Recently, I, along with many Kenyans, watched on TV, the funeral of the 23-year old son of Kenya's Finance Minister, Njeru Githae. We watched the mourners break down and sob bitterly. We watched somber-faced acquaintances try to comfort the family. We watched how Brian's parents looked at the coffin go down into the ground and how they desperately tried to master the sorrow tormenting them.

No matter how macho old school African parents may claim to be, one thing has and will always remain true: There is nothing that causes more sorrow than the death of a child. It is almost a taboo for a parent to outlive their child and there is nothing that causes as much grief as the death of a child whose formative years are barely over. Now take that scenario and add it to the fact that the same child whose death has caused so much turmoil actually killed himself.

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Well , this is really sad scenario.

very sad indeed. by the way do you realise that we sing and dance to celebrate. we cry so hard to moan our family and friends, even strangers. to some this may be strange, but to Africans it's life.