Nairobi, Aug. 5 -- Last Thursday evening, in a prime-time address, the President announced that Kenya will begin crafting Vision 2060. A national conversation opens on August 12, aiming at a development charter to carry us a generation forward.

It was announced with an honesty worth noting: Vision 2030, still has four years to run, and by the President's own admission, many of its ambitions remain unattained. Sit with that arithmetic. We have started imagining the next horizon before arriving at the last one.

Our founders' forum did not receive the news gently. One member argued that the only vision we need right now is the restoration of trust in public institutions; that as things stand, we would struggle to trust even a Vision 2027....