Attack adverts raise the temperature in run-up to Kenya’s elections
Nairobi — A strikingly toxic campaign advert was unleashed online in Kenya just weeks before national elections — a potentially explosive move in a country where politics and ethnicity are closely aligned. The 90-second video, shot in moody monochrome, presented a dystopia in which Raila Odinga, the leading opposition candidate, wins the August vote and plunges the nation into a violent and inept dictatorship. Under this scenario, tribes would be set against one another while terrorists run riot. "Stop Raila, save Kenya. The future of Kenya is in your hands," the video said. East Africa’s largest economy holds its general election on August 8, a decade after disputed poll results fuelled violence that left more than 1,100 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. It is unclear who is behind last week’s slick video or "The Real Raila", the shadowy pro-government outfit that disseminated it. But some on Kenya’s vibrant social media networks were quick to blame Cambridge Analytica (CA)...
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