Kenya before the elections
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 societie
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