The new year always brings out reflections on the year just lived, and our last year was certainly momentous, with swathes of us moving out of the capital, closing companies, leaving jobs, or starting new ones. But for many of us, life went into overdrive in the fourth quarter of last year. It was as if the world, and commerce, and every individual, was suddenly trying to do just some of the things, or even all of them, that had been set aside because we were having lockdowns.
Yet, was it more extreme because of our impending election — a last window before commerce goes into hiding again for the latest political saga? And, more importantly still, will it last? For, one of the most depressing things, for me, about pouring all my own energy and will and time into the development of Kenya, is, indeed, the impact of our political cycle.
