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Mutuma Mathiu

Nairobi
As seen in: CNN, Daily Nation, Nairobi News, AllAfrica, Zawya, The East African, The Citizen (Tanzania), Constellation Research, HT Syndication, ADX Africa Digital Exchange
Consultant – Strat Comms @ Steward Africa | Consulting Author - Biographies and Non-Fiction| Publisher, ADX.co.ke
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Don’t scapegoat helpless hawkers Original

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By Mutuma Mathiu
| Daily Nation Verified
Kenyans should not take a village perspective on things. I have seen predictions that by 2050 – in a mere 24 years – Nairobi will be one of the largest cities in Africa, with a population many times what it is today, mainly by sprawling into nearby towns and absorbing population from elsewhere, including other countries. And you know why I believe that?
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Kasongian debacle: Ruto reels at the limits of an old power logic

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By Mutuma Mathiu
| ADX Africa Digital Exchange
President William Ruto is a man in political trouble. This weekend, he struck his classic campaign pose, eyes closed, head bowed in ‘humility’, his hands raised in supplication, deep in prayer at Rhema Festival in Nairobi’s Uhuru Park. During the last campaigns, the doors of his Karen residence had been polished smooth by the long coat-tails of village pastors who flocked in to interact with a Deputy President, get some good food, a fat envelope and an earful of promises.
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Upgrading Kenya’s politics as a national project

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By Mutuma Mathiu
| ADX Africa Digital Exchange
Calling a presidency “obsolete software” is a diagnosis, not condemnation. Software gets patched, upgraded. The question is whether President William Ruto, widely regarded as tactically gifted, and by his own admission a lifelong political “learner”, is capable of installing an upgrade rather than issuing another cosmetic release,  whether he can do it in time to save his regime and whether Kenya isn’t better off without him altogether.
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