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These ‘seven bearded sisters,’ as former Attorney General Charles Njonjo nicknamed them in 1981, were the most radical politicians Kenyan parliament had ever seen. Njonjo borrowed the term from British author, Anthony Sampson’s 1975 book, The Seven Sister: The Great Oil Companies and the World they Shaped, about oil cartels that fought governments.
Njonjo’s ‘bearded sisters’ marked the ‘golden age’ of radical politics, notes Prof Maurice Amutabi in his 2010 Retrospection Paper, as “they rejected the politics of patronage...they gave life to an otherwise dead parliament, and they paid a price for it” as the real back benchers in a one-party state.
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