President Uhuru Kenyatta (right) with his deputy William Ruto during the Jubilee Party National delegates where he was endorsed as the Presidential Candidate for the August 2017 General Elections at the Bomas of Kenya, Nairobi.
Kenya has experienced several successions with the passing of the torch: from Kenyatta I to Moi; Moi to Kibaki and from Kibaki to Kenyatta II. In a sense the nation has had moments of transition in the past but only of limited variety.