Kenya: The Making and Breaking of Nick Mwendwa

The president of Kenya’s football federation officially left office at the end of November. But the dark clouds that have followed him still cast their shadow on the sport in the country.

“I can’t say that Nick Mwendwa was a victim of his success, but rather [he was] a product of his failures,” said award-winning journalist Mutwiri Mutuota on the rise and fall of the former president of the Football Kenya Federation (FKF).

Mwendwa faced multiple counts of fraud as part of a group who allegedly…