Kenya in recent years has proven to be a democracy. Its political class, not always prone to candour and honesty, has experienced and is still experiencing the independence of the judiciary, and citizens are learning to compare their supposed freedom with the privileges of the ruling class.
Not only that, but certain distortions of the outsized ego of those who think they have the right face to administer the 'res publica', similar to what we have always been used to seeing in Italy (at least since Totò's 'vota Antonio La Trippa') have also arrived desolately here.
On social and some media outlets, for instance, there is controversy these days from many Kenyans and almost all environmental and civil society associations about how candidates in the recent elections defaced landscapes, roads, buildings and even public facilities with their election posters stuck everywhere.
"There are many politicians who still look down on Kenyans from election posters stuck on walls, electricity poles and footbridges, long after the elections have ended.

'From big cities to rural hamlets, posters are put up on shops, property gates, roads, streets and even trees,' writes journalist Mactilda Mbenywe in the Standard's columns, 'The litter of election posters becomes an environmental menace.
In 2013, the race for comfortable seats in parliament did not even spare sacred trees, the great souls of African nature. The historic baobab tree on the Malindi seafront was daubed with yellow inscriptions praising a coastal party, those on the road to Mombasa were filled with the faces and names of those who disrespectfully demanded a very 'unclean' vote.

Since 2011, a law has been in place requiring candidates to deposit a sum of money, refundable after the removal of posters following an election. How many have done this? How many will be prosecuted?
Patrick Odhiambo, of Ecology Without Borders, said that election posters end up in open spaces and in landfills because Kenya does not have a proper recycling mechanism to handle the waste.

A breath of optimism came from the newly elected Governor of Nairobi Johnson Sakaja who, with other elected politicians, senators deputies and county councillors, joined the residents of Kilimani district to clean up the election rubbish under the auspices of the Kilimani Project Foundation and Amnesty International Kenya.

In Malindi, on the other hand, the havoc has been wrought, and has not yet been cleared, by the same workers hired by the electoral commission who saw fit to paste the electoral lists of the centre constituency on the benches of the small gardens and on the small temple that protects the monument to the folk heroine Mekatilili Wa Menza. The first woman to fight so that one day Kenya could have democracy.