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Title: | Violence and the Dynamics of Transition: State, Ethnicity and Governance in Kenya |
Author: | Osamba, Joshia O. |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | Africa Development: A Quarterly Journal of CODESRIA (ISSN 0850-3907) |
Volume: | 26 |
Issue: | 1-2 |
Pages: | 37-54 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Kenya East Africa |
Subjects: | ethnicity democracy political repression Law, Human Rights and Violence Politics and Government Ethnic and Race Relations politics violence Power (Social sciences) governance |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/43661154 |
Abstract: | Since the reintroduction of political pluralism in Kenya in 1991 there has been an upsurge in cases of conflict and violence. The violence and conflicts are the fallout of the unresolved problems of citizenship and statehood in Kenya. The violence appears to have been the result of deliberate instigation and manipulation by the State and its immediate causes were political rather than ethnic. Ethnicity exists mainly as a mechanism for accumulating wealth and political power through control of the State apparatus and the national resources to which the State has access. The institutionalization of violence has adversely affected the process of democratization and governance in Kenya. Bibliogr. [ASC Leiden abstract] |