You may not like his style, but that doesn't make Ruto a dictator

President William Ruto addresses residents after the launch of the Sogoo-Melelo-Ololung’a Road during a tour of Narok County, on May 7, 2025.  [Kipsang Joseph, Standard] 

There is a worrying lack of depth in the way many young Kenyans, especially Gen Z, engage with politics. For Gen Z, everything is about “vibes.” Everything is “down with the system.” But when you strip away the slogans and trending hashtags, what’s left is often an alarming ignorance of how power actually works.

Unknown to them, politics isn’t child’s play. Politics isn’t content creation. Politics is a vast field of social sciences that great thinkers like Aristotle, Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, and others worked to untangle.