Kenya's ten-year cycles of despair, abundance and political chicanery

The late Mwai Kibaki, then Narc Leader, arrives at Uhuru Park from London for a prayer meeting on December 14, 2002. [File, Standard]

Kenya has been through six 10-year phases since its Independence in 1963.

They can roughly be clustered as Getting the bearings (1963-72), Take-off that stalled (1973-82), Turbulent Nyayo decade (1983-92), Multi-party with multi-problems (1993-2002), Kibaki mixed bag of the good economy but lousy politics (2003-2012) and UhuRuto bromance that hit the rocks (2013-2022).