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Dr Barrack Muluka, strategic communications advisor.

Africa's independence anniversaries remind us of betrayed dreams. They speak of official let-down and citizens' suspended hopes. This Tuesday, Kenyans mark the 60th Jamhuri.

It has been six long decades of lofty official promises and sugar-coated success stories by those in power. More practically, it has been a season of politics of betrayal, unashamed tribalism in government, assassinations, theft deodorized as corruption, abuse of office, and misrule disguised as self-determination.

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