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  • Post-Election Amnesia

    Posted: April 9, 2008, 9:43 pm
    Kenya's relative stability over the last two months lies in the hands of Kenya's political class.

    Yesterday's Cabinet gridlock resulted in riots and civil unrest in parts of the country. Until the National Accord and Reconciliation Act is fully implemented Kenya is once again destined for uncertain times.

    Patrick Gathara o

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  • Freshly-baked folly

    Posted: April 9, 2008, 9:34 pm
    Rank foolishness and misunderstanding. Yet another example.

    Sijui, in a comment at Ory's, says:

    One thing I particularly like about the aftermath of the Kenyan election is that the average low income mwananchi fought back, and in my opinion they fought less for their civic freedoms......I think that is obvious by the nature of the blood letting.........but more for their naked self interest, as blatantly parochial and regressive as that might be. I now have far more respect for people acting on their suspicions and resentments than the cowardly, complacent and self absorbed ‘middle class'. And I don't want to make the mistake of painting the ENTIRE Kenyan middle class with the same brush, that would be dishonest and clearly there are many who fought the good fight however my point is, things would not have changed HAD THE VAST MAJORITY of the working class and low income not brandished their pangas.

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    Read more from Godfrey Munira here.

  • Voting patterns and ethnicity in Kenya

    Posted: April 9, 2008, 9:31 pm
    A new report brings intriguing data about voting patterns in Kenya. To no one's surprise, elections in God's own country are mostly an exercise in ethnic head-counting. But not always.

    There are other factors that pull at the electorate, and at least in the minds of the respondents, evidence of an aspiration towards elections as a referendum on the performance of the incumbent rather than a mindless affirmation of ethnic affiliation. The importance of ethnicity it seems is dependent on the voter's self-ascribed identity, with "ethnics" more often employing feelings of group identity and "non-ethnics" more often making rational calculations of self and group interest.

    Read and Discuss here.

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