African Arguments
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Kenya: The Normalisation of Violence
Writing more than twenty years ago about Idi Amin’s Uganda, Ali Mazrui observed that Everyone was talking about the tyrant. I suggested that more people ... -
Kenya: DIY Violence is Corrosive of Nationhood
It is not often that participants in ethnic cleansing confess to it openly, but William ole Ntimama has managed it twice: in a 1996 ... -
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 – ... -
Kenya’s Spectre of Impunity and the Politics of the Special Tribunal
On 9 July 2009, Kofi Annan the former chief mediator in the aftermath of Kenya's post-electoral violence, transferred an undisclosed list of senior politicians ... -
Watu Wazima: A gender analysis of forced male circumcisions during Kenya’s post-election violence.
tories of men being forcibly circumcised and even castrated peppered news accounts of the madness that overtook Kenya in the aftermath of the December ... -
Kenya: Our Possible Futures; Our Choices
We knew or should have known that it was coming. But somehow we thought or believed, as the most corrupt country in the region, ... -
Introduction-Kenya’s politics of violence and accountability
This forum offers a space where concerned Kenyans can come together with a range of experts, scholars, practitioners, and commentators to discuss fundamental questions ... -
Darfur and Compassion Fatigue
Writing in the New York Review of Books recently, Pullitzer winner and Darfur advocate Nicholas Kristof noted that “Darfur fatigue” had set in, and ... -
Can Development Take Place Before Peace? The Experience of “Kids for Kids”
Last week in the House of Commons, London, I introduced a debate which I believe has the potential of affecting many lives. It is ... -
The AU Panel and the Justice Challenge in Sudan (3)
The third and final posting on this subject examines the views of participants on how justice can be achieved in Sudan, looking at the ...