26 August 2010, Nairobi — At about 10 o'clock Friday morning, Kenya will change forever. President Mwai Kibaki will receive, read and sign the legal instruments, proclaiming the new Constitution into law.

It will be the culmination of 20 years of a stop-and-go review process, which started in the late 1980s and gathered steam in the early 1990s. The signing will take place in a big ceremony at the historic Uhuru Park in central Nairobi.