Listening to President William Ruto criticising his former deputy, although he didn't call him by name the other day, reminded me of a discussion I had had with some colleagues in our editorial office at the Platform Magazine.

We were trying to identify a Kenyan narcissist and why such is a threat to our democracy as flawed as it is.

Their personalities are constructed on projecting an image entirely disconnected from reality.

Theirs is a make-believe world.