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Title:Violence and the Dynamics of Transition: State, Ethnicity and Governance in Kenya
Author:Osamba, Joshia O.ISNI
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]
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