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The Deputy President’s political house is veritably on a self-willed fire

There is an African saying that as a man dances so are the drums beaten for him. Deputy President William Ruto is dancing the fire dance.

The drumbeaters are in their element, for him. To paraphrase Chinua Achebe, the drums are beating. The flutes are singing.

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