Two years after Kenya's protests killed 80, parents pressed flowers into the wire built to keep their grief from parliament. They asked only to be answered.
The voice of your brother's blood cries to me from the ground.
Genesis 4:10
The first murder in Scripture is answered by the ground itself. God asks where the victim is, and the dirt speaks for him. Blood does not stay quiet where it falls. The God who made the soil refuses to pretend the body was never there.
In Nairobi, the state wrapped its parliament in wire so that grief could not touch the building. Two years after more than 80 people were killed in the 2024 protests, parents came with flowers and pressed them into the barricade. One mother asked for almost nothing: that the officers who shot her twelve-year-old son, Kennedy, be named, and that they apologize. On the anniversary, 355 more people were arrested.
A barricade can hold bodies at a distance. It was never built to hold back a cry. The oldest story in the book already knew where that cry would land.