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Governance and Society · Electoral Politics: Commentary2 articles

Governance and SocietyCommentary

The Candidate Is Also a Map: Sifuna and the Test of a Civic Movement

Citizen TV’s The Explainer presented Edwin Sifuna as Kenya’s “man of the moment.” But the more important question is whether his political moment can become a civic movement, one capable of organising citizens around shared values and problems rather than merely rearranging Kenya’s familiar ethnic blocs.

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