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Would lowering the voting age to 16 enhance young people’s participation in the political processes that affect their lives?
Kenyan regimes have long adopted brutal policing approaches to sustain themselves in power.
Police brutality thrives in environments where wrongdoing goes unpunished.
Youth unemployment and corruption have helped drive youth dissatisfaction on the continent, with major implications for governments and democratic strength.
Citizens considered a threat to the government’s survival have become targets for enforced disappearances.
In the Absence is a meditative exhibition of large-scale installations created by the Wajukuu Art Project.
A 2010 constitution offered Kenyans economic and social rights that have faded in the face of mounting national debt.
Popular discontent with the government’s performance doesn’t provide sufficient legal grounds to remove a Kenyan president.
The state’s efforts to quell public protests show some worrying similarities to the past.
Significant transitions in Kenya have occurred through the voices of the masses rather than formal political structures.
Kenya is not an isolated case. Twenty-one countries are receiving IMF support.
Reforms have failed to transform an authoritarian police force into a democratic one.
Kenya’s political regimes have used the police to repress opposition and sustain themselves in power.
Kenya’s police have a long history of using excessive force.
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