When this column was first written nine years ago, the country had just discovered and was on the cusp of exploiting its oil resources. The key questions that became the remit of weekly discourse related to the negative impacts of the extractive sector and the requisite governance responses that the Kenyan government needed to put in place.
Since then, the issues that this column has dealt with have moved beyond extractives to key governance issues and their implications for the sustainable development of the country.