In January 2003, Kenya was hailed as a model of democracy after the peaceful election of its new president, Mwai Kibaki. By appointing respected longtime reformer John Githongo as anticorruption czar, the new Kikuyu government signaled its determination to end the corrupt practices that had tainted the previous regime. Yet only two years later, Githongo himself was on the run, having secretly compiled evidence of official malfeasance throughout the new administration. Unable to remain silent, Githongo, at great personal risk, made the painful choice to go public. The result was a Kenyan Watergate. Michela Wrong's account of how a pillar of the establishment turned whistle-blower-becoming simultaneously one of the most hated and admired men in Kenya-grips like a political thriller while probing the very roots of the continent's predicament.<BR><BR>"Urgent and important."---Harper's Magazine<BR><BR>"A tumultuous journey through the official networks of sleaze that drained billions of dollars from Kenya's coffers and exacerbated the nation's tribal tensions to levels that almost tore Kenya apart....Shocking."---Newsweek International