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Founding president and liberation struggle icon Jomo KENYATTA led Kenya from independence until his death in 1978, when President Daniel Toroitich arap MOI took power in a constitutional succession. The country was a de facto one-party state from 196... [read more]
Founding president and liberation struggle icon Jomo KENYATTA led Kenya from independence until his death in 1978, when President Daniel Toroitich arap MOI took power in a constitutional succession. The country was a de facto one-party state from 196... [read more] Blog: Kenya before the elections
Date: January 31st 2008
On 27th December Kenyans turned out en mass to vote in democratic elections. Excitement was high but good natured. Many of the people I met in the preceding weeks had expressed a wish to be Kenyan first and to build a new nation. However micro-politics live just below the surface in a country with boundaries drawn on a map in the colonial era that paid little regard to the many indigenous socie ... read more
Date: January 31st 2008
On 27th December Kenyans turned out en mass to vote in democratic elections. Excitement was high but good natured. Many of the people I met in the preceding weeks had expressed a wish to be Kenyan first and to build a new nation. However micro-politics live just below the surface in a country with boundaries drawn on a map in the colonial era that paid little regard to the many indigenous socie ... read more
