Aristofanes' old, Greek comedy 'Lysistrata' - it is a comic account of one woman's extraordinary mission to end The Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata convinces the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands as a means of forcing the men to negotiate a peace, a strategy.
Somebody must have been reading that in Kenya? Or maybe the idea is just plain simple:
In seven days, women in Kenya will refuse to go to bed with their husbands. Women in Kenya fear that the bickering between the country's president and the prime minister will lead to new unrest in Kenya.
Therefore, they initiated an alternative campaign: They will refuse to have sex with their husbands in seven days. The women behind the campaign hope the government rivals' wives Lucy Kibaki and Ida Odinga will also participate.
'Big decisions are taken in the bedroom, so we ask the two women to ask their men: Honey, can you do something for Kenya?', explains Patricia Nyaundi, one of the women behind the campaign to BBC.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga last year in March agreed to share power among themselves to establish peace in Kenya, though they came from each their own party. Unrest in Kenya followed the elections in December 2007 when Kibaki declared himself the winner, while opposition leader Odinga claimed that there had been fraud in the election result and he was backed by international observers. Disputes after the election claimed 1,500 lives and drove 300,000 from their homes before the rivals ended peace.
Respect to the women of Kenya for thinking out of the box.
The text is partly taken from politiken.dk and from BBC Africa.
