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Inspiring lessons from China as Kenya faces moment of rebirth

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A section of protesters along Moi Avenue, Nairobi during the anti-government protests on Monday, July 16, 2024. [Collins Kweyu, Standard]

Every epoch, family, community, civilisation, nation, and generation witnesses the birth of a man or woman imbued with divine wisdom and mission, or even near-mythical magnetism, to shoulder a revolutionary idea and reshape and reset a people or society's destiny.

Roman emperor and stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius, who reigned from 161AD to 180 AD, said thus of such people: "Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart."

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