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Title: | Dilemmas of the Kenyan Succession |
Author: | Southall, Roger J. |
Year: | 2000 |
Periodical: | Review of African Political Economy |
Volume: | 27 |
Issue: | 84 |
Period: | June |
Pages: | 203-219 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Kenya |
Subjects: | democracy presidential elections Politics and Government |
External links: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056240008704455 http://ejournals.ebsco.com/direct.asp?ArticleID=4FA0B3A6C24D19174951 |
Abstract: | Under the weight of a diversity of pressures, Daniel Arap Moi has announced his forthcoming retirement from the presidency. The resultant succession dilemma which is dominating Kenyan politics is accentuated by endemic corruption, economic decline and increasing popular antipathy to the KANU (Kenya African National Union) regime. Yet the balance of forces is still tipped against the forces struggling for democracy. The regime presently retains sufficient resources to frustrate democratic initiatives until it obtains a transitional settlement which it can tolerate. A 'second-best' solution, which provides negotiated shelter for those who have gained by corruption or who have abused human rights, may therefore prove to be the most workable way to avoid a resort to armed resistance by present powerholders and pave the way towards a democratic transition. The opposition is only likely to achieve serious momentum if it works to overcome its existent divisions and to forge links with civil society. The mobilization of an effective opposition coalition, agreed around a minimum programme, must remain a priority. Bibliogr., sum. |