The handshake and its unintended consequences

Consequences that have attended much acclaimed handshake President Uhuru Kenyatta and Opposition leader Raila Odinga shake hands at Harambee House [photo courtesy]

For the entire period of independent Kenya’s elective politics, Henry Cate VII’s dirge; ‘the problem with political jokes is that they get elected’ has been kept alive. Mournfully, the political jokes have held this country captive and plan to propagate that servitude beyond 2022.