We have two options, hold national dialogue or slide to self-destruction

When you write as I do, you keep praying for the day the country’s leadership will give you something positive to write about. It almost did, last week. Leaders demonstrated rare camaraderie at the All Saints Cathedral.

They said the person whom they were mourning had taught them a lesson in unity and tolerance. Henceforth, they said, they would seek dialogue. In the words of President Kenyatta, they would seek to talk to each other and not at each other.