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Kenya’s power homes: Where political careers are made or cut short

ODM party leader Raila Odinga at Capitol Hill Square with Governors from the Coastal region. [Emaanuel Wanson]

If gazebos of choice homes or locations of Kenya’s political hotshots could speak, they would unravel the country’s best kept political secrets of near misses, shattered dreams, sacrifices, accomplishments and so much more.

They have defied privacy tags - homes are supposedly private - to become unwitting theaters of political intrigues, schemes and plans.

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