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Title:Constitutional law and politics in Kenya since independence: a study in class and power in a neo-colonial State in Africa
Author:Gutto, Shadrack B.O.ISNI
Year:1987
Periodical:The Zimbabwe Law Review
Volume:5
Pages:142-171
Language:English
Notes:biblio. refs.
Geographic terms:Kenya
East Africa
Subjects:political repression
public law
law
constitutional law
class struggle
human rights
Abstract:In Kenya, constitutional law has been used as an effective weapon in the hands of the ruling classes and their sponsors and collaborators, to narrow the arena of mass political involvement in democratic processes at the economic, social and cultural levels. It has also been used as a tool for repression against political opposition and resistance to neocolonial fascism. The 1980s saw the lifting of the veil that for so long had kept the reality of constitutional repression in Kenya hidden from the rest of the world. The author further discusses the perversion of the legal process and judiciary, the use of the courts, the ruling party (KANU) and Parliament as instruments of State for political repression, and the all-pervasive dominance of the executive. Notes, ref.
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