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Political debates in Kenya: are they useful or empty media spectacles?

Presidential debate at Catholic University, 2017. [Boniface Okendo, Standard] 

It is a few months before the general election. That means it is time for the theatrical, skeleton-revealing spectacle also known as the political debate.

Televised political debates in Kenya started in 2013 and have had a chequered history.

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