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Bomas of Kenya before the pronouncement of the Presidential election results on August 13, 2022. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]
The election tallying fiasco at Bomas of Kenya last year is now turning to gaslighting. I am not sure who between the government and the opposition is gaslighting the other.
Gaslighting is a manipulative behaviour in which an offender makes the victim doubt self. The aim is to push the victim to own up as the real aggressor. An example of a gaslighting process is DARVO which stands for deny, attack, reverse the place of the victim and offender. Although this is mostly used in interpersonal abuses including the ones of sexual nature, gaslighting can be seen in the Kenya political narratives of 'victimhood' in last year's presidential election outcome.
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