Cool runnings: will Kenya’s ganja-nomics candidate be a kingmaker or sideshow?

As the two presidential heavyweights slug it out George Wajackoyah is advocating for bhang to be legalised and farmed

There is no need to be high on weed to think George Wajackoyah might have a point in the way he is conducting a low-budget campaign to become Kenya’s fifth president. The man proposing “ganja-nomics” as the solution to Kenya’s economic ills marked his final campaign push on Saturday by driving through Nairobi streets in a Toyota SUV, waving from the sunroof as passers-by formed small crowds to cheer him and take selfies...

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