Chaos. Anarchy. That is what Kenya had degenerated into. And it is this environment that one of the world’s most celebrated freedom fighters Nelson Mandela walked into when he arrived in Nairobi.
The reception at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport could not have prepared him for the flames of liberation literary burning in the streets of Nairobi and other major towns. July 10, 1990, was to be historic in many ways.