Not yet uhuru as Kenyans hungry, still angry and lost 57 years on

Nurses protest over poor working conditions. [File, Standard]

Fifty-seven years after independence, there is hardly anything to smile about for a majority of Kenyans whose lives have taken a beating in the course of 2020.

A rampaging virus that has left destruction in its wake, a fumbling government and an opportunist opposition have all combined to prove the steepest of obstacles standing between Kenyans and their aspirations of a better life.