Not yet uhuru: 60 years after independence, Kenya has not matured

Someone born when Kenya became independent is now 60 years old - a mature, wizened, elderly individual. If employed, whether in the private or public sector, this individual has about dispensed their quota of formal nation building and is teetering on the brink of retirement. The same cannot be said about our country that came to being at the same time, with the coming of its independence, though. It seems stuck in adolescence and nowhere near maturity.

For some reason, we have been unable to shake off some challenges that should ideally afflict nations at a much younger stage, trying to figure themselves out. For starters, and embarrassingly so, lately we do not seem able to properly manage supply of electricity that powers everything, after all these years. Every so often, and particularly in the last few months, we are suddenly plunged into darkness, cutting off critical services.