Parable of PLO's hammer-lifting mosquitoes, and professorial pecking order in Kisumu fete

PLO Lumumba takes centre stage in a curious clash of professors, protocol and pecking order in Kisumu. [File, Standard]

Parable of PLO’s hammer-lifting mosquitoes, and professorial pecking order in Kisumu fete

Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, aka PLO, has fashioned himself as the quintessential public intellectual. A lawyer by training, he’s popular in local and international conference circuits due to his energised delivery of kizungu mingi. One of his memorable quips was that one doesn’t kill a mosquito using a hammer.

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