Why Kenyans should be afraid of 2022 elections

On a cool Sunday morning of June 28, 1914, the royal party drove down the main avenue of Sarajevo, Bosnia, in an open-topped car. Princip Gavrilo, a nationalist second-year student from Belgrade University, mingled with the dense crowds lining the royal route, armed with a revolver. He shot twice, instantly killing both the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife. This simple act triggered the First World War that killed over 20 million people.

The bloody conflagration forced American President Woodrow Wilson to convene the Paris Peace Conference to ‘make the world a better place to live’ and to forestall a ‘repeat of such mistakes’. This made a lot of sense to the war-weary combatants who were now yearning for a ceasefire. Only 10 years later, another war of a scale never seen before started. It ended with 60 million casualties.