The most recent cover of Vanity Fair is kicking up a storm in the United States. Not that I think it is particularly meritworthy of the noise it has created, but there's something interesting about this fuss.

Vanity Fair, in a cover dedicated to young, upcoming female actors, decided to go with a lily white cast. They are all beautiful, everyone concedes, and anyone whose watched Hollywood trends would understand that from these fair maidens will come the next batch of multi-million contract, award-winning A-listers.

But this is the post-racial, Obama age, and for all the beauty of this Anne Libowitz photo, it is interesting that colour/ or its absence is still as powerful a topic as it is today.

Why can't we see nine beautiful girls? Why do we instead see nine thin white girls?

Kenyan television, from news presenters to the cast of television shows - talk shows like the Patricia Show and even television dramas like Nairobi Law, tries to reflect some of the diversity of Kenyan society. But is this a duty? Would it be wrong not to, or is it only laudatory so to do?

I have been thinking with my friends, who else would you have on the cover? No one really has good answers, so on my part, I am giving Vanity Fair a pass. 

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