Whatever happened to our new Constitution? For sure, there was a time, not so long ago, when it was a document people used to keep a copy of — reading it, referring to it — the foundation point for a new nation that would work better, rise, and be glorious.

Some two years back, at lunch with a fellow who would be described by many as a ‘Kenyan cowboy’ — being a member of the long-term white community that arrived in Kenya as colonial settlers — we got onto the subject of the strained relations between the black and the white citizens of Kenya.

It’s hard living in a lawless state. Take my journey to work two weeks back, when a man climbed into my car at a U-turn on Mombasa Road.

On Monday morning, there was a single tweet that finally brought me to tears, in an anguish that, as the now dead-at-Westgate Ghanian poet Kofi Awoonor once wrote, had seen the tears out of reach on something just too big.

Recent days have brought soul searching in America, as it views its progress, over 50-years, in achieving Martin Luther King’s dream of racial equality.

What does it truly mean for Kenya to be the fourth most corrupt country in the world? We all know the impact it has on our daily lives, the never ending graft.

Across human history, there has been a single lesson for all societies. Those that failed to grasp it suffered hugely, and inflicted massive pain on many. And yet, still, in 2013, it is the plague of our species that we so often cannot appreciate this single point, and live by it.

Are people born mad, or are they made mad by what they live through? It’s a debate that has raged in scientific circles for decades.

Ronald, not his real name, is just 27-years-old, but is already a senior doctor in the Kenyan system. Like most of his agemates, he works for nothing: instead paying the Government Sh400,000 a year to allow him practice as a surgeon at Kenyatta Hospital.

It is said too many times that Kenya has become a ‘dog eat dog’ culture. No-one says it of the majority of our neighbours — even in lands where civil wars have raged.

Once upon a time, in Western TV programming history, there was a comedy series that challenged a whole society’s perceptions, under the name of Monty Python, shocking us all with iconic shows such as a skit that looked at words and how we react to them emotionally — in a side-splitting scene on how to use ‘tinny’ words and ‘woody’ words.

There are times when one realizes just how much the Earth is not one planet. Thousands of years of civilization, trade and travel, decades of international treaties and of Governments that declare accord, and yet even our take on human rights remains completely divided.

Management schools are big business, but few have given attention to ‘what management is all about’ that Henley School of Management devoted to a ten-year study on how teams succeed.

Populism is an ugly thing, filled with disappointments.

Several weeks back, across the space of a few days, I sat before a row of videos declaring the vision and ideals of three different organisations. They were each inspiring, yet all with a common thread: celebrating the change-for-good brought by those who dare to be different and to innovate.