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Kenya’s deadly mix of ethnicity, power and divisive polls

President Mwai Kibaki with the 2010 Constitution during its promulgation in 2010. [File, Standard]

In an excellent article about two weeks ago in The Standard, Karuti Kanyinga explained clearly the place of ethnicity in Kenya’s politics.

He explained why the leaders of the bigger tribes can hug each other one day, fight bitterly a year or so later, may be fight again before the next elections, form a government together and fight again. And so on and so forth.

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