Glancing back fr m his book where Chinua Achebe begins talking about rain beating people who later dry their bodies elsewhere and you will be forgiven if you mistakenly assume he was writing about Kenya today. Indeed, the rain that started beating Africa when the Europeans discovered our continent actually beat Kenya until it was flooded. And there was indeed a time when Kenya was a land of great promise, hope and progress. There was a time, not too long ago, when every student finishing Form 6 in this country either had a university place or a job waiting for him or her. There was a time, not too long ago, when Eliot’s premium bread, one of the best in the world at the time, cost only Sh7 and stayed that way the whole year! There was a time, not too long ago, when a nurse who was reporting for duty at Kenyatta Hospital at 2pm would leave her house in Jericho at exactly 1:30pm sure that she would catch the 1:45pm No 7 bus at the nearest stage. There was a time, not too long ago, when the blue Sh20 note
Posted on: Sat, 12 Jul 2014 07:47:03 +0000
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