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Many have termed George Wajackoyah as a joke taken too far. But it’s that season in global geopolitics where some extreme jokes have been institutionalised.
In 2016, the mayor of London, one Boris Johnson, came with an idea that sounded like a joke; get the United Kingdom out of the European Union. It was preposterous because the British are as Europeans as Madagascar is African. That joke was voted for overwhelmingly in a process dubbed Brexit.
A few months later, the Americans made a similar strange call when they voted Donald Trump, a man so unfit the media classified his politics as entertainment. Can Wajackoyah pull the same stunt in Kenya and win the election? That is for fortune tellers to predict. I shall, however, look at the content of the so-called joke.
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