WANJAWA: Beyond the rot lies the Kenya we dare to imagine

Kenya stands at a familiar and yet deeply unsettling crossroads. In the Kenya we live in today, the headlines are grimly familiar: graft scandals, arbitrary police killings, teachers on strike, jobless graduates, doctors pleading for basic tools, transport chaos, and a leadership class that often appears detached from the lives of ordinary citizens. The rot is deep.

Corruption no longer shocks us; it defines us. Misrule isn’t accidental — it’s a system. Injustice doesn’t slip through the cracks — it is designed into the very cracks.