Just been wondering what character this page should take the ‘mission statement’ is given above but I am still thinking about it. One of my favourite topics is ‘development’ luckily this is not a political site because apart from Ken Matiba, who was also minister for sports and the football association chairman development conscious people have a poor political record.

Then there was a newspaper column called whispers by Wahome Mutahi who had a spouse named Thatcher and two children whis junior, and his sister Pajero aka the investment. Wahome who was probably Ngugi’s student at the University and a former seminarian appears to have outshone his teacher. He was assured of a readership of at least a ¼ million readers every week that probably spilled into his bar theatre. He had the kind of influence even among Ngugi’s target group that he can only dream of.

Why am I bringing up Whispers? Well I have been thinking of bringing up a narrative character of my own called Clay of no given age whose occasional resemblance to a living person may be deliberate or coincidental.

As usual Clay the British envoy has been rousing feathers payukaring here and there soiling his diplomatic uniform and encouraging his diplomatic siblings from Germany to do likewise and we are all being paternal towards him.

On a different mien the headline news in Kenya and indeed Africa today has been the Nobel prize given to Wangare Maathai, coffee and land.

Wangare has done what no Kenya has ever been able to do and that is get world recognition. Perhaps according to the Chinese Zodiac her year of birth has something to do with it. She was born in the year of the golden dragon and so supposedly destined to be a scholar and great person.

Now she should use her greatness and get the Chinese and others to turn our country into an indigineous forest by planting enough seedlings. This should be affordable the eastern and northern parts of the country need it.

As for coffee we need to move from a farmer based market to a buyer based market. Appoint agents where the buyer is and send him the coffee or better still trade online. Buy into small to medium scale roasters in important markets in order to gain shelf space.

Something should be done about idle arable land as stated in an earler article and state corporations in the industry encouraged to partner with global players. We should move our power generation from water to geothermal and offshore gas and save our water for farming and afforestation.