Wangui Kimari and Zoltán Glück

Wangui Kimari is the participatory action research coordinator for the Mathare Social Justice Centre (MSJC) Zoltán Glück received research funding from the Social Science Research Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, Fulbright IIE, and the African Cities Research Consortium. The views expressed in this article are solely the authors' and do not represent the positions of any of these funding organizations.

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Kenya’s Police Are Violent and Unaccountable – Should They Be Abolished?

After Kenya’s independence in 1963, the police were “Africanised” but retained much of their colonial character. Under Daniel arap Moi’s authoritarian regime (1978-2002), the police continued...

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Wangui Kimari and Zoltán Glück

Kenya’s Police Are Violent and Unaccountable – Should They Be Abolished?

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