Politics
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Kenya 2013: rise of the six-piece suit – By Andrew Green
Though the presidential race is getting most of the attention, when voters go to the polls today, they will be voting for more than ... -
Kenya 2013: the art of the grin and shimmy – By Magnus Taylor
Nairobi 03/03/2013 I’ve talked to a lot of people since I’ve been in Nairobi. To the taxi driver and policeman; the journalists at the ... -
A rich man’s game: elections, violence and the urban poor in Nairobi – By Jeremy Lind
Kenyans go to the polls for national elections on Monday March 4th for the first time since a conflagration of violence swept the country ... -
Kenya: In praise of the minimalist President – By Magnus Taylor
28/02/2013, Nairobi It’s a cliché, but the first thing I experienced coming back to Nairobi this time around was the traffic. Two hours of ... -
Kenya between hope and despair. Again – By Daniel Branch
Many Kenyans will go to the polls on 4 March with a sense of trepidation. Three of the four elections since 1992 have been ... -
Framing news in Africa – how journalists approach stories and reinforce stereotypes – By Keith Somerville
Having worked as a journalist for 33 years and having taught journalism and analysed the processes and performance of journalism for the last five, ... -
Darfur before: technologies, symbolism and multiple identities
Over the last 50 years several interconnected crises (ecological, economic, and political) have been building up in Darfur, culminating with atrocities of killing, rape, ... -
Kenya: Revisiting Joel Barkan’s Possibility of a Requiem – By Leonerd Wanyama
The Council on Foreign Relations’ (CFR) recently posted on its website a Contingency Planning Memorandum on Electoral Violence in Kenya. The document seems to ... -
Kenya transfixed by its illiberal and rightwing gang of eight – By Daniel Waweru
It’s often said that Kenya’s political parties lack any ideological underpinning. The recent pair of Presidential debates shows this false. The discussion of economic ... -
This time the Kenyan presidential election could have been about issues – By Andrew Green
Since multi-party democracy returned to Kenya in 1992, voting at election time has largely divided itself along ethnic lines. In 2007, when President Mwai ...
