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Let us renew our social contract this Jamhuri Day

Kenya will turn 60 next week. As we prepare to celebrate the birth of the country, we should take stock of the past and plot for the future.

Looking back, we should ask ourselves: what have we done to honour the sacrifices of those who fought and died so we might be free? Would they be proud of our history over the last 60 years? And looking ahead, we should ask: what can we do to honour the ancestors, while also preparing a better Kenya for future generations?

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