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Handshake has lasting economic consequences

President Uhuru Kenyatta and former Prime Minister Raila Odinga at the Kisumu International Airport on December 13, 2018.

The Kenyan political landscape is so predictable nowadays. It’s looking more like a mathematical formula. Even the political and emotional violence that preceded the ‘handshake’ seems not to have been that random after all, it was part of a greater scheme of things. 

It’s not just the political contestants who have benefited; lexicologists now have new political terms like ‘errand boy’, terms that were popular during the Kanu era. Remember “money has been poured to finish me,”   “eating ugali”? I know a lot about Kanu because I had to become a member to get my national ID.

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