Tinga's final lesson dares Kenyans to step in the arena

Raila Odinga's body drapped with a Kenyan flag during a state funeral at Nyayo Stadium. [Edward Kiplimo, Standard]

A former American president once gave a speech titled Citizenship in a Republic which is famous for a section that talks about “the man in the arena.”

This section of the speech argues, in part, that it is not the critics who count, but those who choose to jump into the arena. “The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again...”