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World Service,26 Oct 2017,53 mins
Raila Odinga Calls for Boycott of Kenyan Elections
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As Kenyans prepare to go to the polls again, the leader of the opposition Raila Odinga calls for the public to boycott the election. Kenyan writer and political analyst Nanjala Nyabola considers how much credibility such an election actually has. Also on the programme, the BBC's Devina Gupta talks about what the US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hopes to achieve during his visit to India and following the death of Fats Domino, Business Matters speaks to Rick Coleman, the writer of the biography Blue Monday:Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll. Roger Hearing is joined throughout the programme for comment by David Kuo, of the Motley Fool, from Singapore, and financial reform advocate, Alexis Goldstein in Washington. (PHOTO CREDIT: TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images)
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