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African Prayer: Our Most Valued Asset
Saturday, March 21st, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta hosted a national prayer day for coronavirus pandemic with other leaders in the State House. This action was commendable from a leader devoting everything to the hands of an Almighty Being. While countries like Rwanda are busy learning from working models on how to deal with this pandemic, Kenyan leaders were gathered in State house — not maintaining social distance — to pray.
According to CNBC Africa, Rwanda has the highest coronavirus case in East Africa at 17 cases, and now they have a compulsory 14 days quarantine for any new arrivals to their country, visitors, and citizens. Well, that’s a good move to help reduce new cases coming into their borders and further spread of the pandemic. Other African countries should emulate such progressive efforts to fight this pandemic before it sabotages our continent as predicted by the World Health Organization. But alas, maybe not.
Like I mentioned in my previous article on African lessons from coronavirus, prayer is good, but without substantial effort, it is void. Looking back, I notice the hopelessness that millions of people in Kenya and Africa have at the overwhelmingness of this pandemic. When President Kenyatta called for a prayer day than anything else, he was not speaking to anyone else but the millions of hopeless and poor Kenyans who cannot…
