Talks present an opportunity to move our country forward

A damaged vehicle during Azimio protests along Outering road on March 30, 2023. [Stafford Ondego, Standard]

Kwame Nkuruma was certainly ahead of his time when he reminded newly independent African countries to "seek ye first the political kingdom, and all else shall be added unto you".

Politics as, as Daron Acemoglu points out in his book, 'Why nations fail' is the sceptre that is used to erect the institutions that eventually ensure that the greatest number of people can participate in governance of their affairs or if power and the economic largesse of the the country will be concentrated in the hands of the minority few at the expense of everyone else.