Uhuru’s idolisation of colonial era fight is political game plan

A recurrent theme in President Uhuru Kenyatta’s official speeches is Kenya’s suffering under the yoke of colonialism and the heroic role in liberating the country. The only other president that had as much to say about colonialism is Jomo Kenyatta, his father. Daniel Moi and Mwai Kibaki, the two presidents sandwiched by the Kenyattas, did not particularly have strong views on the subject of Kenya’s colonialism.

“Kenyatta Day,” now Mashujaa Day, was initially a defiant commemoration of the declaration of a state of emergency following which the senior Kenyatta and five others were jailed in Kapenguria, an occurrence that marked the beginning of the country’s war of independence.