Despite the veneer of progress, what does a historical critique of East Africa’s capitalist beacon reveal? Just four years after independence, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga published Not Yet Uhuru, a seminal political treatise of the new country. 60 years after independence, and 56 years after its publication, one might argue that nothing much has changed. As a nation, we find ourselves still grappling with the question of how Kenya became free with the greater portion of the arable land controlled by a handful of owners even as millions are squatters on their ancestral land. Author and journalist Parselelo Kantai asserts that … Continue reading Kenya at 60: Field notes from the neocolony, and the civilising politics of betterment in the Ruto Hustler era