Host Carol Castiel speaks with Matthew Carotenuto, Professor of History at St. Lawrence University, and Michael Wairungu, Assistant Director of Student Life and Academic Instruction at the St. Lawrence University Kenya Semester program, about what is at stake in the upcoming August 9 elections in Kenya, a key geostrategic US partner and economic powerhouse in East Africa. Analysts are cautiously optimistic that the violence which wracked previous elections can be avoided as opposition politician and former prime minister, Raila Odinga, faces deputy president William Ruto in a highly contested election.