We have to reform Kenya and Kenyan’s minds

I don’t like comparing Kenya to her neighbors. Having traveled all the East African countries and the great lakes region countries severally and with an eye of a curious researcher, I find Kenya should be aspiring to be in the league of quite advanced nations you find Europe, America and some Asian countries. I say this because If I sample the level of democratic developments and the relatively freer media and civil society (though there have been recent attempts to claw back these gains) Kenya is relatively developed in some respects. I keep a close eye on political dynamics in countries in the region like Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, South Sudan, Congo DRC, Ethiopia, Somalia and I don’t see comparisons to Kenya. Tanzania has one unique encouraging feature though. In as much as it has some dominance by one party, it is stable and promises a stable future. If it can only reform and kill the curse of many African states like corruption and skewed resource allocation, it would be fine. Unlike Kenya tribalism is not the main definition of getting top leadership. Unlike Kenya your pockets hardly defines you getting the top job in politics in that country. But that is the far it goes, when you want to see more vibrancy in other realms of democracy look at Kenya.

In Kenya we have learnt the hard way not to trust anyone and I see why there is so much skepticism about leadership in Kenya.  The worries about leadership are warranted. Leadership defines so much for any organization. It’s the character of the leadership that set the pace of so much in a nation. Troubling though is that our nation has very many desirous people to be leaders but few cares the character and quality of leadership offered when opportunities arise. That is why we are perpetually a nation of whiners especially on the behavior of a big number of leaders.