Why Lumumba’s tenure at Sonu may haunt him

By Charles Wachira

"Show me a hero and I write you a tragedy," said F Scott Fitzgerald, an American writer. In retrospective, he may have had Kenya in close quarters. For veritably, as recent as the mid 1980s, precocious revolutionaries, intent on cleansing the country’s decayed body politic were incubating at the University of Nairobi.