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Kenyan flag hoisting during independence at Uhuru Gardens on December 12, 1963. [File, Standard]

Happy Madaraka Day, all. First celebrated on 1 June 1963, the date Kenyans took back internal self-rule from British colonialism, the day finds most significance in 2024 by asking the question how truly free are we all?

Released in March, the 2023/2024 United Nations Human Development Report informs us that for the first time in 20 years, inequalities are expanding again for many across the world. We have had the highest number of mass conflicts and internally displaced populations since the end of the second world war in 1945.