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The BBI promise and Kenya’s false dawns

ODM leader Raila Odinga and other leaders at the BBI rally in Kitui stadium, Kitui County, on February 1, 2020. [Dennis Kavisu]

“Those who cannot remember the past,” warned writer and philosopher George Santayana, “are condemned to repeat it.”

Taking cognisance of the wild frenzy and drama BBI mobilisation rallies have caused, and all that has happened in the last couple of weeks, this column takes a hard look at history this week in the hope that it will offer vital lessons to its readers.

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