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Kenya: A Fresh Start, But Some Old Clauses to Guide Transition
Nation, 26 August 2010
Kenyans can expect gradual change, especially in governance over the next couple of years starting Friday. Read more »
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Kenya: Power and Initiative Have Moved to the Grassroots
Nation, 26 August 2010
The small scale businessman and contractor living in the countryside hopes that the new dispensation will lead to more work and, therefore, more money in his pockets. Read more »
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Kenya: Democracy and Development Can Both Be Possible
Nation, 26 August 2010
Under the new Constitution, Kenya enters a phase in which it intends to pursue simultaneously the paths of rapid economic growth under Kenya Vision 2030 and democratic governance… Read more »
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Kenya: The Best Things in Life Can Be Free
Nation, 26 August 2010
Article 43 of the new Constitution creates an expanded Bill of Rights. In addition to civil and political rights, like freedom of speech or association, that protect citizens from… Read more »
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Kenya: Unity and Dissent Are Our Shared Future Under the New Dispensation
Nation, 26 August 2010
The road to a new constitutional dispensation has been tortuous and full of brutality against those opposed to the Establishment. Read more »
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Kenya: Farewell to Personality Cults and Tribal Myth-Making
Nation, 26 August 2010
Friday, for ordinary Kenyans, is a moment of freedom. Independence in 1963 allowed ordinary Africans to cross Government Road and enter the hitherto prohibited European areas, but… Read more »
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Kenya: No, You Cannot Liberate the Economy From Politics
Nation, 26 August 2010
Newly independent African countries faced two daunting challenges. The challenge of political development - namely, how to forge disparate tribes and races into stable nations; and… Read more »
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Kenya: Citizens Finally Take Charge of Their Destiny
Nation, 26 August 2010
"We the People..." Those stirring words in the preamble serve as a powerful indicator that the new Constitution of Kenya being proclaimed today belongs to the people. Read more »
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Kenya: Rights Abuses Mobilised Muslim Support for New Laws
Nation, 26 August 2010
The Preamble of the new Constitution states in part: "We the people of Kenya, exercising our sovereign and inalienable right to determine the form of governance of our country and… Read more »
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Kenya: The Promise And the Risks of Devolution
Nation, 26 August 2010
One of the key reforms of the Constitution is the establishment of devolution through county governments. Primarily, it is a response to the enormous centralisation of state power… Read more »
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Kenya: 'Devolution of Corruption' Can Give Accidental Birth to Unity
Nation, 26 August 2010
Of all the articles in Kenya's new Constitution, the one on which there was the most serious debate was probably on devolution. Read more »
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Kenya: New Law is a Framework for People's Dreams. Says Kufuor
Nation, 26 August 2010
Former Ghanaian president and Africa Union chairman John Kufuor arrived in Nairobi on Thursday and gave an exclusive interview to the Daily Nation. Read more »
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Africa: Citizens See a Tomorrow That Works; Africa Must Follow
Nation, 26 August 2010
Some statements made by individuals who cannot be accused of the sin of intellectualism say it more clearly than all the published theses by all your egghead pontificators put… Read more »
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Kenya: A Vision of Prosperity for the Second Republic
Nation, 26 August 2010
Kenya has spoken. Today, August 27, the country celebrates the birth of the Second Republic. The new Constitution has passed and with it, the old order has come to an end. Read more »
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Kenya: The Second Republic a Dividend for Dissidents
Nation, 26 August 2010
In 1982 when the Kanu regime under the presidency of Daniel arap Moi decided to make Kenya a one-party state by law, the late Mukaru Ng'ang'a, then a lecturer in history at the… Read more »
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East Africa: Is It Yet Uhuru? East Africans Revisit the Contract With Their Rulers
Nation, 26 August 2010
In 1967, former vice-president Jaramogi Oginga Odinga published his autobiography, Not Yet Uhuru. And with it he gave Africa one of the two most used phrases from post-colonial… Read more »
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Kenya: Ready for Take Off - Finally, Region Has a Blueprint to Be an Economic Powerhouse
Nation, 26 August 2010
The newly ratified Constitution offers Kenya the best chance ever of achieving prosperity in the league of Botswana, Hong Kong and Singapore. Many of its checks and balances put… Read more »
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Kenya: Will the New Constitution Really Change Politics and Society?
Nation, 26 August 2010
My former professor and mentor, Professor Yash Ghai writes that "in general, as we know, a constitution is not a self-operating or self-executing instrument.... Read more »