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The political and social order that followed the radical shift to multiparty politics in Kenya in... more The political and social order that followed the radical shift to multiparty politics in Kenya in 1992 gave rise to diverse responses to amplification of ethnic politics and regionalization alliances, hence creating new dimension in ethnic relations. And especially ethnicitization of politics was at the forefront in both the contestation of the status quo and in the configuration of emerging socio-political spaces and identities. By 2002, the year of the election that brought Mwai Kibaki to power and ended Daniel Arap Moi's twenty four years grip on power, numerous focuses were on ethnicitization of politics deeply rooted in acceleration for territorialization of ethnicity. Politicians came to treat their constituencies as ethnic territories and to behave like ethnic leaders. The change of government in December 2002 did not bring the change people hoped for. Ethnic clientelism remained the key tool of politics. One immediate consequence of this was the construction of imagined ethnic identity of difference and the consolidation of ethnic identities through amplification of ethnic politics. This new development has now responded more directly to the political scenario in the national space, a scenario that was itself marked by increasing organization access to political power and resources along ethnic lines. This paper will address among other issues how the emergence of this new ethnic territorialization of the local space and of power brokering has challenged the nation-state's governance of the public domain.

The political and social order that followed the radical shift to multiparty politics in Kenya in... more The political and social order that followed the radical shift to multiparty politics in Kenya in 1992 gave rise to diverse responses to amplification of ethnic politics and regionalization alliances, hence creating new dimension in ethnic relations. And especially ethnicitization of politics was at the forefront in both the contestation of the status quo and in the configuration of emerging socio-political spaces and identities. By 2002, the year of the election that brought Mwai Kibaki to power and ended Daniel Arap Moi's twenty four years grip on power, numerous focuses were on ethnicitization of politics deeply rooted in acceleration for territorialization of ethnicity. Politicians came to treat their constituencies as ethnic territories and to behave like ethnic leaders. The change of government in December 2002 did not bring the change people hoped for. Ethnic clientelism remained the key tool of politics. One immediate consequence of this was the construction of imagined ethnic identity of difference and the consolidation of ethnic identities through amplification of ethnic politics. This new development has now responded more directly to the political scenario in the national space, a scenario that was itself marked by increasing organization access to political power and resources along ethnic lines. This paper will address among other issues how the emergence of this new ethnic territorialization of the local space and of power brokering has challenged the nation-state's governance of the public domain.

The political and social order that followed the radical shift to multiparty politics in Kenya in... more The political and social order that followed the radical shift to multiparty politics in Kenya in 1992 gave rise to diverse responses to amplification of ethnic politics and regionalization alliances, hence creating new dimension in ethnic relations. And especially ethnicitization of politics was at the forefront in both the contestation of the status quo and in the configuration of emerging socio-political spaces and identities. By 2002, the year of the election that brought Mwai Kibaki to power and ended Daniel Arap Moi's twenty four years grip on power, numerous focuses were on ethnicitization of politics deeply rooted in acceleration for territorialization of ethnicity. Politicians came to treat their constituencies as ethnic territories and to behave like ethnic leaders. The change of government in December 2002 did not bring the change people hoped for. Ethnic clientelism remained the key tool of politics. One immediate consequence of this was the construction of imagined ethnic identity of difference and the consolidation of ethnic identities through amplification of ethnic politics. This new development has now responded more directly to the political scenario in the national space, a scenario that was itself marked by increasing organization access to political power and resources along ethnic lines. This paper will address among other issues how the emergence of this new ethnic territorialization of the local space and of power brokering has challenged the nation-state's governance of the public domain.

The political and social order that followed the radical shift to multiparty politics in Kenya in... more The political and social order that followed the radical shift to multiparty politics in Kenya in 1992 gave rise to diverse responses to amplification of ethnic politics and regionalization alliances, hence creating new dimension in ethnic relations. And especially ethnicitization of politics was at the forefront in both the contestation of the status quo and in the configuration of emerging socio-political spaces and identities. By 2002, the year of the election that brought Mwai Kibaki to power and ended Daniel Arap Moi's twenty four years grip on power, numerous focuses were on ethnicitization of politics deeply rooted in acceleration for territorialization of ethnicity. Politicians came to treat their constituencies as ethnic territories and to behave like ethnic leaders. The change of government in December 2002 did not bring the change people hoped for. Ethnic clientelism remained the key tool of politics. One immediate consequence of this was the construction of imagined ethnic identity of difference and the consolidation of ethnic identities through amplification of ethnic politics. This new development has now responded more directly to the political scenario in the national space, a scenario that was itself marked by increasing organization access to political power and resources along ethnic lines. This paper will address among other issues how the emergence of this new ethnic territorialization of the local space and of power brokering has challenged the nation-state's governance of the public domain.

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