Annan-ship (Or Perhaps, Maybe, The End is in Sight?)

Right now, I'm loving Annan so much that it's threatening to become a cult.

I love his grit and determination, his "I'm not ready to contemplate failure. I'm not ready to give up now."

Of all the people involved in this process, he's the only one I've been able to trust as not having come laden with a basketful of hidden agendas or worse still, having been lowered as a puppet into our circumstances by "vested interests."

I'm the people, and I feel as though Annan is looking beyond the shenanigans of both sides of the political divide, that he sees me, and that he is using me as a true north, to navigate his way to the Kenya That Ought To Be from this desolate place called Kenya Today.

Now he says that a political settlement will be announced next week.

It's looking to me like we'll have a government of national unity. I can live with a government of national unity. Especially if that government is charged primarily with bringing about the kind of reform that will ensure that we will never go down this road again.

Let this be a Reform Term, however long the term might be. Let it be clear that this is an Extraordinary Term, and that the 10th parliament's responsibility is to help us successfully build a bridge from the Kenya that was to the Kenya we want.

(Ohmygoodness. Could we really have finally turned the corner? Must be, with the ban on both live media coverage and holding of public rallies lifted. I can hardly believe it. Perhaps I should say I'm afraid to believe it, although I want to believe it so badly. ohmygoodness.)