Will Highway break the over two decades football champions' jinx?

Highway Secondary School players celebrate after lifting the Nairobi Regional boys football title at Nairobi School, on July 12, 2025. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

From the end of the long-standing KANU rule to the peaceful handover of power by the late President Daniel Arap Moi to his successor, the late President Mwai Kibaki, marking the end of the former’s 24-year governance, 2002 was indeed a significant year in Kenyan history.  

The country was in campaigns mode. Politicians were not only crisscrossing the country in hunt for votes but also forming formidable alliances like the National Rainbow Coalition (NARC) that would eventually ascend to power.