently, i think something about this. but recently, ithinki something about this. but recently, i think ijust wanted to write a record, this new one that i have just put out, called dreams in stereo, that address is a lot more personal stuff. it's an