In 2005, The Per Capita Income Of Kenya Was US $463

by tristero

So sez Centre for Business Information in Kenya. Now, I’m no economist, and I understand one can quibble about how useful per capita income is when comparing economies. Even so, a pci of $463 is a truly sobering figure for those of us in the USA, where a penthouse apartment can set you back as much as $70 million (pending board approval, of course) and where our own pci is $42, 000

So what is the vital issue that the evangelicals of Kenya plan to focus on next year? You guessed it:

Leaders of Kenya’s Pentecostal congregation, with six million adherents, want the human fossils [in Kenya’s National Museum, some of the most important fossils in tracing the evolution of hominids to modern Homo Sapiens] de-emphasized.

“The Christian community here is very uncomfortable that Leakey and his group want their theories presented as fact,” said Bishop Bonifes Adoyo, head of the largest Pentecostal church in Kenya, the Christ is the Answer Ministries.

“Our doctrine is not that we evolved from apes, and we have grave concerns that the museum wants to enhance the prominence of something presented as fact which is just one theory,” the bishop said.

Bishop Adoyo said all the country’s churches would unite to force the museum to change its focus when it reopens after eighteen months of renovations in June 2007. “We will write to them, we will call them, we will make sure our people know about this, and we will see what we can do to make our voice known,” he said.

Dear Bishop Adoyo, If you ever get tired fighting the good fight in Kenya, Move here! I’m sure you’ll find a really great job that pays a lot more than the price of a single iPod, give or take.