From marginalisation to victimisation: The weapons in Kenya's electoral politics

Goons in Homa Bay during the Linda Mwananchi rally.[File, Standard]

For the past week, Homa Bay has been a familiar punchline on Kenya’s social-media streets, where images of dusty, cratered roads, with claims of marginalisation by previous regimes, have fueled bitter political rivalry that saw violence during the recent Linda Mwananchi rally.

The roads have been turned into memes depicting a county trapped somewhere between the landscapes of countries in the desert Gulf regions.