KANGARI, Kenya — The helicopter swooped over the plush tea and occasional fields flanking Mount Kenya, Africa’s second highest peak, and touched down exterior a small highland city the place William Ruto, the self-proclaimed chief of Kenya’s “hustler nation,” stepped out.
Mr. Ruto, a front-runner in subsequent Tuesday’s presidential election, is pinning his hopes on what he calls Kenya’s “hustlers” — the plenty of annoyed younger folks, most of them poor, who simply wish to get forward. He delights supporters along with his account of how he was as soon as so poor that he offered chickens on the roadside, and along with his spirited assaults on rivals he portrays as elitist and out of contact.
“I grew up…