Echo from past nearly spoilt Uhuru address

Usually, the highlight of national celebrations is the president’s speech. It was the same in the last Madaraka Day two weeks ago, that was held against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In substance, President Uhuru Kenyatta’s speech was one of the most persuasive I have heard in recent times. In it, he gave a historical chronology of how the founders of the nation prepared and imbued the young nation with hope and resilience for the uncertain future, now that matters were in their own hands. The president referred to several documents, including the anthropological monograph authored by Jomo Kenyatta, the founding president, Facing Mount Kenya, and Not yet Uhuru by Jaramogi Oginga Odinga.