This week I write with a heavy heart. I am reminded of a book I read in school 45 years ago: “Cry, the Beloved Country” by Alan Paton. The book depicted, among other themes, the moral decadence that had gripped the South African society in the 1940s because of losing their culture to urbanisation and economic pressure on traditional land holdings.
Over the last one month, we have woken up literary every morning to the news of a new corruption scandal in Kenya. In fact, the practice has become so commonplace and brazen that we should not give it the dignity of calling it corruption because it is outright theft.
