Government is not food for the ethnic and political elites
Kenya’s Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua who recently compared government with a company. PHOTO | WACHIRA MWANGI | NMG
It’sOur Turn to Eat, the book by Michela Wrong, deconstructs the idea that drives contestation for power in Kenya. This idea is that people contest for and assume power in order to “eat”. Government is seen as a huge meat roast.
The elites in power apportion themselves and their cronies the choicest cuts. The losers get offal, hooves and skin. The rest of the population is left to scramble for crumbs falling from the table.
