Illegitimate contradictions: The construction of centralisation, exclusion and marginalisation in the Kenyan State

Abstract

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? The choices flowing from power wielding create categories of being and knowledge. These ontologies and epistemologies define the existence of individuals, their communities, their nostalgic past and the hazy