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Angry youth: When hope is vested in tribal flag-bearers

By William Wallis

Published: October 22 2008 10:45 | Last updated: October 22 2008 10:45

At the end of a long and pot-holed road 265km from Nairobi, the western city of Kisumu is still smouldering with resentment at the year’s events.

Fabled as the ethnic support base of Raila Odinga, and before that his late father the socialist Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, briefly Kenya’s vice president, Kisumu is geographically removed from Kenya’s centre. There is also a palpable sense that it has been disconnected politically and economically.

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