How Kenya’s high-stakes election will be won

This photograph taken on August 1, 2022, shows a ballot box of the presidential election before being transported to a polling station, at a warehouse in Nairobi, Kenya. PHOTO | AFP

All eyes are on Kenya, one of Africa’s leading economies, which will be electing a new president on August 9.

Billed as the country’s ‘most competitive’ and ‘high stakes’ vote and Africa’s most ‘consequential’ event in 2022, the presidential contest is a perfect battle of the titans.