El-Adde could prove to be Kenya’s defining moment

They wept in sorrow and grief. But their deaths — and injuries — will not be in vain. Nor will those who may have been taken hostage by the enemy. That place — El-Adde — was the turning point of Kenya’s war against Al-Shabaab. Everything changed on that day — everything.

A remote, godforsaken outpost in the middle of nowhere — a desolate place no one had ever heard of before — has been written in the blood of the gallant men and women of KDF. It’s the single incident in Kenya’s history that may forge us into a nation — as opposed to a collection of tribes. The massacre of KDF soldiers in El-Adde will make us, or break us. I’ll tell you why.