Introduction: Kenya - A democracy in retreat?

Journal of Contemporary African Studies

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 259-277

  Kagwanja, Peter ^a   Southall, Roger ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Armed militias; Constitutional reform; Diffusion of violence; Ethnic violence in Kenya; Post election violence; Power sharing

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350341686     PISSN: 02589001     EISSN: 14699397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02589000903216930     Document Type: Editorial

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