The goofing trend, knee-jerk reactions from State House are disturbing

President Uhuru Kenyatta will possibly know of the wonders of Mansa Musa Keita the Great (1280 – 1337). This man was the tenth Mansa, or “the King of Kings” of the Kingdom of Mali in West Africa, in the 14th century. Storytellers, like the Moroccan traveller Ibn Batuta (1304 – 1369), have told us about Mansa fabled pilgrimage to Mecca, in 1324, for example.

It is said that the “King of Kings” made the holy visit to Mecca via Egypt and Medina, in the company of 60,000 men, who included 12,000 slaves. Each slave carried no less than four pounds of gold.