Azimio la Umoja's mixed messaging puts a damper on its rich manifesto

Raila Odinga's Azimio team plans a mega meeting with candidates in a bid to reduce tensions. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

It is typical of our wonderfully short Kenyan attention span that the Azimio la Umoja One Kenya Coalition manifesto for Election 2022 and beyond is already yesterday’s news. 

We prefer the daily drama of our news, now firmly established as a “truth vs facts” competition between the talking heads we are bombarded with by our traditional media and the sound-bites and click-bait that is our social media. 

We are clearly an American majority, with little time for the British tradition where politicians explain how they shall “manifest” a difference (hence, manifesto).