As woes pile up, don't forget that Kenya's fate lies in our hands

Gen-Z protests in Kakamega on July 2, 2024. [File, Standard]

That Kenya has been through some pretty difficult political moments cannot be gainsaid. You would think it's us that prophet Isaiah had in mind when he said, "And confusion shall reign in their midst."

However, the unity of purpose that has emerged between the poor and the middle class, as Eric Hoffer predicts in his book, is to date the finest political gift to this country. It has effectively extinguished the many foreign trips that had become a source of worry, instead of hope, to many Kenyans. The US trip and the Finance Bill will be remembered for how they made the country snap into wakefulness. It took an insolent government spokesman who rained insults on a citizen for questioning the logic of flying private while we have the national carrier.