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Article: Is it ever their money?
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- New Statesman
- Article date:
- September 10, 2007
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" H Hummer is here," the billboards looming over Nairobi's dusty streets ominously announce. "Maybe you felt the tremors." Indeed we did. Long before General Motors East Africa officially launched its Hummer H3 on the local market last week - a mere snip at six million Kenyan shillings (£45 ,000)- the brashest of off-road vehicles had caused a stir here in Kenya.
Demonstrating his clear superiority over those who are only now getting their chance to place orders with GM's local branch, the opposition leader Raila Odinga has been driving an imported red Hummer- said to be a gift from an admirer-for months. A showman to his fingertips, he is depending on the Hummer to lend added glamour to ...