Mahmood Mamdani’s Citizen and subject is a good starting point for conceptualising power and marginalisation in Africa generally and even Kenya specifically. This framework appreciates that the colonial project was both ...

Power is fickle, they say. Its wielders, therefore, wield it fleetingly. It is both potent and fragile. How can something so abstract and intangible be responsible for so much tangibility, such real world effects? ...

Kenya is run by a devolved system of government. This system was reached through historical processes by which the State itself evolved to become what it is today. An understanding of the origin, structure and effectiveness ...

Two variables preoccupy this entire study – decentralisation and inclusion. We hypothesise that there is a positive relationship between decentralisation and the inclusion of various groups; that the more we decentralise ...

The African Peer Review Mechanism Country Review Mission (CRM) observed as follows in relation to marginalisation in Kenya: There exists in Kenya an asymmetric exclusion of different social groups, i.e., various groups ...