This editorial is a poignant and layered reflection — both elegy and political critique — written in the register of a nation wrestling with its colonial inheritance and identity, Kenya’s longest-running political mythology: “In the death of Raila Amollo Odinga, Kenya confronts not the end of a man, but the exhaustion of a dream — a dream that believed this colonial construct could be redeemed by will alone. Yet from the silence of his passing may rise a truer voice, one not borrowed from empire, but born of our own rivers, tongues, and memory.”— Stanley Gazemba, Editor