In Africa, Presidents are known to cling to power with an iron fist. And former Zimbabwe President, the late Robert Mugabe, who became the world’s oldest president before his ouster in 2017, is a classical example.
They are the Methuselah or, at best, dinosaurs in African leadership and governance. A similar script resonates in some of the Kenyan sports federations, where some officials came into office long before Jehova Wanyonyi became ‘God’ and then the god died.