President Uhuru Kenyatta greets ODM leader Raila Odinga during the National Prayer Breakfast at the Safari Park hotel. [Evans Ouma, Standard] “Waxing spiritual, Raila Odinga lights up Prayer Breakfast”

For a more detailed discussion of Ken Opalo’s new book, see Episode 79 of Kim Yi Dionne and Rachel Beatty Riedl’s great weekly Ufahamuafrica Podcast.

This week’s featured conversation is with Ken Opalo(@kopalo), an Assistant Professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He talks about his newly published book, Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies. Long-time listeners might recall that Ken was on the show back in 2017, ahead of the Kenyan elections. Have a listen to Rachel’s conversation with Ken about his book and about his next project, which examines government provision of public goods, like health services. Their conversation begins at 13:36.