All waiting for the results, as if announcing one president over the other would change anything.
All mostly looking at democracy as one more hope to see personal interests satisfied before those of the community.
But this is how it is, and living (for work, mind you) these processes in Africa as I have to do, after my experience as a journalist and citizen in Italy, is so demented that it almost amuses me. Except that then we come back to the endemic problems of this land: to hunger, poverty, non-existent health and education, abuse of power and rampant corruption.
The important thing is that the troubles of all time are not added to by others, out of frustration or simple, stupid parochialism, which here means 'tribalism' and is a little scarier than the Guelphs and Ghibellines at home.
As the Maestro said, even today it is 'a very beautiful morning, an already spring-like air in which you feel cleaner, even the street is cleaner with no noise and no sounds'.
It hardly rains when there are elections. In Kenya, however, it sometimes happens worse in the sun.
I was there in 2008 and reported day by day on the feuds, the massacres, the thousands of souls enraged by the puppet masters in power. The impression is that it can never be repeated, that it was a lesson for everyone, especially for the international economic interests of the puppet masters themselves.
In the meantime, the media airs the slowest ritual Kenya knows how to stage (and here slowness is an art), with scrutiny worthy of traditional ceremonies. Here, weddings and funerals last four days and four nights, why should elections ever escape this custom?
But that's not all, in the African 'demoanarchy', everyone can publish the data he or she wants, from the constituencies he or she prefers, as he or she likes. So tonight we will finally have one unofficial result, and perhaps tomorrow night or Saturday morning the official one, which may not even be the president but the announcement of the ballot date.
As we say here 'Mungu akipenda', God willing.
And God, you know, is in no hurry....