When Daniel arap Moi succeeded Kenyatta in 1978, he adopted a political philosophy he called Nyayo, meaning footsteps in Swahili. He would follow in Kenyatta's footsteps, he said. He promised peace, love and unity.
In the first years of his presidency, Moi genuinely seemed different from his predecessor. He was accessible, he released political prisoners, he built more schools than anyone before him. The transformation into the authoritarian who would crush the 1982 coup, ban opposition parties and torture political prisoners happened gradually, and then all at once.
The footsteps he followed were ultimately darker than anyone initially feared.