'Power to Uhuru': Youth identity and generational politics in Kenya's 2002 elections

African Affairs

Volumn 105, Issue 418, 2006, Pages 51-75

  Kagwanja, Peter Mwangi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTION; ETHNICITY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; POLITICS; YOUNG POPULATION;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICA; KENYA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 31444448634     PISSN: 00019909     EISSN: 14682621     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/afraf/adi067     Document Type: Article

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