Facing Mount Elgon: Why Raila’s salvation shall come from the hills

ODM leader Raila Odinga during a meeting with Mt. Kenya business community at Safari Park Hotel on September 28, 2021. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

In this continuing series, we continue to dispense unsolicited counsel to power barons staking a claim in next year’s presidential polls. We turn our attention to Agwambo, aka Tinga, aka Baba, aka “People’s President.” Raila Amollo Odinga.

Odinga, of course, is one of the most recognisable names in Kenyan politics, one that in the reductionist political lexicon in vogue, and promoted by pseudo-scholars allied with the Barrow movement, would be squarely placed under the “dynasty” label.