25/07/2026
By choosing not to vote, you don’t step outside the system, you simply give up your chance to influence it.
Every day, decisions made through politics shape our roads, hospitals, schools, public transport, security, and opportunities. Whether we participate or not, we all live with the outcomes.
Kenya invests billions of shillings in its electoral process, funded by taxpayers long before election day. The question is: if we all pay the cost, should we also claim our voice in the decision?
The Price of Standing Aside explores why civic participation matters and what is at stake when citizens disengage.
