Seven Questions: What's the Matter with Kenya?
Kenya was supposed to be Africa's development success story. But a disputed election has brought reality crashing down, with blood in the streets and widespread reports of ethnic cleansing. John Githongo, a former corruption czar in the office of President Mwai Kibaki, explains why the West got Kenya so wrong.
The seeds of the current crisis were sown long ago, but the determined weeding took place between August 2004 and December 2007. Inequality is at the heart of it. In a place like Kenya, people can express their anger over economic inequality in regional or ethnic terms when the ruling elites aren't able to give people reasonable confidence that there is (or at least will be) equal access to economic opportunity and justice. Issues that give inequality ... Full Story »
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