We must bring back character in politics for Kenya to prosper

Ballot boxes outside Ruaraka tallying centre on August 11, 2022. [Kelly Ayodi, Standard]

Three generations ago, we embarked on what American scholars would call an experiment in self-government. We erected a republic and its attendant institutions. But just how successful is that experiment?

That we are not doing as good as we should, is evidenced in our public discourse in the last ten years. At one point we called for secession. We said what we call Kenya as presently constituted is a cruel marriage worthy of nothing but dissolution. What family law practitioners call divorce.