For more than six decades, Kenya has asked its extraordinary diversity to pour itself into a single presidential contest — a structure that, by its nature, rewards ethnic arithmetic over national vision. A prominent Kenyan political voice now argues that a parliamentary system would redirect that energy: away from the capture of one indivisible office and toward the slower, more distributed work of winning seats, building coalitions, and competing on ideas. The argument is not that institutions alone can heal a divided polity, but that the wrong institutions can quietly teach a people the wron