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How denying ourselves a taste of the good life has fuelled corruption

Kisumu residents buy second hand clothes commonly known as mitumba at Kibuye market

A visit to a tea factory in Central Kenya once provoked me. I was told the best tea is exported, and the growers get the leftovers, which they buy from the factory. The best tea is reserved for others (read, those who can afford it) in far-off countries.

It is not just tea. Good cars are for the others, not us. We get the cars after their owners are tired of them.

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