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‘Kizungu mingi’ plunges Otiende into pit of party rejects

Few Kenyans can pronounce the word vicissitudes. Fewer know its meaning. Much fewer are aware that the “a” in “important” is silent. Otiende Amollo, the urbane mheshimiwa for Rarieda, belongs to the tiny fraction of linguists who know the above.

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