Of bovine politics, ill spirits and online trawls crawling under Prezzo Ruto's collar

 

President William Ruto, Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja and Majority Leader Kimani Ichungwa during a Mass at Soweto Catholic Church, Embakasi East, Nairobi County on November 17, 2024. [PCS]

I have no idea what Prezzo Bill Ruto was doing in Taita Taveta—save for his eloquent lamentation that some unnamed Kenyans are so critical of him and his administration—he even invented an idiom for this ilk. He called it “pepo chafu ya upingamizi.”

That’s a strange formulation applying spirituality to political discourse, but it echoes the early days of...