... of the official history. In Burundi, a power-sharing deal to end a civil war led to the erasure of memory through deliberate neglect. In Kenya, sites of terrorist violence have been fortified and reopened in the name of resilience—a form of triumphalist amnesia. Yet in each country, citizens practice informal...

...K. Ochieng' Opalo [T]he conflicts surrounding the 2017 elections severely eroded the integrity of democracy in Kenya. © 2018 Current History. All rights reserved. 2018 The Regents of the University of California K. Ochieng'Opalo Kenya presidential elections democracy violence ethnic...

... An international chronology of events in October, country by country, day by day. © 2017 Current History. All rights reserved. 2017 The Regents of the University of California Spain Argentina Austria China Iraq Kenya Japan Turkey Israel Palestinians THE MONTH IN REVIEW...

... Adrienne LeBas Africa Burkina Faso Kenya Zambia term limits political parties elections democracy Barack Obama 169 Executives are able to act with impunity because there is no strong, organized opposition to challenge entrenched incumbents and push them toward a genuine political opening...

... of the University of California Ruth Prince Africa Kenya Uganda HIV/AIDS malaria Ebola disease public health-care systems Gates Foundation World Health Organization International Monetary Fund nongovernmental organizations During the past 10 years, the scaling up of access to lifesaving...

... of California Gabrielle Lynch Kenya Africa Uhuru Kenyatta International Criminal Court postelection violence elections African politics ethnic identity patronage 183 [T]he ICC s intervention did not help prompt a political transition, but was instead effectively framed as an injustice...

... poverty health care education economic growth India Kenya Uganda Peru prevention infrastructure social mobility 20 To make progress toward moving a majority of the world s population into better circumstances, we must adopt a more nuanced view of what constitutes poverty. The Mixed News...

...Ken Menkhaus While transitional politics and the war against Al Shabab are dominating headlines, … a combination of intense pressures is making subsistence livelihoods less and less viable and producing massive, irreversible migrations with enormous long-term implications for Somalia and Kenya. ©...

...Jacqueline M. Klopp [T]he country has bought a short amount of time in which to entrench the new constitution, wield it for reform, and battle ghosts of the past. © 2012 Current History. All rights reserved. 2012 The Regents of the University of California Jacqueline Klopp Kenya...

... The Regents of the University of California fertility Richard Cincotta Africa women's rights AIDS demographics South Africa Botswana Zimbabwe Kenya 184 Fertility decline and a maturing age structure typically prove more indicative of future human development . . . than do shifts toward...

... financial crisis South Africa Kenya Senegal Ghana economics poverty institutions oil 193 Near-term prospects for the region s economies are encouraging when one con- siders the enormous shocks of the recent crisis and the depth of the global down- turn. African Economies New Resilience peteR...

...Frank Holmquist Kenya has successfully run the gauntlet of political transition. But the road ahead is daunting and hazardous. … Yet Kenya has major assets—a vital civil society that may be the key to a successful constitutional reform process over the next few months, … and a population...

...Frank Holmquist; Ayuka Oendo The 1990s saw a great deal of positive political change in Kenya—most notably, relative freedom of speech and organization, [and] regular multiparty elections. … But almost counterintuitively, the regime has shrunk into something of a corrupt and hollow shell...