Abracadabra! A glorious 2024

New Year

There are about 15 of these ‘small-big’ things to wish for in 2024.

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You are a small man or woman on the outskirts of Nairobi. You realise nobody will listen to you if you ask for big reforms and policies to make 2024 a better year than 2023.

Some things are too contentious and difficult. For example, asking for a 50 per cent cut in public spending (or, indeed, increasing taxes by high margins); cutting corruption by 75 per cent and arresting and sacking all crooked officials; making Kenya Airways profitable again within a year; and fixing all rutted roads in the country.