Marvel of this regime is how best it killed our hopes

I was surprised by how positive much of the commentary on the 40th anniversary of the death of Jomo Kenyatta was.

I guess some of that is because of our human trait not to criticise the dead, especially on “their” days. But I also think that part of it is the unspoken comparison between Kenyatta Senior and Junior. And here, the son is a poor shadow of the father—and he knows it—which is why he has publicly blamed the new Constitution for his shortcomings.