By
Arthur Agwuncha Nwankwo
The recent nullification by the Kenyan Supreme Court of the August 8, 2017 presidential election inKenya has stolen the headlines in
both local and international media and has dominated conversations among so
many people and groups. While the courage and boldness of the Kenyan Supreme
Court is emulative and instructive, one impression that the international media
has tried to create is that this is not in the character of African politics-
for the judiciary to affect the political process in the manner the Kenyan
Supreme Court has done. I agree that this is the first time in Africa where the judiciary has stuck to its convictions
and fended off executive pressure and blackmail to deliver what has
reverberated across the globe as a historic feat.
The recent nullification by the Kenyan Supreme Court of the August 8, 2017 presidential election in
In real terms, it is in the character of Africans to expose
and distance themselves from evil and deceit. This character of justice and
equity is woven into the African psyche and consciousness but was significantly
eroded at the behest of alien values imposed on the continent by colonial
experience; an experience that has elevated the warped and otiose idea of
“political correctness” far and above moral conscience, truth, justice and
equity. I am, indeed, overjoyed that in my life time, Kenya, through its
Supreme Court has given me hope that African values of truth are still alive;
it has pointed the way forward for other African countries; it has shown that
our old values of speaking the truth at all times without really caring whose
ox is gored can be reinvented; and that being politically correct at the
expense of truth and justice is the perfect recipe for the death of nations.