We are indebted to Kenya’s great achievers and thinkers of our time

Some time I look back at Kenya’s history and just marvel at some of the great achievers we have had who we neither recognise nor celebrate.

I am not talking of the well known writers like Ngugi wa Thiong’o, statesmen like Tom Mboya, artists like Elimo Njau, men of letters and culture like Joe Murumbi or athletes like Kipchoge Keino. I am talking of that doctor on River Road or Cargen House who toiled for years curing the sick at a meagre fee from colonial times, through independence and into our times until he retired into oblivion.