July 19

• Africa: Violence and Transition in Post Settler-Colonial States [analysis]

  The recently concluded elections in Kenya against the background of the electoral violence of 2007, the anticipated election in Zimbabwe in 2013 with the memory of state led... Read more »

July 03

• Kenya: Nation's Misbehavior in Kismayo and Consequences of Disrespecting the Amisom Mandate [analysis]

  Currently Kenya has about 4,000 soldiers deployed as part of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), a peacekeeping force mandated by the United Nations Security Council to... Read more »

June 07

• Kenya: Forgetting Mau Mau, Remembering Lonrho [analysis]

  I am glad the Kenyans caught up in the Mau Mau rebellion in the 1950s have finally got compensation from the UK Government for being tortured. As the deeply racist and imperialist... Read more »

May 28

• Kenya: Which Way Forward for Civil Society? [analysis]

  It is no secret that the candidature of Raila Odinga had the backing of the largely progressive Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in Kenya's recent Presidential election. Read more »

May 22

• Kenya: Politicizing the ICC Process Will Not Let ICC Suspects Off the Hook [analysis]

  At the World Economic Forum two weeks ago, Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta said that Kenya will meet its obligations under the Rome Statute even as he seeks to clear his name at... Read more »

May 08

• Kenya: Kenyatta, Ruto and the ICC - Diplomatic Earthquake in the Offing [analysis]

  Everyone is so relieved that the Kenyan election this year did not result in a repeat of ethnic violence after the 2007 election, that we seem to have forgotten that both President... Read more »

April 04

• Kenya: What Can the Kenyan Coast Tell Us About the 2013 Elections? [analysis]

  In discussing the elections at the Kenyan coast, I want to make two, perhaps contradictory, points. The first is that the coast has its own particular dynamics, which must be... Read more »

April 03

• Africa: Kenya Following Sudan Tactics to Undermine ICC? [analysis]

  The Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) obliges states parties to cooperate with the Court in regards to its investigations and prosecutions. Read more »

March 10

• Kenya: Kenya 2013 - the Power of Nightmares [opinion]

  After 5 days of waiting - first queuing to vote, then watching for results - it slowly became apparent that Uhuru Kenyatta (Son of the Father of the Nation, ICC indictee and leader... Read more »

March 09

• Kenya: Simple Points to Take Away From 2013 Polls [analysis]

  Politics is more than elections Read more »

March 07

• Kenya: Coalition Begins to Show the Strain [analysis]

  We don't know who's going to win Kenya's Presidential election 3 days after voting took place. The results from around the country are still being tallied and last time I checked... Read more »

March 06

• Kenya: Understanding Kenya's Rejected Ballots [analysis]

  Kenya's future now turns on the technicalities of electoral law. As Katrina Manson of the Financial Times and Jason Straziuso and Rodney Muhumza of the Associated Press reported... Read more »

• Africa: Technical Problems Threatening to Spoil Kenya's Smooth Election Process [analysis]

  Kenya took too much of the lessons of 2007/2008 to heart. First, the institutions and processes for conducting the election were thoroughly followed to deliver a free and fair... Read more »

• Kenya: Watching and Waiting At Bomas and Westlands [analysis]

  Bomas of Kenya has, for the last 2 days, been the official location of Kenya's Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission for its coordination and announcement of election... Read more »

March 01

• Kenya: In Praise of the Minimalist President [opinion]

  It's a cliché, but the first thing I experienced coming back to Nairobi this time around was the traffic. Two hours of it, mostly bumper to bumper, from the airport to the... Read more »

• Kenya: A Rich Man's Game - Elections, Violence and the Urban Poor in Nairobi [analysis]

  Kenyans go to the polls for national elections on Monday March 4th for the first time since a conflagration of violence swept the country following disputed election results in... Read more »

March 04

• Kenya: Elections 2013 - Rise of the Six-Piece Suit [analysis]

  Though the presidential race is getting most of the attention, when voters go to the polls today, they will be voting for more than an executive. Read more »

March 03

• Kenya: The Art of the Grin and Shimmy [analysis]

  I've talked to a lot of people since I've been in Nairobi. To the taxi driver and policeman; the journalists at the Nation Newspaper who gave me a run-down of battleground seats;... Read more »

February 28

• Kenya: Between Hope and Despair. Again [analysis]

  Many Kenyans will go to the polls on 4 March with a sense of trepidation. Read more »

February 25

• Kenya: Dealing with U.S. Document on Election Violence [analysis]

  The Council on Foreign Relations' (CFR) recently posted on its website a Contingency Planning Memorandum on Electoral Violence in Kenya. Read more »

February 22

• Kenya: Nation Transfixed By Its Illiberal and Rightwing Gang of Eight [analysis]

  It's often said that Kenya's political parties lack any ideological underpinning. The recent pair of Presidential debates shows this false. Read more »

• Kenya: This Time the Presidential Election Could Have Been About Issues [analysis]

  Since multi-party democracy returned to Kenya in 1992, voting at election time has largely divided itself along ethnic lines. In 2007, when President Mwai Kibaki narrowly edged out... Read more »

February 08

• Kenya: Obama's Unusual Intervention [analysis]

  The upcoming national elections in Kenya bring a sense of trepidation and foreboding due to the post-election violence witnessed following the polls in 2007. Read more »

February 01

• Kenya: Mungiki Regroup Pre-Election in Search of Political Influence [analysis]

  Mungiki was one of the key protagonists in the post-election violence (PEV) of 2008 and has for years been perceived and presented as one of the principal internal security threats... Read more »

January 29

• Kenya: Election - Brave New World or Highway to Hell? [opinion]

  Everyone is strapped in and the Kenyan election roller coaster has begun. A cacophony of electioneering propaganda is being blasted out through every medium. Read more »