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Title:Kenya's uncertain democracy: the electoral crisis of 2008
Editors:Kagwanja, PeterISNI
Southall, RogerISNI
Year:2009
Periodical:Journal of Contemporary African Studies (ISSN 0258-9001)
Volume:27
Issue:3
Pages:257-461
Language:English
Geographic term:Kenya
Subjects:elections
2007
political violence
ethnicity
land rights
conflict resolution
international politics
Abstract:Kenya came to the brink of collapse in the wake of the disputed 27 December 2007 elections. This special issue on Kenya's electoral crisis of 2008 is the result of discussions at a one-day meeting organized by the Africa Policy Institute in Nairobi on 8 December 2008. Contributions: Introduction: Kenya - a democracy in retreat? (Peter Kagwanja and Roger Southall); 'Poll poison'? Politicians and polling in the 2007 Kenya election (Thomas P. Wolf); Weapons of mass destruction: land, ethnicity and the 2007 elections in Kenya (Marcel Rutten and Sam Owuor); The legacy of the white highlands: land rights, ethnicity and the post-2007 election violence in Kenya (Karuti Kanyinga); The politics of displacement in multiparty Kenya (Prisca Mbura Kamungi); Courting genocide: populism, ethno-nationalism and the informalisation of violence in Kenya's 2008 post-election crisis (Peter Kagwanja); Donor responses to the 2008 Kenyan crisis: finally getting it right? (Stephen Brown); African mediation of the Kenyan post-2007 election crisis) (Monica Kathina Juma); Regionalism and conflict resolution: lessons from the Kenyan crisis (Gilbert M. Khadiagala); Alternatives for electoral reform: lessons from southern Africa (Roger Southall). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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