Examines Kenya’s state building, identity politics, and violence as a tools of political disorganization

Aims to show how multiparty politics has been hijacked by an ethically inclined group of political elites for self-serving ends

Illuminates dexterity by a minority plutocracy in maintaining power and state resources to the exclusion of the populace

Highlights reforms to ensure justice, inclusive politics, state stability and democratization in Kenya 

Westen K. Shilaho is National Research Foundation Scarce Skills Research Fellow, and South African Research Chair in African Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.