Kenya’s political theatrics now akin to North Korea’s
President Uhuru Kenyatta shakes hands with Deputy President William Ruto at AIC Milimani Church in Nairobi on January 26, 2020. There seems to be a rift between the two. PHOTO | EVANS HABIL | NMG
Kenya is going through one of its strangest political phases and biggest contradictions for years. While, warts and all, it’s still far more free country than it was just two decades ago, in mainstream media it speaks like the dictatorship it was in the 1980s.
At that time, like in many parts of Africa, journalists couldn’t report freely on many “sensitive” issues, and didn’t have access to information the way they do today. Those who wanted to make sense of political goings-on were reduced to some kind of Kreminology or Sovietology.
