As the BBI bill makes its way seemingly inexorably through Parliament and towards a referendum, and elections continue to generate violence, the parallels with the past its proponents claims to want to address are disturbing. Now this is not what it might sound like: Blaming the past or the colonialists for our current predicament. It is an indictment of the current generation that is following in their footsteps, entrenching rather than overthrowing the system. If we truly want to fix Kenya’s problem, we need to examine the systems and patterns of thought that produce it. We need to get away from short-term, knee-jerk reactions and “solutionism” and think through the rules, attitudes and incentives pervading the system.

Source: The Star March 14, 2021 05:30 UTC