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Infrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya

Ken Opalo
Capsule Review

A Trumpian Policy for Africa

Ken Opalo
Snapshot

America’s Dilemma in Kenya

Michelle Gavin
Snapshot

Multiethnic Democracy: The Logic of Elections and Policymaking in Kenya

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Beyond the Sand and Sea: One Family’s Quest for a Country to Call Home

Simon Turner
Capsule Review

Foreign Affairs LIVE With Ty McCormick

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Political Violence in Kenya: Land, Elections, and Claim-Making

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Why Kenyans Are Protesting Police Brutality at Home and Abroad

Nanjala Nyabola
Snapshot

Whose Agency: The Politics and Practice of Kenya’s HIV-Prevention NGOs

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Give and Take: Developmental Foreign Aid and the Pharmaceutical Industry in East Africa

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

The Climate Debt

Mohamed Adow
Comment

Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Digital Democracy, Analogue Politics: How the Internet Era Is Transforming Politics in Kenya

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

The Kenyan TJRC: An Outsider’s View From the Inside

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Money for Votes: The Causes and Consequences of Electoral Clientelism in Africa

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Why Kenya's Supreme Court Can't Solve the Country's Electoral Crisis

Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch, Justin Willis
Snapshot

Kenya’s Electoral Impasse

Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch, Justin Willis
Snapshot

Were the Kenyan Elections Conducted Successfully?

Nic Cheeseman, Gabrielle Lynch, Justin Willis
Snapshot

The Softer Side of Jihad

Joshua Meservey
Snapshot

Terrorist Tug-of-War

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
Snapshot

From a Curse to a Blessing

Guillaume Arditti
Snapshot

Crime and Punishment in Kenya

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
Snapshot

Sermonizing With Al Shabab

Joshua Meservey
Snapshot

Kenya’s Own Worst Enemy

Paul Hidalgo
Snapshot

Terrorist Turf Wars

Joshua Meservey
Snapshot

False Security in Kenya

Joshua Meservey
Snapshot

ICC on Trial

Kip Hale
Snapshot

Al Shabab’s Last Stand?

Paul Hidalgo
Snapshot

The Rise of Kenya’s New Elite

David P. Sandgren
Letter From

Let There Be Light

Todd Moss, Benjamin Leo
Snapshot

Kenya Divided

Paul Hidalgo
Snapshot

Kenya’s Worst Enemy

Paul Hidalgo
Snapshot

Quenching Kenya

Brahma Chellaney
Snapshot

Behind Al Shabab’s Latest Attack

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
Postscript

What to Read on Kenyan Politics

Joel D. Barkan
Reading List

Unhealthy Practice

Leonard S. Rubenstein
Snapshot

Handicapping the Kenyan Election

Bronwyn Bruton
Snapshot

Jihad Comes to Kenya

Alexander Meleagrou-Hitchens
Snapshot

The Splintering of Al Shabaab

Bronwyn Bruton, J. Peter Pham
Snapshot

Why Kenya Invaded Somalia

Daniel Branch
Snapshot

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on the Famine in Somalia

Mwai Kibaki
Letter From

Somalia's Starvation

Ken Menkhaus
Snapshot

Securing Justice in Kenya

Albert Muriuki
Letter to the Editor

Turning the Corner in Kenya

Joel D. Barkan, Makau Mutua
Snapshot

Fear and Loathing in Nairobi

John Githongo
Comment

Kenya's Quest for Democracy: Taming Leviathan

Nicolas van de Walle
Capsule Review

Kenya's Great Rift

Joel D. Barkan
Essay

Kenya After Moi

Joel D. Barkan
Essay

Mau Mau and Nationhood: Arms, Authority, and Narration

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Islam and Politics in Kenya

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Kenya Shadow Justice

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Facing Mount Kenya: The Tribal Life of the Gikuyu

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

The Rise of a Party State in Kenya: From "Harambee" to "Nayayo!"

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Kenya: Taking Liberties

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

African Successes: Four Public Managers Of Kenyan Rural Development

Gail M. Gerhart
Capsule Review

Maasai Days

William Diebold, Jr.
Capsule Review

Africa in Economic Crisis

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
Capsule Review

Tribal Politics Harass Kenya

Stanley Meisler
Essay

The New Africa

Guy Hunter
Essay

Man and Myth in Political Africa

Russell Warren Howe
Essay

The White Settler's Role in Kenya

M. F. Hill
Essay

Kenya, the Land and Mau Mau

Derwent Whittlesey
Essay

Crowded Countries and Empty Spaces

Alexander M. Carr-Saunders
Essay

Power Politics and the Peace Machinery

Hamilton Fish Armstrong
Essay

Native Policy in East Africa

Frederick D. Lugard
Essay

The Indian Question in Kenya

Stanley Rice
Essay
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