Cry my beloved Country Kenya

This country is bleeding. Everything feels shattered and blank; as a nation, we have lost the plot. You see tens of thousands of graduates with no work and no job prospects in the foreseeable future. Patients are abandoned in the hospitals because of government’s failure to negotiate with nurses and doctors over pay dispute. An attempt to understand what has gone wrong gets us to our brand of politics – petty, silly, irresponsible, irrational and above all gravely ugly.

As a consequence of wretched lives and hopelessness, there is a growing cynicism about politics and politicians. Kenyans are clearly disgusted with our brand of politics where it’s characterized by a frightening addiction to money and power. Kenyans are disgusted with those in charge of the republic who so often boast about money and boisterously use it to hide the inadequacy of their leadership credentials. Kenyans are appalled that their society is being corrupted by a political culture that defines political discourse in terms of one’s ability to do fraud and get away with it, mocking the law enforcement agencies and the judiciary.