Karnet

Nicholas Kipyator Kiprono Araap Biwott\ " Total-Man", " Karnet"\ \ "I am a man. A total man. A man is a man. I will die a man in this country."\ \ These words, spoken in a small church in Keiyo South after his release from detention, became the epitaph of Nicholas Biwott, the most powerful and controversial figure in Kenya's second presidency.\ \ This is the first comprehensive biography of the man they called Karnet — Iron.\ \ From his birth in the hills of Keiyo to his education as the first Kenyan in Australia, from his rise as President Moi's most trusted lieutenant to his arrest for a…