This is a momentous time in Kenya's history?

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Truly speaking, the world is replete with nations, societies and communities that have undergone several critical moments of disruption that have changed their trajectory for worse or for good. Many of these overwhelming events are uncontrollable and while some creep in slowly - like the fight for independence - others set in like lightning, just like the recent hurricanes in Puerto Rico and Florida.

Kenya as a nation has had its fair share of turning points, right from the declaration of independence in 1963, which ended the era of colonialism and ushered in self-rule, to the attempted coup of 1982, the struggle for multi-party democracy and the current stalemate.