Saturday, April 4th, saw the 47th anniversary of the murder of Martin Luther King on the second floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, an event that always resonates whenever I visit Memphis, or Atlanta where Dr King is buried.

Martin Luther King along with Ghandi and Nelson Mandela was undoubtedly one of the towering figures of last century’s struggle for equality and basic human rights, a struggle in the first two cases certainly, of peaceful protest.

It is therefore both sad and depressing to turn on the television and learn of yet more atrocities committed in the name of race or religion such as the weekend’s brutal slaughter of over 148 people, mainly young students, at a university in Kenya.

Has humanity learned nothing from the actions of these great men?