ODM vs. PNU

So on Wednesday at Oasis, I taught class 4 & 5 Social Studies, as per request of a street boy named Kevin. I picked Democracy and Human Rights, a favorite subject of mine.

So as we progressed through the lesson, we came to talk about the politcal parties in Kenya. The main ones are ODM Orange Democratic Movement) and PNU (Party of National Unity).

ODM party symbol


Kenyan Crest


The kids got quite interested in talking about the two parties and a couple times Manu, one of the teachers, and I had to quiet them down again. So we decided to have a friendly debate over the 2 parties and what each of them stands for. It was supposed to happen yesterday, but they had a soccer match, so it's been postponed for now.

The current President, Kibaki, is PNU and the Prime Minister, Raila Odinga, is ODM. I don't know how much people in the states know about what happened here almost a year ago, but there was a lot of political turmoil and violence after the elections in Dec. About 1,300 people were killed when rioting broke out over Kibaki, who is Kikuyu, winning the election amid allegations from the Luyas, Odinga's tribe, that accused Kibaki and his tribe of rigging the election.

Things have settled down here since the 2 parties we able to reach a power-sharing agreement last spring. But I've been trying to do some research as to who stand for what, so if you know or can provide a good link let me know, Im having a bit of a time on google...