Politics is rarely located in isolated events and is instead revealed in patterns that accumulate over time and begin to suggest a method....
Voters are not merely looking for a candidate who can defeat Ruto, but for a leader they can trust with what comes after....
At the 2027 election, Governors will be elected, and County Assemblies will be constituted after MCAs, elected in the same election, assume office....
The more Sifuna's support becomes personal rather than merely anti-Ruto, the harder it becomes to treat him as another bloc that can simply be negotiated into an alliance....
The register tells a more complicated story that matters because the phrase "Mt Kenya" itself is rarely as precise as the political conclusions drawn from it....
Ol Kalou will be remembered not simply because it elected an MP, but showing that by-elections have evolved into proxy political wars....
Kenya is not abandoning identity politics. Coalition-building, local political networks and ethnic mobilisation remain central features of presidential elections campaigns....
Markets require supply, and Kenya has no shortage when it comes to goons and political violence....
For many businesses, election politics is no longer an occasional disruption to economic life. It has become an integral part of it....
Unofficially, Thursday's Ol Kalou by-election is a contest between three political centres of gravity angling to control Mt Kenya politics....