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Why Raila Odinga's death was not a single doom

President William Ruto viewing the body of the late Prime Minister Raila Odinga.[PCS]

In William Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, Octavius Caesar makes an emotive proclamation on the of death by suicide of his erstwhile triumvir, Mark Antony.

The context in which the immortal declaration was made is as fascinating as it was prophetic. Octavius had been Julius Caesar’s grand nephew and adopted heir while Antony had been his trusted general, friend and cousin.

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