Kenya leads Africa, and the world, in a few things. Lately in hot competition with Ethiopia, it is a global long distance-running powerhouse. It’s the largest exporter of cut flowers to the European Union, and the world’s third largest exporter of flowers (or fourth, depending on who is counting). Safaricom (at least for a long while) was by far Africa’s most innovative mobile phone company.
Politics, especially electoral politics, is a staple food in many countries. In Kenya, however, it has been elevated to the food of the gods. Now, the country sounds like it has a million election experts. There is a national addiction. More than a year since the August 2022 election, on many days it feels like the ballot was only cast last week. The media can’t let it go. Kenyans on social media can’t help circling back, looking at what transpired in “new light” and in the context of fresh revelations about what “happened behind the scenes.”
