At its heart, the BBI Judgment is about power, and the judges in the majority believe that the constitution acts as a barrier against the concentration...
On May 14th the Kenyan High Court declared the Constitutional Amendment Bill 2021 unconstitutional. The proponent moved to the Court of Appeal who affirmed the decision...
It is now 11 years since we voted in the current Constitution. Its implementation has been a case of hits and misses. Now a new wind...
The IEBC is a Fourth Branch institution that – as the name suggests – is responsible for supervising elections and referenda, and for related matters such...
On 20 August 2021, a seven-judge bench of the Kenyan Court of Appeal delivered judgment in a set of consolidated cases known as the “BBI Appeals”....
The process of popular initiative must be guarded from abuse. A State actor, who is otherwise barred from initiating a popular initiative, cannot originate a proposal...
A way of rebuilding the basis of the nation must be found because only then can the formation of loyalty and service to each other that...
Maasai leaders have presented the BBI Taskforce with demands that lands stolen in colonial times and post-1963 “revert” to the Maa Nation. But what does “reversion”...
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (HBS) Nairobi Office, in collaboration with the Elephant, cordially invite you to the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Judgement Series. This new series seeks to interrogate...
For the first time in post-independence Kenya, there is a sense of unity among Kenyans drawn from humble beginnings irrespective of their tribe. The hustler nation...
It is a year to the next general elections and second presidential transition under the 2010 constitution. How have we fared? Can the counties do better?...
It is an unacknowledged fact that, in Kenya’s relatively short political history, if one were to speak of the BBI report and launch as a moment,...
