Turmoil comes before any meaningful change

Kenyans want change to happen peacefully. Unfortunately, there is an abundance in history showing the contrary to be true. Throughout human history, change happened through unrest, sometimes violence. Seeing the rhetoric and the positions being taken around the election today, I sadly predict a period of turmoil that we must endure before what German philosopher Fredric Hegel called the triad idea - thesis-antithesis-synthesis cycle - is actualised.

This triad is referred to in social sciences as the dialectical method. It explains the complex process through which change takes place in human civilisation.