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Kenya's sports reporters do not want to think, ask questions or work

Three columns ago, I changed the order of play and wrote that Kenyan football is not only deader than a dodo, but is going nowhere, not even to hell even though it is full of sins. In the process, I mentioned that Kenya used to have sports journalists, but the factory which used to produce them closed shop.

For that sentence, some spineless semblance of sports reporters plucked some courage and said my piece was good, but I “should have provided solutions.”

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