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Ethnic Fault Lines Emerge in Kenya's Post-Election Turmoil
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Others were less magnanimous. They said that Kikuyus, who own and rent out most of the houses in Kangeme, had suddenly raised rents or asked non-Kikuyu tenants to move out.
"They started to tell us yesterday!" said Newton Kwemba, an Odinga supporter. "They told me to go back to Kakamega," his upcountry home, he said. "They said I should leave. But I will die rather than leave. If I die, okay."
Not too far away, in front of the smoking ruins of a vegetable and fruit market, friends Agnes Moraa, an Odinga supporter, and Mary Wanjiro, a Kibaki supporter, were sitting together on a wooden bench.
Their kiosks had been burned down during the night, and now they were selling their mangoes and pineapples out of a cardboard box.
"The Luos burned the market down because they said it was owned by Kikuyus," said Moraa.
Asked whether the rioting had altered their relationship, Wanjiro put her arm around her friend, with whom she has sold vegetables and swapped stories for three years.
"Not us," she said. "But others, yes. And it's going to be that way. There is a lot of fear."
