Will the Handshake, Mega Projects and Uhuru’s Visits to Kisumu Translate Into Raila Odinga’s Presidency in 2022?

While millions of Kenyans have been pannel-beaten into viewing the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) as the solution to the country’s political and economic crisis, residents of Kisumu have a very different perspective to the Raila-Uhuru led strategy. For the vast majority of “Lake Victorians” and the wider Luo Nyanza constituency, BBI project is intertwined with massive development projects. For them, BBI is the ultimate signal that the decades-old political and economic marginalization of Nyanza province since flag independence is finally coming to an end. Indeed, when President Uhuru Kenyatta paid…