Summer of adulation in Kenya, slaps fly in France

French President Emmanuel Macron is protected by a security member after getting slapped by a member of the public during a visit in Tain-L'Hermitage, France on June 8, 2021. [BFMTV, Reuters]

It appears we’re becoming a shining example of presidential deference, what with recent episodes where ordinary citizens made extra-ordinary moves to seek an audience with Prezzo Uhuru.

There was that dare-devil who jumped onto the road in a place called, without any sense of irony, Lucky Summer, and stopped the presidential motorcade with nothing more than his body as shield. Prezzo rolled down the window and told the man tutaongea baadaye (let’s talk later) and waved him away.