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Is Kenya going through a winter of discontent? Let's watch out

An aerial view of the coastline of Greenland in winter. Notice the icebergs. What will come after our winter of discontent?

The winter of discontent refers to the period from 1978-1979 characterised by industrial action, or better strikes after the British Labour government of James Callaghan capped wages to tame inflation.

The term was originally borrowed from celebrated British poet William Shakespeare. High school students in Kenya once read his Romeo and Juliet. Noted how our weather has been unusually cold or wintery this year?

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