Kenyan presidential elections have always been contentious - a legacy of our history dictatorship. Just months before the 1997 elections, politically instigated violence killed over 100 people and displaced an estimated 100,000. Kenya has always been a violent country, one silently at war with itself. What prevails in Kenya now, what has always prevailed, is not peace but rather an uneasy calm - a ceasefire of sorts. But it won’t last, nor be translated into a deeper peace unless the country has the courage to fix its frayed national fabric.

Source: The Star July 25, 2020 02:02 UTC