Calculating Kibaki knew which side of the political bread was buttered

Mwai Kibaki had homes in Muthaiga and Othaya. The two ‘homes’ symbolise the socio-political complexity of a man who became the ‘Third President’. Kibaki enjoyed his own mystery partly because it was self-protective, and baffled pundits who make livelihoods interpreting others. Intellectuals marveled at his big thoughts, ability to argue and almost to make sense, even when he was wrong or backing the wrong tree.