Kenya (Vol 15, 2018)
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The secondary effects of the contentious 2017 general election in Kenya spilled over into the next year as the opposition escalated confrontations with the government only to abruptly call for a ceasefire under the auspices of a handshake between the principals on both sides of the political divide. In the aftermath, the ‘Building Bridges’ initiative was launched as a peacemaking campaign that only served to heighten the entropy within the political system as deputies who had fought passionate rhetorical and physical battles during the election year suddenly had to make sense of the new political dispensation. These peacemaking efforts did little to address the economic uncertainty that followed both the election and the calamitous drought, as both taxes and consumer prices spiralled, and individual spending contracted. Public debt also ballooned as the unfeasibility of the recently commissioned single-gauge railway (sgr) connecting Nairobi to the coastal city of Mombasa finally became evident. At the same time, Kenya’s regional diplomatic efforts were tested through the unexpected political transition in Ethiopia and the continuing crisis in South Sudan.
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Kenya (Vol 15, 2018)
in Africa Yearbook OnlineSearch for other papers by Nanjala Nyabola in
Current site
Google Scholar
(5,709 words)