Anywhere in the world, the political story in Kenya today, as campaigns for the August election get heated, would be extremely strange. But good too.
An observer exclaimed: “What a country, what a democracy! A vice-president (William Ruto), over time brazenly insubordinates his boss (President Uhuru Kenyatta); disavows the official ruling (Jubilee) party, of which he’s a member and which brought him to office, and forms an opposing one (United Democratic Alliance); is alleged to have plotted against the president in cahoots with foreign forces (there’s no hard evidence of this), and all that happens is that he retains his position. Not to mention other trappings of office, government machinery, and a national platform to continue propagating his side of things. Eat your heart out, Don King. Only in Kenya!”
