| My year | Kamau Mwangi | Nyeri political culture shock

Central Kenya had never witnessed anything like it. Not even the struggle for multiparty democracy. We are talking about large-scale demonstrations that not only paralysed businesses but also ruined lives, some of them permanently. Kamau Mwangi takes a look at the events of this year in Nyeri, which came with an unusual attack on Journalists, and the setting of a new world record for anyone to ever hug a tree.