Ruto: Insider who ran presidential race as an outsider

Kenyan President-Elect William Ruto

Kenyan President-Elect William Ruto delivers a speech at the Bomas of Kenya Tallying Centre in Nairobi on August 15, 2022.

Photo credit: Tony Karumba | AFP

What you need to know:

  • Ruto's Hustler vs Dynasty narrative, a potent class ideology that in many ways transformed competitive politics from the usual ethnic mobilisation.
  • His tears flow easily, and these ones would have been well-deserved as he contemplated the enormity of what he had achieved.
  • It was no doubt a feat of great satisfaction that his “hustler movement” took on the combined forces of the Kenyatta, Moi and Odinga scions and emerged victorious.