Re: [silk] Toothless goats

[ashok]

I read excerpts from it, which were serialized in
the local newspapers.
It is a book tainted with propaganda, but is not badly
written and the
parts about the failed 1982 Airforce coup and his
subsequent 
incarceration and torture (which were serialized)
are very interesting 
at the very least from a historical point of view.


Since it is an officially commissioned biography,
launched in conjunction 
with his 2007 election campaign -- it is quite self
aggrandizing
and contrary to what people outside might think (or
as the book might 
make you believe....)the man appeals to only a Luo
tribal electorate.

There is also apparently a lot of stuff about his
dad's political legacy
and break up with Kenyatta etc..and Raila's subsequent
entry into the
mainstream, much of that is known and has been covered
by others, so i 
gather will be marginally interesting when compared
to the the things 
mentioned already....

I find it interesting that you are able to keep up
with Kenyan politics
from the US.  Do you run into many Kenyans in
the US? 


> Ashok, did you read the newly released biography
of Raila? Would you
> recommend it for reading?
> 
> Thaths