The story is told of how a powerful politician in the Moi’s government held a daylong meeting with a cross section of Kikuyu leaders at a popular hotel in Thika. He was convinced he had finally won the stubborn Kikuyu community for President Daniel Moi. CATEGORISATIONThe Kikuyus broadly comprise Kikuyu-Nyeri; Kikuyu Murang’a; Kikuyu Kiambu and the Kikuyu Diaspora. It is this cunning that ensured their political leaders inherited massive political and material resources from the departing British colonialists. Therefore, to deal with the Kikuyu political equation, presidential candidates must be ready to deal with intellectual arrogance, a mad resilience, and a Brutus-like shrewdness all wrapped in one.

Source: The Star November 01, 2020 08:03 UTC