On July 26, 1963, the Kenyan flag was unveiled upon the dawn of the republic. Decades later, we have clung to the dark past where the graceful symbol of nationhood is used, or misused, by a few ...

L’état c’est mo”. The state is me (or I am the state) – attributed, dubiously, to the French King Louis XIV. In Kenya sometimes (‘jokingly’?) “L’état c’est Moi” during the 24-year rule of Daniel ...