Today's Kenya song, Saturday 12 December, is the happy whistling of an Islamic boy from the island of Lamu who has received a scooter as a gift.
It was not given to him by the Italian government, nor is it part of an eco-sustainability campaign against pollution from big cities, because the only pollution that can reach the archipelago north of Kenya, where almost everything has remained unchanged for decades, is that of the port that Kenya and Ethiopia would like to build.
Two days ago on the island were President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Ethiopian colleague, Prime Minister Abdyi Ahmed Ali who, after taking the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, put the Tigray region on fire at home, guilty in his own words of being a den of nationalist rebels.
But the little boy from Lamu, who moves with his scooter between old Arab houses and new buildings of the ecotourism that has fascinated the island long before it became a fashion, is unaware of certain things and only thinks that all this calm, this apparent poverty that in front of the Indian ocean, its fish, the juice of the fruits that continue to grow in the whole and a bit of vegetable that comes from the green forests of Boni, could last forever. Cars have not yet arrived in Lamu, but unfortunately the signs of (in)civilisation can be seen in the motorbikes and a few tuk-tuks. Do you know why they have arrived, after centuries of tranquillity? Because of the political elections, to allow councillors and activists to go everywhere to spread the "word of their Lords".
Long live the scooter, long live the ancestral anarchy of Lamu.