Don’t take us seriously: We’re intellectual mercenaries

By G Odera Outa

The deliberately sarcastic title for this piece is my enduring recollection of writer John Mulaa’s penultimate constipation with Kenya’s ‘bull politics’ that characterised the landscape in much of 1980-2002. Its undying memorabilia is that infamous group of scholars who back then, would lie for just about anything, to gain access to the bounties of the Moi State.