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Charles Onyango-Obbo

Charles Onyango-Obbo is the Nation Media Group’s managing editor for Convergence and New Products in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Kenya after Mwai Kibaki

The lesson of Kenya's last three years of democratic government, culminating in an explosive corruption scandal, is a surprisingly optimistic one, argues Charles Onyango-Obbo: not all African "revolutions" eat their children.