The point this week is not to argue that Kenya is failing, but resist the easier assumption that every announcement is an achievement in itself....
The Nyanza tour describes a president moving faster and more visibly than the coalition trying to unseat him....
Kenyan opposition coalitions have a familiar failure mode: principals talk unity, egos get in the way, the coalition splinters closer to the election....
A functioning sports economy creates jobs for people who will never compete at the highest level of competition....
An economy does not distribute its gains equally simply because government announces an ambitious programme....
Kimani's appointment at the UN lands as part of a broader push by the Ruto administration to accumulate multilateral visibility....
Governments write policy for economies. They are elected by households. That is the gap the Ruto administration had four years to close....
The final measure is how much of what it promised has produced meaningful, sustainable and fairly distributed change....
Trade policy offers the Ruto's administration's strongest diplomatic case especially after the renewal of AGOA....
The failures remain deeply felt, and those unfinished promises may ultimately decide whether Kenyans give William Ruto another five years....