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Let's stop Kenya from becoming another backsliding democracy

Is Kenya backsliding as well as moving towards post-democracy? [iStockphoto]

Is Kenya running on a backsliding democracy mainly because of the massive corruption in government that is fast eating away the pillars and values of a democracy?

Or, is Kenya actually speeding towards post-democracy, a term coined by British political scientist Colin Crouch to refer to democracies that have a resemblance of institutions of democracy but in effect are much weaker than they ought to be?

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