In what some have called a coup, Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga was hastily sworn in in a mock ceremony as the "people's president" by two lawyers in the presence of a sizeable crowd.
The brief January 30 ceremony took place in central Nairobi's largest park. But this was not a coup. Odinga did not purport to assume the constitutional office of the president held by his rival Uhuru Kenyatta. As some of his supporters have argued, this swearing-in was largely symbolic.
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