- Vol 51 No 21
- 22nd October 2010
The suspension of Higher Education Minister William Ruto, 43, from cabinet on 19 October marks the second phase of the Kalenjin leader’s political isolation. Although State House said Ruto had been ‘stood aside’ (the awkward parlance for such suspensions ...
- Vol 51 No 20
- 8th October 2010
The International Criminal Court is blocked at every turn
as it tries to investigate political violence
- Vol 51 No 18
- 10th September 2010
In one fell swoop, the Khartoum government strengthens President Omer el Beshir and undermines the Nairobi government’s new constitution
- Vol 51 No 18
- 10th September 2010
Was the invitation to Sudan’s President Omer Hassan Ahmed el Beshir for the promulgation of Kenya’s new constitution another attempt by the securocracy to frustrate a new dispensation? It certainly delayed the rehabilitation of Kenya’s battered internatio...
- Vol 51 No 17
- 27th August 2010
Kenya is euphoric again. After barely averting civil war following the 2007 elections, the approval of a new constitution by referendum marks a dramatic turn in the country’s political fortunes (AC Vol 51 No 16). The 27 August launch of the constitution, ...
- Vol 51 No 16
- 6th August 2010
After a decisive referendum, Kenyans have a constitution that
will shake up both the political system and the party fiefdoms
- Vol 51 No 16
- 6th August 2010
Such was the tension in the Rift Valley as the referendum neared that a drunken brawl in a shebeen in Nandi District between a Nandi man and his Kisii friend swiftly formed the core of a rumour that evictions of non-Kalenjin had already started.
- Vol 51 No 15
- 23rd July 2010
An attempt by MPs to vote themselves a fat pay rise comes unstuck – the Treasury is running out of money
- Vol 51 No 14
- 9th July 2010
Maina Njenga’s evolution from gang leader to born-again Christian
to aspiring candidate highlights the breakdown of Kenyan politics
- Vol 51 No 14
- 9th July 2010
Mungiki started as a Kikuyu quasi-revivalist religious cult in the Rift Valley’s Laikipia District in the late 1980s. Many Mungiki members lost their land in the 1990s when President Daniel arap Moi’s government presided over state-orchestrated electoral ...