The song of Kenya today is a song of hope and you can hear it inside a miraculous green lung in the centre of chaotic, polluted but extremely lively Nairobi.
But you have to sit on the most special of the colourful benches of the Daima Garden in Uhuru Park, where plants grow that will save the centre of the metropolis from the unsustainability. 
That bench is painted as if it were wrapped in a typical African khanga, but next to it there is a portrait of a face, thanks to one of the many talented local artists who took part in the project.
That face belongs to Wangari Maathai, who in 1989 led an epic battle with his "green belts" movement to defend the park from the construction of a 60-storey skyscraper and won it. From there he began his ascent to the Nobel Peace Prize for "his contribution to the causes of sustainable development, democracy and peace", succeeding in giving, before dying prematurely, an environmental direction to his country which Kenya itself is now trying to defend from the economic claims of the United States and China, which stink of oil and plastic. 
Three days ago the ecological space inside the most famous park in the centre of the Kenyan capital celebrated a year of life, an opportunity to plant more trees and paint new seats.
With Wangari on the bench to incite everyone, like the coach of a national team called "Better Future".