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Experts- Presidential debates all about name-calling, have no effect on Kenyan voters

Kenyans will be trooping to polling stations on August 9. One of the political activities that attend and spice up the election cycle is the spectacle called presidential debates.

Some political commentators have called these debates the theatre of the absurd. Televised presidential debates in Kenya started in 2013 and have had a chequered history.

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