...Jomo Kenyatta sports grounds...

...this is how a public/private venture is doing Kisumu good...now if this was done to open up the lake for social, recreation, and business activities...

...Is it not ironical that we are at the shores of the largest lake in Africa, yet we cannot enjoy the lake...?

...these beautiful grounds were were opened up for business, and look what Kisumu got, a fresh breath of air...I cant stop imagining what the lake front would look if it was developed and made a business, social, entertainment, and cultural center...mmmh

...Jomo Kenyatta sports ground...

...and you thought I was done, take in the beauty, enjoy this view from Aguch Kisumo; the restuarant in the mid of Sports ground...

...if can we get whoever designed the new look sports ground, and whoever is managing it to give the entire town a make-over...

...think of what the lakeshore would look if this beauty was re-created at the lakefront...time is ripe for Kisumu to reclaim it's full potential...

...Kisumo are you listening...

...Do you remember when...

...Jomo Kenyatta sports ground was a dustbowl, a den of all kinds of things that gave Kisumo a bad name; ninja's, pickpockets, mateka, mentally challenged people, solid and liquid waste...and it was the path to and from the railway station...

Sports ground is now a family friendly park and recreation centre; on weekends you can spot lil kids and their parents kicking soccer balls in the field, or picknicking in the tree-dotted park; two basketball and two netball/volleyball courts are on the fire station side; the hockey pitch is all levelled with compacted murram, and two beautiful restuarants are the flagship businesses in the rehabilitated buildings at the centre.

Sidewalks ring the grounds providing a beautiful trail with trees and flowers planted along them providing a serene relaxing atmosphere.

At night the well guarded and fenced grounds leave two of the four entrances into the grounds open to those who want to enjoy lthe lakeside quisine which includes many kinds of fish, traditional vegetables, ugali, drinks of your choice, dstv, and a live resident band to crown it all.

If this is what political goodwill and public/private partnership can achieve, then it is the way to go in reclaiming and harnessing the full business, cultural and social potential of our beloved Kisumo...

...lest we forget

...at the height of the post elections demonstrations and subsequent burning and looting, a top police lady gave the order to shoot to kill... most who died were shot in the back, within the sprawling residential areas days later; miles away from the looting that occured in the CBD, where central police station is...

...if the police did not shoot you dead; you ended up in a police cell, crammed full of disenfranchized and disillusioned Kenyans, like a box of sardines waiting for trumped up charges to be read to you.

...let this photo be a shrine in the memory of those who felt the wrath of the Kenya Police; a force led by semi-illiterate political appointees who operate like a lych mob, may shame be a constant weight on their neck...

...what kind of stuff does one have to chew, sniff, smoke, drink, or inject into their bloodstream to cram people in a cell like this...

...Kondele is marwa...

...have u ever dreamt of K'Ondele town...roads paved, concrete sidewalks, clear storm drains, streetlights functioning, trees lining the road to Kibos and to Mambo leo, buildings painted and well maintained...

...K'Ondele is ripe to rise and take it's rightful place... Do we have a town planner in Kisumu, do we have a vision of how K'Ondele could look if we had all the above in place...?