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Obama's Ruined Homeland

By Laura Flanders

January 31, 2007

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  • It's terrible to hear of the disaster caused by this corporation in Western Kenya. However, I spotted a factual error in Laura Flanders's article. 45,000 kenya shillings would currently be about $617 US, not $60, and this is after the kenya shilling has been dropping due to the post-election violence. When I was there in December, the exchange rate was 60 shillings to a dollar, or $750 us for 45,000 shillings. That doesn't mean it was just for the corporation to ruin these people's homes, but your article was greatly weakened by a blatant factual error. $60 US would have gotten me 3,600 shillings, not 45,000 shillings, while I was in Kenya over the New Year.

    Thank you for taking the time to read this, and thank you, Nation, for otherwise covering the Kenyan situation so well. I have especially enjoyed the writings of Tavia Nyang'o on the election.

    Rebecca Harshbarger

    New York, NY

    02/21/2008 @ 07:06am


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