Weapons of mass destruction: Land, ethnicity and the 2007 elections in Kenya

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 305-324

  Rutten, Marcel ^a   Owuor, Sam ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Conflict; Ethnic clientism; Ethnicity; Land; Stolen election; Violence

Indexed keywords

CLIENTELISM; DEMOCRACY; ELECTION; ETHNIC CONFLICT; ETHNICITY; PARTY POLITICS; POLITICAL CHANGE; POLITICAL CONFLICT; VIOLENCE; WEAPON;

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

EID: 70350303854     PISSN: 02589001     EISSN: 14699397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02589000903118904     Document Type: Article

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