Night-time is the wrong time, because that’s when the killers and rapists come out to play

Night-time in Kenya has always been a time of great terror. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

Two years ago, an elderly Kenyan woman, back home from a visit to her children and grandchildren living in a European country, told eager relatives and friends her impressions of that first-time visit.

I was curious to hear what she would say because, being neither an academic, politician nor businessperson, she would see things through a prism not clouded by ideology.