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Why Kenyans use sexual metaphors during campaigns

It is time that Kenyans stopped using the female body as a go-to symbol for political reasons. [Courtesy]

Not long ago, I argued in this column that election campaigns have become like a war period which makes this country a political battlefield of words and insults and where everything is weaponised. 

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