Kenya’s first liberation was from the injustice of colonial rule. Its second was from the one-party rule of President Daniel arap Moi. Now some Kenyans are longing for a third liberation: from the dynasties that have dominated the country’s politics since independence.
For many ordinary citizens, the country’s malaise is the result of a crisis in the leadership of a political class with roots in the independence struggle, whose members have cycled through every possible combination of alliances over the years in the search for power.
