Living Constituency Commons
3 published articles
Commentary · 2026-09-11
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.
Commentary · 2026-08-23
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.
Commentary · 2026-08-08
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.