Nairobi, July 9 -- From time to time I am fortunate to be exposed to the highly thoughtful, well-informed and articulate WhatsApps of John Ngumi, and his most recent was one of his best. In it he asked for "an idea, a vision of Kenya, that will help get us out of our national malaise, will give us a national goal and purpose that can excite and focus us all".
With that he took a step back into history, starting with the immediate pre-Independence period, when the national goal and cry was "Uhuru", regularly interchanged with "Uhuru na Kenyatta". These reflected a fervent belief that with Independence, and with Jomo Kenyatta freed from imprisonment and leading his people, all would be well for the future.
In the immediate post-Independence...