Wanjiru Gikonyo serves as founder and National Coordinator of The Institute for Social Accountability (TISA), which has been instrumental in advocating for effective devolution and meaningful...
The Elephant speaks to one of Kenya's leading political scientists Prof. Karuti Kanyinga, Director, Institute for Development Studies (IDS), University of Nairobi on the politics of...
Prof. Larry Diamond is a leading contemporary scholar in the field of democracy studies. He is a professor of Sociology and Political Science at Stanford University...
The rise of right-wing populist leaders in many countries across the globe suggests that democracy’s days are numbered. However, as PATRICK GATHARA argues, populism is less...
South East Asia’s Tiger economies have long triggered questions about why and how Kenya was left behind in the post-colonial maendeleo race. Instructively, it is the...
At independence, all of post-colonial Africa promulgated democratic constitutions. In no time, all but one state had reverted to authoritarian rule. Why? In the market of...
Kenya experienced a protracted electoral period after the unprecedented nullification of the August 8 presidential election last year. After the Supreme Court gave its detailed ruling...
Here in this zinc coffin lies a dead person or his legs and his head or even less of him or nothing, for he was a...
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...
Premises In a now commonly known assessment F. Fukuyama, after 1989 change in world systems, predicted the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form...
