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Title: | Responses to election outcomes: the aftermath of 2007 elections in Nigeria and Kenya |
Author: | Orji, Nkwachukwu |
Year: | 2010 |
Periodical: | African and Asian Studies (ISSN 1569-2094) |
Volume: | 9 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 436-461 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Kenya Nigeria |
Subjects: | elections political violence 2007 |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1163/156921010X534814 |
Abstract: | The aim of this article is to explain variations in losers' behaviour after the 2007 elections in Nigeria and Kenya. It analyses the conditions that made it possible for violent post-election protests to occur in Kenya and not in Nigeria. The main question the article addresses is why the losers in Nigeria chose to peacefully protest the 2007 election results while the losers in Kenya protested violently. The article is based on an analysis of documents, including published literature, official documents, and media reports. It argues that violent post-election protests occurred in Kenya, and not in Nigeria, because of the higher political salience of ethnicity, the stronger elite-mass linkage, and the winner-loser power parity in Kenya. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract] |