Ghost of colonial coalitions haunts Kenya decades later

The buzzword is coalitions.

Strange bedfellows are coming together to capture power. And as Kenyans are taken through the circus of cobbling up outfits whose agreements are never made public, we travel back in time and trace the origin of coalitions.

The first credible coalition in the country, according to Prof Macharia Munene, was made by “rowdy" settlers in 1907 to put pressure on the government to provide...