Uhuru and Raila owe us an urgent solution to the current impasse

That this week’s election was a flop is beyond question. What is important is what we do next as a country.

Our collective tragic reality is that Kenya is quickly losing the levels of elite consensus that kept us united as country. Yes, we have always had deep regional and ethnic political differences. But for much of our history, our elites (of all political and ideological stripes) felt hopeful about the future, and about the sustainability of our political system. All that seems to have dissolved.