Kenyans at sea with bridges Uhuru and Raila are building

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition leader Raila Odinga

We must learn to be unfazed by temporary fads. The grain of history teaches us that sudden bouts of camaraderie and mysterious overflows of positive energy between perennial rivals are not to be trusted.

The serpent hisses wherever such sweet birds sing. In the end, you learn not to be swayed by crowds and the bombast of passing political achievements. This is where the recent hullabaloo about President Trump’s amity with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un resides. Also in the same docket is Kenya’s fabled handshake between Raila Odinga and Uhuru Kenyatta. The two happenings make for a lot of political drama and hardly much else.