Our attention is finite, yet we spend it everywhere but where it matters. This is not a moral failure. It is a structural one. Attention economics is the idea that in a world overflowing with information, human attention becomes the scarce resource. Whoever captures it, holds power. Over time, this has reshaped not just markets, but inner lives. What we notice. What we ignore. What we can tolerate. What we can no longer sit with. For a long time, people warned that television would rot our brains. In hindsight, television looks almost generous. A show required you to stay for forty minutes. A film asked for two hours. A detective story invited you to notice details, to remember names, to hold multiple threads in your mind at once. You watched. You followed. You waited. Listening to music meant staying long enough to learn lyrics. Reading meant sitting with confusion until meaning arrived. Writing a poem meant wrestling with language, not skimming it. Even boredom had a purpose—it ...
To understand Kenya’s modern state, one must begin with Jomo Kenyatta. A towering figure — both in memory and myth — Kenyatta remains one of Africa’s most enigmatic founding fathers. Celebrated as a nationalist hero and decried as an architect of elite rule, his story is both a mirror and blueprint of the nation he helped shape. But who was Jomo Kenyatta, really? Not the statue on Kenyatta Avenue. Not the name on currency or airports. But the man — Kamau wa Muigai — who lived through cultural dislocation, colonial violence, exile, and nation-making. What shaped his beliefs? What did he dream, fear, protect — and betray? This is not just his biography. It is an inquiry into the psychology, contradictions, and legacies of a man who became both a father of a nation and a guardian of a system. A Boy Without a Father, A Nation Without a Future Kenyatta was born as Kamau wa Ngengi around 1897 in Gatundu, in the heart of Kikuyu country. His father died early, and this absence would remain a ...