STart WIth THe MAn IN THe MIrror

 “There can be only one permanent revolution — a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man.” - Tolstoy

The clamour for a better leadership in Kenya has never reached such a crescendo in the past. A people pushed to the edge of the cliff are now determined to stand up and say enough is enough. The tide has now turned on those who in the past have dictated to us who the right leaders are for us, who ought to exercise government on us and such like myopic lies that have been fed to us over and over again till they've almost become true to us.

Even as we match on towards cleaning our act at the top, hard questions are inevitable to us as individuals. What makes it so easy for us to accept the status quo? What makes it normal for us to condone abuse of public office without as much as raising a finger? What ails us at personal level and translates to the choices we make at national level.  I sought to explore the man in the mirror hoping I could unearth answers that might finally lead to a change in the individual first…

I'm Gonna Make A Change, For Once In My Life, It's Gonna Feel Real Good, Gonna Make A Difference, Gonna Make It Right . . .

We’ve all been in positions of leadership at some point in our live. How we handled ‘little’ power has a great bearing on how we would be able to manage real power when it is entrusted upon us. Whether it’s

FAke BY THe DOzen

I’m not quite sure whether other citizens say the same about their countries but we Kenyans are of a peculiar nature. We complain about things within our powers to change and yet when we are faced with an opportunity to set matters right, we forget we ever complained and maintain the status quo.  

We castigate others on how they run things but do the same or even worse when given the opportunity to act. We condone poor service

We are peculiar in the kind of relationships we maintain. We chose to remain in abusive relationships for reasons that are beneficial to everyone else but us. We chose to do things for the society’s sake, we chose to do stuff for ‘our

+254: A CALL TO ACTION

Every 5 year cycle, politicians outdo each other to see who gets to ruin run Kenyans for the next five years. For 49 years without fail, we have entrenched them and validated their desire to disenfranchise us of our pursuit of happiness time and again. 

For once the good Lord of all creations has smiled upon us with a candidate cut from a finer cloth, far above tribal hegemonies and the culture of ‘let’s eat and eat some more still’. Self made, genuine to a fault, a track record to die for and a strong proponent of the people’s potential… but wait a minute…