In January 2003, Kenya was hailed as a model of democracy after
the peaceful election of its new president, Mwai Kibaki. By
appointing respected longtime reformer John Githongo as
anticorruption czar, the new Kikuyu government signaled its
determination to end the corrupt practices that had tainted the
previous regime. Yet only two years later, Githongo himself was on
the run, having secretly compiled evidence of official malfeasance
throughout the new administration. Unable to remain silent,
Githongo, at great personal risk, made the painful choice to go
public. The result was a Kenyan Watergate.
Michela Wrong's account of how a pillar of the establishment
turned whistle-blower--becoming simultaneously one of the most
hated and admired men in Kenya--grips like a political thriller
while probing the very roots of the continent's predicament.
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