Kenyans are treading carefully, but optimistically into an uncertain, yet potentially promising 2021. This writer is no exception. As we adjust to the "new/next normal" and "build back better", it doesn't hurt to observe the ebb and flow of Kenya's political sights and sounds, and what these portend for life, livelihoods and living. Let's skip the fiscus and debt today, and reflect on Kenya's year thus far.
On January 20, Inauguration Day for US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, an opinion piece in the New York Times exhorted America to learn from Kenya's own Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). As far as I know it was a plant, a fake generated by our political propaganda machine. A day or so earlier, the media was awash with translations of President Uhuru Kenyatta's wide ranging "State of the Vernacular Nation" Monday address on Kikuyu language radio stations.
