William Ruto vs Gen Z: The Fight is Only Just Beginning After Raila Odinga Chokes At the AU
History has an unforgiving sense of irony. Sometimes it gifts us with poetic justice so sharp it could slice through the thickest political armour. Take for instance Raila Odinga's premature ejaculation at the African Union Commission. Erstwhile, Baba had inexplicably struck a deal with a beleaguered William Ruto, a man clearly on his way out, who had in fact secured safe passage for his family to America, and was preparing to make his final stand as irate youths effortlessly swept through Parliament. Their next destination was State House. But this was not to be as Raila Odinga came swooping to save the day and Ruto's star-crossed regime, a move built on the backs of outrightly murdered and state-abducted youths. And they have not forgotten. Kenya’s Generation Z, the very children once brutalised by tear gas under the order of one William Ruto, have come of age—not as silent victims this time, but as defiant revolutionaries. This is the same cohort born in the firestorm of Ken...