Gabrielle Lynch

Gabrielle Lynch is a Lecturer in Africa and the Politics of Development in the School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds, and has been conducting research on politics and ethnicity in Kenya since 2003.

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Friday, July 17th, 2009

Kenya Post-2008: The calm before a storm?

Nineteen months have passed since Kenya’s contested 2007 election, when the rapid re-inauguration of President Mwai Kibaki heralded an outburst of post-election violence – characterised by targeted attacks on ethnic ‘others’, an overzealous state security response, and retaliatory attacks on ‘aggressor’ communities – which left over 1,000 people dead and more than 350,000 displaced. The violence ended in February 2008, when a coalition government was formed, but ‘deep peace’ remains elusive and reforms unlikely. What is left is only rhetoric differentiating this administration from post-Mau Mau amnesia and investigative committees without reforms, as after the ‘ethnic clashes’ of 1991-1993.

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