Oh, my friends, do what it takes for you to go and visit Kenya this year and celebrate, celebrate with them the end of a long illness!

Put aside your fears today, put aside your doubts and let your happiness well up and overflow your heart. Today, on the first day of a new year, Kenya carries with her all the hopes and dreams and joys of all freedom loving people!

Kenya has always been beautiful. But I cannot wait until I get to go there again and to see the smiles on my friends' faces as they tell me about the future that has for so long been deferred.