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The Handshake and its aftermath on Jubilee

President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga. [Photo, Standard]

Politics is an engagement whose endgame, for participants, is to ascend to the throne of leadership. The pathway to the top is littered with broken dreams, unfulfilled promises and shifting alliances. If this life of artifice is a befitting description of a politician, then Kenyans are the acme of political perfection.

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