It's a well-oiled scene repeated many times across the country: William Ruto, 55, Kenya's vice-president and presidential candidate, meets groups of young people and offers them wheelbarrows.
Here, the wheelbarrow is the all-purpose tool and allows its owner to offer his services to collect a few pennies.
She has become the symbol of Ruto's party, the United Democratic Alliance (UDA), and above all the symbol of this class of
hustlers
, the fighters, ready to do anything to earn their bread and change their social status.
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Ruto, dressed to the nines, then takes off in animated tirades over which he likes to recall his modest origins.
From a village in the Rift Valley, he walked barefoot to school - before buying his first pair of shoes at the age of 15 - and sold chickens by the roadside to come helping his family.
By confronting Raila Odinga, the politician who has run for the highest public office...
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