How Kipchoge exploits mirrors a Kenya rising and taking it place on the globe

Kenya is known mostly for two things around the world: Fast runners and the spirit of hakuna matata. This, it has been noted, is a strange combination. After all, how can we be so fast in one area of life and so slow, even laidback in another? If you watched Eliud Kipchoge’s awe-inspiring race, and then came to Nairobi you would be appalled by our not so fast pace of life.

Here we don’t race, and it seems like no one is in a real rush. We sit in traffic jams waiting for the lights to change or for the police to “pull our lane” as they say, but people rarely honk or complain. We are calm and patient, long term thinkers rather than racers.