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Essay, Jan/Feb 2008
Joel D. Barkan

Barkan's update to his January/February 2004 essay "Kenya After Moi."

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Essay, Jan/Feb 2004
Joel D. Barkan

Kenya's fragile government is threatened by factionalism, economic challenges, and rising crime. To ensure Nairobi's involvement in the war on terrorism, Washington must be sensitive to its domestic needs, recognizing that fledgling democracies can be more difficult to engage than their authoritarian predecessors.

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Essay, Oct 1970
Stanley Meisler

Before the murder of Tom Mboya in July 1969, Kenya politicians could mute and obscure their country's tribal tensions. The tensions, of course, were always there, straining the fragile unity of the new country, but they did not pervade every side of political life. Personal rivalry counted; so did ideology. The assassination changed all that.

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