1st Edition

Kenya's Uncertain Democracy The Electoral Crisis of 2008

Edited By Peter Kagwanja, Roger Southall Copyright 2010
220 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

The plunging of Kenya, until recently a centre of stability and growth in East Africa, into political and economic uncertainty following the general election of December 2007 is regarded as a major cause for global and African concern. It is widely accepted that the elections were deeply flawed, and that there was electoral malfeasance by all the major players. President Kibaki's rapid... Read more

1. Democratic Recession: Violence and Power-Sharing in Kenya  Peter Kagwanja, Africa Policy Institute & University of Pretoria and Roger Southall, Wits University

2. The Politics of Displacement in Multi-Party Kenya  Priscah Kamungi, Centre of Conflict Studies, University of Nairobi

3. Resource-Based Conflict and Kenya’s Electoral Crisis in 2008  Rutten Marcel, African Studies Centre, Leiden The Netherlands

4. Kenya’s Political Militias  Peter Kagwanja, API and U

5. Donor Politics and the 2008 Kenyan Crisis  Monica Juma, Africa Institute of South Africa, Pretoria

6. Mediating Electoral Crisis: The African Union and the 2008 Kenyan Crisis  Stephen Brown, School of Political Studies. University of Ottawa

7. Regionalism and Conflict: Lessons from the Kenyan Crisis  Gilbert Khadiagala, University of Wits, South Africa

Biography

Peter Kagwanja is President of the Africa Policy Institute and research fellow at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Roger Southall is Editor of the Journal of Contemporary African Studies and Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.