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Governance and Society · Negative Ethnicity: Commentary3 articles

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From Ethnic Geography to Convivial Democracy

We live convivially. Why do we vote territorially? Applying Paul Gilroy’s idea of convivial culture to Kenya’s constituencies, and asking whether representation should begin from the systems through which Kenyans already share a life.

Eric Omanga8 August 202619 min read

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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.

Eric Omanga1 August 20268 min read

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The Map Is Also a Ballot: Rethinking Kenya’s Constituencies to Defeat Negative Ethnicity

Kenya’s electoral boundaries do more than determine where citizens vote. They influence who politicians must persuade, who is treated as an outsider and whether elections reward civic coalitions or ethnic fortresses.

Eric Omanga31 July 20267 min read

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