Politics is not a preserve of politicians

Like the menu in a specialty restaurant, our print and electronic media don’t disappoint with the leading news of the day. It will always be some incendiary remarks by a functionary of political party A, directed at the opposing party B. The following day it is party B going hammer and tongs at party A.

As Winston Churchill said, in war you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times; meaning that the following day’s news will be a continuation of the same political belligerence. Clearly, Kenya does not seem to have learned much from the 2007/8 post-election violence.