QUESTIONS THAT OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS WON'T BE ABLE TO ANSWER.

OUR MOTHERS

           What is it about our nation that really makes us stand out? Is it our perennial and perniciously seasoned winning athletes? Or, Mpesa? Is it our creativity and innovative nature? Or affinity to embrace new technologies without a second thought?  For me, those are just but icings on the tips of icebergs. Methinks that our superiority is based on our hardworking nature, the way we arise before the sun, walking along the highways to work; sometimes, walking so long in search of work; without giving up, come the morning rains, the freezing morning cold, the midday scorching sun. We have a tendency to hustle even when employed. A side hustle is a new trend, the new dream of every Kenyan. Up the totem pole is a strong desire, a perpetual gusto of being billionaires, with high levels of risk-taking, even in the new areas; this, on its own, is a Leviathan trigger, a stimulus of economic growth; but my crystal balls indicates a daily nosedive in the underbelly of our very strongest character. The malice, contorted gluttony for any available public resources, the supply and demand curve absolution, autocratic economic subjugation, corruption, unconditional integration to the global market... and the list is endless. It begs the question, what should we really do to heal our nation? Yes, we have the greatest potential, the best coastline in eastern central Africa, the most literate country in Eastern Central Africa, the highest absorption rate of smartphones and new technologies, but with a single-digit Gross Domestic Product rate for the last five decades, an overstretched budget that leans on almost the same structure that was used four decades ago, and the highest corruption index in East African region.




Where is our consciousness as a nation? What is it that really drives us, apart from individualism and wealth maximization? Mzee Moi's Budget of 1978 summed up to K.sh 50 billion, Mr Kenyatta's budget goes to a high of K.sh 3 trillion in 2020, yet, the channels of raising the money, forty years down the line, almost the same. Liberalized foreign direct investment increasingly becoming the boxer-liners of our economic core, with foreign capital flows flat-feting the festering wounds of our economy with unfair treaties, and the number of research institutions being close to zero across the nation.

All Kenyans have a duty to uphold the sovereignty of our nation, and this can only be manifested by changing the mindsets of the future generations, embracing both formal and informal education; analogously embracing our diversity and the richness of the ethnocultural peculiarity. Let us take a leaf from Finland's economic History, South Korea's, USA's, and Britain's, and change our painstaking tendencies that are killing our future.