Vol 62 No 2 | KENYA The race for Nairobi 21st January 2021 The BBI alliance is manoeuvring its ally into the Nairobi governorship because it fears losing another by-election The political differences between Deputy President William Ruto and President Uhuru Kenyatta are playing themselves out in the tussle to fill the position of the governor of Nairobi.
Vol 62 No 1 | KENYA Handshake to face poll test 7th January 2021 The President’s coalition with his former adversary will be put to the electorate in 2021 against a backdrop of economic pain After a catastrophic decline in economic performance due to Covid-19 in 2020, aggravated by corruption and wrong-headed fiscal and public debt policies, 2021 promises to be particularly painful...
Vol 60 No 15 | KENYA Spinner caught in web 26th July 2019 In the months leading up to the August 2017 polls in Kenya, rumours flew that data-mining consultancy Cambridge Analytica, then at the height of its notoriety, had been...
Vol 49 No 22 | KENYA Calling politicians to account 31st October 2008 The Waki report on post-election violence names names, tells tales and could help clear up the nation's politics Kenyans feared another whitewash when Justice Philip Waki was appointed to head the Commission to Investigate the Post-Election Violence. Yet he has confounded the sceptics and produced a...
Vol 54 No 4 | KENYA Nairobi’s governing passions 15th February 2013 The race to be governor of the capital is tense, filled with drama and defying the expectations of the experts The Nairobi gubernatorial race – part of the 4 March general elections – is turning into one of the most fascinating political battles of recent times. The...