kenya's political history of turmoil

Alex B. Hill | January 12, 2008 - 8:19 pm

Tags: Africa, Barack Obama, colonialism, conflict, democracy, Kenya, Kibaki, Odinga

If it happens in Africa it must just be the primal instinct based in tribalism. The mass media has been covering the situation in Kenya as a near exclusive tribal and ethnic conflict without accounting for the history of Kenya's political turmoil and where ethnicity is put into a colonial context. The crisis in Kenya is not solely ethnic and tribal. It is a crisis based on democracy and fueled by past divisions created by British colonial rule.