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Reigning chaos reflects our nation's sick soul

Traffic snarl-up along Uhuru Highway, Nairobi. [Elvis Ogina, Standard]

The late Ugandan poet and scholar Okot p'Bitek (1931-1982) famously wrote about the beauty of art and the artist as the ruler of humankind.

In the essay "Artist the Ruler," Okot described himself as a student of man, and art as the soul of a people. It rules them. When it does not, anarchy reigns.

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