Uhuru Kenyatta: The voice of my father

My father President Jomo Kenyatta once said: “Unity can not be taken for granted.”

We will be celebrating this year’s Madaraka Day in the shadow of national elections. As is usual and perhaps expected and most certainly welcome, elections are a time for robust discourse, and a pitting of opposing worldviews and ideologies. Unfortunately, in the past, election campaigns and their aftermath have brought out some of the worst times in the Republic of Kenya’s relatively short existence and have set Kenyan against Kenyan of differing tribes, faiths and backgrounds.