Kenya: Back from the brink?

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 125-139

  Chege, Michael ^a  

^a Kenya's Ministry of State for Planning and Development

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EID: 56049099562     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (27)

1. Jeffrey Gettleman, "Disputed Vote Plunges Kenya Into Bloodshed," New York Times, 31 December 2007.
2. Arend Lijphart, Democracy in Plural Societies (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977);
3. see also W. Arthur Lewis, Politics in West Africa (New York: Oxford University Press, 1965), 64-90.
4. Farced Zakaria, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad (New York: W.W. Norton, 2003), 59-69.
5. U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook; www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ke.html, updated 24 July 2008.
6. Thomas L. Friedman, "The African Connection," New York Times, 4 April 2007.
7. See Githongo's report, available at http:///news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/ bsp/hi/pdfs/09_02_06_kenya_report.pdf.
8. Joel D. Barkan, "Kenya After Moi," Foreign Affairs 83 (January-February 2004): 87-100.
9. "Keriri Tells Why Kibaki Trashed Coalition's 2002 MoU," Standard (Nairobi), 11 September 2007.
10. Larry Diamond, Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999), 104.
11. Society for International Development (SID), Eastern Africa Regional Office, Pulling Apart: Facts and Figures on Inequality in Kenya (Nairobi: SID, 2004). The report controversially argued that Kenya was among the most unequal societies in the world, and also touched on gender inequalities.
12. Yash Ghai, "Dishonest and Incapable CKRC," Standard, 26 July 2004.
13. Barrack Muluka, "Devolution Can Cure Skewed Distribution of Nation's Wealth," Standard, 22 July 2006;
14. see also Muluka, "Federalism Could Bridge Current Development Gaps," Standard, 29 July 2006.
15. Standard, 24 March 2007;
16. and Sunday Nation (Nairobi). 25 March 2007.
17. See Amy Chua, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (New York: Random House, 2003).
18. See Jeffrey Gettleman, "Kenya Kikuyus, Long Dominant, Are Now Routed," New York Times, 7 January 2008;
19. Greg Mills, "Defusing the Ethnic Time-Bomb," International Herald Tribune, 12 February 2008;
20. Stephanie McCrummen, "Ethnic Fault Lines Emerge in Kenya's Post-Election Turmoil," Washington Post, 1 January 2008;
21. Sarah Childress, "Violence in Kenya Exposes Tribes' Widening Wealth Gap," Wall Street Journal, 30 January 2008;
22. and Michela Wrong, "Who Are the Kikuyu? And Why Do Kenya's Other Tribes Resent Them So Much?" Slate, 8 February 2008; available at www.slate. com/id/2184031.
23. East African Statistical Department, African Population of Kenya Colony and Protectorate (Nairobi: 1950). The figures apply to the Rift Valley Province as presently constituted.
24. Republic of Kenya, Kenya Population Census, 1962, Volume II (Nairobi: Ministry of Economic Planning and Development, 1966). Kikuyu made up 27 percent of the Rift Valley population in 1962; a third of Kikuyu had by then migrated out of Central Province.
25. Horace Njuguna Gisemba, "The Lie of the Land: Evictions and Kenya's Crisis," Africa Policy Brief No. 2, Africa Policy Institute, February 2008.
26. Human Rights Watch, "Opposition Officials Help Plan Rift Valley Violence," 24 January 2008; available at http://hrw.org/english/docs/ 2008/01/23/kenya17859.htm.
27. Testimony of Chris Albin-Lackey to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Subcommittee on African Affairs, 7 February 2008.