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Kenya's Constitutional Test

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by  |  on August 3rd, 2010  |  0 comments

Tomorrow (Wednesday) Kenya will face a huge test of its fragile democratic systems as the country will go to the polls for a referendum on the country’s proposed new constitution. Political, religious, and civil society leaders have been calling for calm in the run-up to the voting.  The violence that followed Kenya’s December 2007 elections shook the country to its core, and this is the most public test yet of whatever reconciliation the country has undertaken.

 

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Derek Catsam
Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s, the Freedom Rides, and South African resistance politics in the 1980s. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He is also a lifelong sports fan, with the Boston Red Sox as his first true love. He was one of about three dozen people to write books about the 2004 World Champion Red Sox, and the result is Bleeding Red: A Red Sox Fan's Diary of the 2004 Season. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

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Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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