As in 2013 and 2017, the fate of Kenya’s presidential election has been placed in the hands of the Supreme Court.
Gabrielle Lynch provides a radical analysis of the mechanisms of transitional justice. Looking at the case of Kenya, Lynch argues that truth commissions which hope to...
Reforms have failed to transform the Kenyan police force from one that is driven by a colonial logic of control to one of service to the...
The anger fostered by the response of the police to protests in 2017 has not been addressed by the “handshake”. There is a growing sense amongst...
Six years later, writes GABRIELLE LYNCH, little progress has been made on Kenya’s Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) despite on the gross injustices and abuses...
More than five years after it was handed over to President Uhuru Kenyatta, the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission’s final report remains buried in the engineered...
For strongmen seeking office, the facade of competitive elections provides an important reputational asset. For the others facing real competition, procuring the services of Western spin...