How violent campaigns were nurtured 60 years ago

Youth engage police in running battles in Mathare 4A on Monday, March 27, 2023. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

When Winston Churchill visited Kenya, he prophetically described Nairobi as a hotbed where every man was a politician.

Although Churchill's pronouncements were made in October 1907 when he visited as an undersecretary, it is like he cast a spell over the country so much so that political competition has become a do-or-die, zero-sum game.