The true locus: Finality of presidential results and the national tallying centre

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The true locus: Finality of presidential results and the national tallying centre

AbstractStudying great political personalities matters because it preserves the struggles, values, and compromises that shape a nation’s public institutions. This study examines Raila Amolo Odinga, ...

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Chief Justice Martha Koome’s Sejong Award: A global honour for justice rooted in human dignity

Chief Justice Martha Karambu Koome’s Sejong recognition honours a judicial philosophy rooted in the conviction that law fulfils its purpose only when it protects human dignity. The true measure of a...

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The right to know: The foundation of a free press

The history of press freedom in Kenya has been told through struggles against censorship, journalist detention, publication bans and other methods by which governments have sought to discipline an inc...

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A troublesome teenager: The state of the Constitution of Kenya, 2010, sixteen years later

IntroductionDuring the 2026 commemoration of Katiba Day, which incidentally should be made a national holiday, President William Samoei Ruto made, inter alia, the following remarks. He told the ...

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We the people: A discourse into the concept of the people’s sovereign power as anchored in the Constitution of Kenya

1. AbstractThe Constitution of Kenya, 2010 as often referenced is not just a governance contract; rather, it is a mirror reflecting the social, political and cultural history of the Republic of Kenya ...

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Scapegoating the small trader: The political convenience and the peril of Kenya's foreigner crackdown

IntroductionIn Neill Blomkamp\'s 2009 film District 9, a stranded alien population is confined to a slum on the edge of Johannesburg, blamed by their human neighbours for strained jobs and scarce reso...

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The ghost of Justice Philip Waki: Has Kenya outgrown, or merely institutionalized, state sponsored goonism?

On 15 October 2008, Justice Philip Waki delivered to President Mwai Kibaki and the Panel of Eminent African Personalities a 529 page indictment of Kenya\'s political culture: the Report of the ...

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From Strathmore Law School to Harvard Law School and back: Nyaga Dominic on judgment, institutions and building where it matters

\"Mountains are completely unimpressed by your CV.\" It is an unexpected observation from someone with such a rich CV. Someone whose journey has taken him from Strathmore Law School to Harvar...

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The robed and the damned: When Kenya's judiciary eats its own

There is a certain theatre to the Kenyan judiciary, the wigs, the gravitas, the almost religious invocation of \"justice for all.\" Yet, behind this carefully maintained image of respectabilit...

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