The past few weeks in Kenyan politics reads like a collection of African fables, riddles and folktales. Let’s begin with the ‘Great Migration’ that came quite early this year. Not of wildebeests, but of the horde of politicians that made a desperate exodus into the land of the ‘Independent Ticket’.
Their odyssey across the political savannah of rejection only indicated one thing: that party politics is merely a vehicle for the politician’s personal progress. But we knew that already.