Young Kenyans drove the protests across the country.
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Kenya’s slow economic growth, large educated youth population and limited job opportunities are some of the factors that gave rise to the protests.
Supreme Court judges at the installation of Kenya’s first woman chief justice, Martha Koome, in 2021.
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Kenya’s confidence crisis is a problem because people need to believe the judiciary is acting independently if it is to play its role.
Kenya’s first president Jomo Kenyatta waves at a crowd.
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Jomo Kenyatta and his successor Daniel arap Moi set the tone for ethnic and authoritarian politics which Kenya has wrestled to free itself from in recent decades.
Mama Ngina Kenyatta.
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You can count on Mama Ngina Kenyattta to defend the family name, in good times and bad.
Supporters at the launch of the Jubilee Party manifesto in Nairobi, Kenya, in June 2017.
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The fluidity of the country’s short-lived coalitions is a major cause of instability in Kenya.
There are fears that Kenya’s debt has been funding mostly government salaries.
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William Ruto is determined to reduce public debt by collecting more taxes to pay for what the country needs.
President William Ruto inspects a guard of honour in Nairobi, Kenya in September 2022.
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The purpose of term limits is to minimise corruption and open the government to new ideas that could solve national problems.
A container ship docks at the Lamu Port in Kenya.
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Mega infrastructure projects entrench existing inequalities when they ignore the economic realities of vulnerable groups.
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Kenya is not unlike any other country where democratic deepening requires a ‘two-steps forward, one-step back’ outlook.
President Uhuru Kenyatta’s supporters celebrate after the ICC dropped charges against him in 2014.
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Research in Kenya finds victims or witnesses to violence are less likely to buy into anti-International Criminal Court political narratives.
Emilio Mwai Kibaki, the recently deceased third president of Kenya
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Kibaki gave Kenya’s higher education sector a free market capitalistic orientation, endearing him to the World Bank and the IMF
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Kibaki’s goals were to expand access to education, and to make universities more efficient and self-sustaining.
Mwai Kibaki.
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He will be remembered as the leader who plunged the country into unmitigated chaos
Simeon Nyachae (right) welcomes President Uhuru Kenyatta to his alma mater, Kisii School in western Kenya, during the institution’s 80th anniversary in 2014.
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Nyachae always served at the intersection of politics and administration. Nevertheless, he was more of a firm manager than a politician.
Former President Mwai Kibaki signs the new constitution in Nairobi in 2010 before former Attorney General Amos Wako.
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Kenya’s constitution-making process has exhibited a gyration pattern that often starts with a belief that governance reforms can rectify the country’s problems, but ends up as a power struggle.
A man carrying a club is seen as the Proud Boys, a right-wing pro-Trump group, gather with their allies in a rally against left-wing Antifa in Portland, Oregon, Sept. 26, 2020.
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Are the conditions ripe in the US for violence before, during or after the presidential election?
Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta (left) shakes hands with the opposition coalition leader Raila Odinga to symbolise a truce in March 2018.
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Even in the most tense and dangerous of moments, the elite has found a way to come back together.
President Jomo Kenyatta, wearing a gold and scarlet robe and leopard cap, is installed as Chancellor of the University of Nairobi in December 1970.
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The crisis at Nairobi University falls within an established pattern of government intervention in universities going back decades
Rafiki was banned from cinemas by the Kenya Film Classification Board for promoting same-sex relationships.
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A Kenyan film director sued her country’s film board and won. Local artists should follow suit and fight censorship.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta (left) with opposition leader Raila Odinga in March.
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Questions are being raised about the Kenyatta and Odinga relationship.