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Folly of idolising the buffon in African politics
Mbeki is a man of the mind, with an advanced degree in economics, a party ideologue and thinker, the other is basically illiterate, the proud graduate of a primary school. One is an ascetic monogamist, the other is an earthy, footloose sexual vagabond with four wives to his name and 18 children to his loins' credit. He was tried for raping a girl young enough to be his daughter and acquitted. He explained that in his culture, it is criminal to leave a woman in a state of arousal.
Kenyan politics as a process of laundering thieves and murderers
Imagine for a moment that you are, heaven forbid, Al Capone, Meyer Lanskey or their local Mungiki mafia equivalent. You are making money lots of money, all of it in cash and in small bills from rackets such as enslaving women and renting them out to perverts or using children in sweat shops, or extorting money from shopkeepers by breaking their knees or matatu owners by chopping off the heads of their drivers -- To protect yourself, you 'Join Politics.'