What is Kenya becoming : dealing with mass violence in the Rift Valley of Kenya
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2015-10
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Makerere Institute of Social Research, Makerere University, Kampala, UG
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Kenya has become a land of the landless, alongside huge land acquisitions by others, as well as a country where ethnicity is employed not just as a weapon for fighting this social injustice, but also as an instrument for defending the social injustice. National politics have made Kenyans become apprehensive of each other, ‘those whose leaders are in government’ against ‘those whose leaders are in opposition’. The 2010 Constitution of Kenya reflects some of the independence debates of the majority – minority representation, and the question of devolved government. This paper addresses democratization, and the self-awareness of Kenyans as their own people.
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DEMOCRATIZATION, POLITICAL WILL, POLITICAL STABILITY, KENYA, SOUTH OF SAHARA, ELECTIONS, POLITICAL BEHAVIOUR, POST-CONFLICT SOCIETIES