Central Province – President Kenyatta s home area – is now the swing region ahead of next year s elections, In ever greater numbers, presidential contenders are trooping to Central Kenya in search of grassroots supporters as well as endorsements from the Mount Kenya oligarchs.
By Nairobian Editor | 2 months ago
Nairobi’s upmarket Kileleshwa suburb has its name fleshed from Leleshwa, a Maasai word for a tree dominant in Naivasha.
Leleshwa is Kenya’s first home spun commercial wine brand. The vineyards from where Leleshwa is made are in Naivasha’s Morendat Farm. It is a 40-hectare affair that began in 1993 when billionaire businessman Pius Ngugi decided to venture into wine making. Morendat Farm is part of Ngugi’s Kenya Nut Company stable. Just so you know, Kenya Nut Company is Kenya’s biggest nut export in a market where there are only less than 300 nut players in the world. Kenya Nut Company that has cornered 10 percent of the world’s nut market is in the top five best nut concerns globally. Out of Africa is Kenya Nut’s flagship export from nuts grown in its 8,000 acre farm.
As President Joe Biden begins to get comfortable in the White House, there are those who might say that America, under a democratic system of government, has once again allowed the voice of her people to be heard, and that they have elected a new leader into office. Some might go so far as to say that the world’s most affluent democracy has once again proved that government of the people, by the people, for the people is alive and well.
But just below the surface, there are questions deserving of a deeper examination. One is how narrow the margins of victory were. For while it is true that President Biden won the highest number of votes in American electoral history, it is also true that President Trump won the second-highest number of votes in American electoral history; 10 million more people voted for President Trump in 2020 than did so in 2016. Mr Biden’s margin of victory in Georgia was 0.48 per cent, while that in Arizona was 0.63 per cent. Further, even as the Democrats b