David Zarembka, coordinator of the Africa Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) will lead two discussions in March on the post-election crisis in Kenya and how the AGLI is addressing the ethnic conflict in that east African country. On March 2, David will be the featured speakers at the William Penn House following the monthly Sunday evening potluck. On March 16, David will speak at Bethesda Friends Meeting at 12:30 p.m. following meeting for worship.

A longtime Bethesda Friends Meeting (BFM) member now living in Kenya, David will be accompanied by his wife Gladys Kamonya, also a member of BFM. David established AGLI in the 1998 with the support of BFM. Working with local African Friends and others, AGLI offers alternatives to violence (AVP) workshops and other reconciliation programs in Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya.

David will discuss the colonial and post-independence roots of the current inter-ethnic violence in Kenya that has resulted in more than 1,000 deaths and over 250,000 persons being displaced from their homes since the December 27 elections. He will give an update on AGLI's efforts to address the current situation in western Kenya where many Kenyan Quakers live.