The violence that erupted, following the 30 December 2007 civic, parliamentary and presidential elections in Kenya is analysed as part of various historical continua anchored on social engineering by colonial officials who sought to control social change after the Mau Mau conflict. Presidents Jomo Kenyatta and Daniel arap Moi built on this colonial strategy for managing challenges by socialist and pro-democracy forces to their hold on power. Moi’s regime had to combat challenges to his electoral fortunes from 1988 onwards and left behind a technology that was a useful investment for 2007/2008 opposition groups. Both forms of social engineering gave prominence to tribalism as an organising tool. The power behind the success of these exercise...
Kenya has held presidential, parliamentary and local government elections every five years since ind...
During the run-up to Kenya's 2013 general elections, crucial political and civic questions were rais...
In Africa, the new electoral freedoms of the 1990s often ushered in not less but more violence and c...
The violence that erupted, following the 30 December 2007 civic, parliamentary and presidential elec...
Kenya’s return to multi-party politics in 1991 has been defined by campaigns for democracy and huma...
It is no doubt that violence or war disrupts not only the social, economic, religious dimensions of ...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116824/1/Ashforth on Kalenjin ethnonati...
When and where do contentious politics become violent politics? How does election violence emerge fr...
Introduction The announcement of the presidential poll results caused a massive outpouring of violen...
The Kenyan political System, neither democratie nor dictatorial, belongs to the category of authorit...
Immediately after the announcement of the re-election of President Kibaki on the evening of 30 Decem...
During the run-up to Kenya’s 2013 general elections, crucial political and civic questions were rais...
This article investigates the reason behind the violence after the 2007 election in Kenya. Assuming ...
Since the colonial and early independence eras, violence has been used in Kenya as a strategy to man...
A Thesis Submitted to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences in Partial Fulfilment of the Requ...
Kenya has held presidential, parliamentary and local government elections every five years since ind...
During the run-up to Kenya's 2013 general elections, crucial political and civic questions were rais...
In Africa, the new electoral freedoms of the 1990s often ushered in not less but more violence and c...
The violence that erupted, following the 30 December 2007 civic, parliamentary and presidential elec...
Kenya’s return to multi-party politics in 1991 has been defined by campaigns for democracy and huma...
It is no doubt that violence or war disrupts not only the social, economic, religious dimensions of ...
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/116824/1/Ashforth on Kalenjin ethnonati...
When and where do contentious politics become violent politics? How does election violence emerge fr...
Introduction The announcement of the presidential poll results caused a massive outpouring of violen...
The Kenyan political System, neither democratie nor dictatorial, belongs to the category of authorit...
Immediately after the announcement of the re-election of President Kibaki on the evening of 30 Decem...
During the run-up to Kenya’s 2013 general elections, crucial political and civic questions were rais...
This article investigates the reason behind the violence after the 2007 election in Kenya. Assuming ...
Since the colonial and early independence eras, violence has been used in Kenya as a strategy to man...
A Thesis Submitted to the School of Humanities and Social Sciences in Partial Fulfilment of the Requ...
Kenya has held presidential, parliamentary and local government elections every five years since ind...
During the run-up to Kenya's 2013 general elections, crucial political and civic questions were rais...
In Africa, the new electoral freedoms of the 1990s often ushered in not less but more violence and c...