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Lack of ideology, clientelism and ignorance characterize Kenya’s politics

Each polity has its own system of governance and administration that it’s largely defined by the electorate. Though various systems of governance; democracy, autocracy, tyrannical, monarchical, are applied in several states, they are just similar but not the same.

In Kenya, the political system and hence the governance model has experienced notable changes, both positive and negative, since the dawn of independence in 1963. Fast forward, the Kenyan political model can be viewed as an agglomeration of three layers; politics that is non-ideological, elections based on clientelism and a pool of passionately ignorant citizens.

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