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Tagged “Living Constituency Commons”3 articles

Governance and SocietyCommentary

Tribal Numbers: Count Us, Then Account to Us

Regional registration totals describe where registered voters live. They do not establish ethnic voting blocs or a leader’s authority to deliver those votes. Age, gender and livelihoods reveal circumstances representation should address.

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Governance and SocietyCommentary

Mzungu Research vs Mwafrika Research: Who Holds the Knowledge?

A doctoral defence and a jua kali engine on the same morning. Formal research makes knowledge contestable; apprenticeship makes it consequential. Africa’s opportunity is not to crown one laboratory and dismiss the other, but to build institutions where footnote and fingerprint can interrogate each other.

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Governance and SocietyCommentary

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.

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