Soft spoken, silver haired and stocky, Kofi Annan arrived in Kenya on January 22, 2018 against the backdrop of failed mediation efforts to forestall runway violence then swallowing the country.
A number of sitting and former African presidents had been here, done that and left without getting former President Mwai Kibaki and Opposition leader Raila Odinga to budge on their diametric hard line positions regarding the outcome of the 2007 presidential election.