Singing a revolution song from the rooftop, close to power seat

Last Saturday afternoon, just a stone’s throw from the seat of power, the Nairobi State House, a groovy beat rent the air, springing the assembled crowd to its feet, the thunderous stomping shaking the rooftop of the Africa Alliance of YMCA building.

The departed freedom icon Wangari Maathai smiled from a mural as a lanky youth ambled to where the Chief Justice, Man Willy, was seated, and sang a song that was everyone’s lip: