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Feelings of exclusion still with us, devolution offers best cure

During the "second liberation" crusades in the 1980s and early 1990s, calls for change primarily revolved around the removal of Section 2A which had made Kenya a dejure one-party state.

After President Daniel Moi gave in to the demands and oversaw the removal of this detested blockade to multi-party politics, reformists realised, after the 1992 elections, that changing Kenya required more than conducting multi-party elections. The calls for reform shifted to demands for constitutional change.

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