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Kenyans enjoy more freedoms and rights than elsewhere in Africa

President William Ruto engages on X space at State House, Nairobi. [PCS]

It has become de rigueur for Kenyans to speak disparagingly about their country; to attribute every conceivable ill to the leadership summed up in the pithy phrase, "we don't have a country."

A stranger would be forgiven for thinking that life has become, as English philosopher Thomas Hobbes described in his book Leviathan, "without government, solitary, nasty, brutish and short."

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