Despair to renewal: How to ‘re-member’ Kenya

An honest and critical look at Kenya today would reveal that our moral, social, cultural, political, and economic fabric is utterly dismembered. News about all sectors of our nation is often negative and citizens are overwhelmed by the immense sense of dysfunction.

How can we recall our sovereign nation from the depths of rot to which she has sunk? How can we reinstate citizens’ pride in their nation and give them a sense of belonging so that nobody has to say to fellow country(wo)men “habari ya Kenya? “ or “salimiana Kenya ukirudi” when both of them are actually in the same country? These are the questions a recently published book, (Re)membering Kenya Vol.3 (Twaweza Communications, 2014) edited by Mbugua wa Mungai and George Gona, addresses.