Antonio Gramsci - Italian writer, politician and political theorist – could have been peering at Kenya, at the cusp of our Golden Jubilee, when he commented, “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” For we have seen several “morbid symptoms” in 2012: but first, some positives. Economic growth : for instance, in the third quarter of 2012, Kenya’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rose by 4.7 percent up from 4 percent from the same period last year...
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