Kenia · Analyse und Investigativ, Ostafrika
The post-election violence of 2007-08 demonstrated what goons and criminal gangs can do in six weeks with one disputed count. The recruits exist in surplus now and are already organised into more than a hundred gangs, territorial by nature.
Power is never content to organize violence. It must also organize the language through which violence is remembered.
Kenya’s leaders keep importing the institutional artefacts of high-trust societies while leaving behind the trust that makes those artefacts work.