While driving through Kisumu one of the things that were pointed out to us by Kyu from Millennium Promise were the burnt buildings from the civil unrest that went down last year during the presidential elections.  To make a long story short, tribal differences that each of the candidates represented and the ramifications of either of their tribes taking power led to riots and violence.  One of the hotbeds for such violence was the area we were in, although everything has since settled down.