Moi the original bottom-up proponent, pioneer radico

The then Home Affairs Minister Daniel Moi seen addressing a crowd at Kabarnet when he distributed 2,000 bags of posho to the Tugen and Njemps tribesmen in Baringo in 1965. [File, Standard]

By the time he retired as Kenya’s second President in 2002, Daniel arap Moi had earned his stripes as the ultimate professor of politics. 

He had begun his career by striking the right chords, and was among the early pioneers of “listening to the ground”.