We called the 1990s the ‘Noughties’; what do we call the 2010s? Melissa Mohr, writing in the Christian Science Monitor, proposed two ideas that resonated with me: the period was the “Ten-sions” or the “One-ders” depending on which end of the stick you ended up with. On the good side, Jubilee truly had grand ambitions to transform the country through infrastructure, big projects like Galana Kulalu and free laptops for every child. The 2010s will be remembered as the period when we started learning to protect ourselves, especially against al-Shabaab. I think the Jubilee years will be remembered as the period when Kenyan democracy fractured.

Source: Daily Nation January 03, 2020 01:52 UTC