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The law of the jungle and Kenya's politics

During my high school days, English literature was one of my favourite subjects.

My literature teacher, Mwebe Lwanga Simon Claude- a strange name considering people hardly use their baptismal name after their African surnames-was a Ugandan who had escaped from the treacherous hands of Uganda’s dictator, Idi Amin.

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