Nairobi, March 29 -- Humanity appears to be embracing violence with vigour in 2023, with Kenya keen to be at the party.

But as the opposition organises protests and the ex-President's farm burns, what does it say about all our societies that we have lived to the 21st Century, into a digital and information revolution, face annihilation from whichever destroys us first between climate change and artificial intelligence, and yet our top form of dialogue is now emerging as violence?

Should we begin to conclude that humanity is a failed project? Or is it just the nation-state that is failing?

For sure, the problem isn't only Kenya's. Russia is killing civilians on a near-daily basis and running talk shows saying Ukrainian children who don'...