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Walking the Right Rope: Will the Kisii coronation elevate Matiang'i?

United Opposition principals led by Jubilee Presidential Candidate Fred Matiang'i addresses Kisii residents. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

Ethnic coronations in Kenya closely resemble ethnic profiling. Accordingly, they empower and constrain at the same time. Dr Fred Matiang’i has been crowned the king of the Kisii, a role that has gone begging since the demise of Simeon Nyachae five years ago. Can he convert the Kisii crown into a platform for wider national engagement, or will it cage him into a tight ethnic enclosure?  

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