If you’ve read ‘The Prince’ by Niccolo Machiavelli, you’ll quickly recognize what was advocated in the book in practice in Kenya. Machiavellianism is very alive here.
The Dark Triad is alive and well : Machiavellian-ism, narcissism and psychopathy. But if you think about it, the only place where this does not exist is anywhere there are no humans.
But in our case the dark triad personality disorders were installed for a more sinister purpose. By who you may ask. Follow the money.
Machiavellianism: The employment of cunning and duplicity in statecraft or in general conduct.
That is a perfect description of what we call “ujanja”.