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Mid-January this year, I had breakfast with former President Mwai Kibaki’s elder son Jimmy. We were to talk about politics of the day and the stand of a political outfit he had joined which goes by the name The Young Democrats (TND).
But - as you would expect - we could not avoid talking about his dad, Emilio Stanley Mwai wa Kibaki. I asked him how it was to be born and brought up by a father who was a great public figure. Jimmy was born in 1964 when his father was assistant minister, later full Cabinet minister, vice president and president.
He told me that much as his father was all that, at home he was like any other father – indeed in the conversation Jimmy used the word dad not father. “At home dad was dad not holder of any public title”, he told me. He gave me an example when one evening he visited his dad at State House accompanied by his (Jimmy) young son.
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