Kitu kichafu sana : Daniel Arap Moi and the dirty business of dismembering Kenya’s body politic
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2015-10
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Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, Kampala, UG
Abstract
Kenya’s return to multi-party politics in 1991 has been defined by campaigns
for democracy and human rights, the intensification of politicization of
ethnic difference or ethnicization of political differences, intense political
competition state power, cyclical political violence, mass murder, rape, destruction,
displacement and land dispossessions. Moreover, Kenya’s general
elections, except the 2002 and 2013, have been characterized by waves of political
violence of varying regional intensity. The Rift Valley, however, more
than any other location, including the Coast Province, has experienced the
most frequent and intense forms of the elections related violence...
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