Ethnic politics and post-election violence of 2007/8 in Kenya

A, Opondo P.

doi:10.5897/ajhc2013.0146

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“…Africa is conflict ridden and often experience political unrest following the nature of emergence or creation of states by colonial forces, which never cared to consider certain fundamentals before yoking different incompatible and highly parallel ethno-religious people together as states (Kendhammer 2014; Ojo 2014; Opondo 2014; Ikeanyibe 2017). This is unlike how states emerged in Europe, which was based on consensus of the people through referendum.…”

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Global Capitalism and the Underdevelopment of African Political Economy: Where Will Our Help Come From?

Onah

Amujiri

2023

Insight on Africa

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The global capitalist system created and sustained by the West has eaten deep into the global economy, serving as the ideological and economic hegemony upon which it revolves. Against this backdrop, this article explores the trends and partners of accumulation in the global political economy of capitalism and interrogates how it benefits the West and oppresses Africa through forced integration and unequal power relations. A key finding of the analysis is that global integration of the world economy that runs on capitalism has not benefited Africa significantly, as claimed by capitalist bourgeoisie scholars.

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Global Capitalism and the Underdevelopment of African Political Economy: Where Will Our Help Come From?

Onah

Amujiri

2023

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“…The consequence of this as observed by Eyerman (, p. 38) is that “the break with tradition and the rural community meant the break with established identity‐giving authority.” This leads to the enthronement of ethnicity and other communal or social stereotypes and cleavages, which scholars (Kendhammer, ; Mulinge & Lesetedi, ; Opondo, ) acknowledge, lead to social polarization and entrenched interest groups, politics of exclusion, and the reinforcement of ethnic identity that increases the reality of conflicts. Few examples below portray the effect of this poor state identity and poly‐communal tendencies on public administration in some African countries.…”

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Bureaucratization and administrative development in Africa: A reading of Riggs' theory of prismatic society

Ikeanyibe

2017

Public Admin & Development

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Summary Poor bureaucratization in prismatic (transitional) societies is attributed to malintegration of the ideal bureaucratic principles with subsisting traditional sociocultural features by Fred Riggs. Riggs has been severely criticized on many fronts, yet aspects of his theory remain relevant towards explaining persistent poor administrative behaviour in most African countries. This article applies Riggs' notion of poly‐communalism and poly‐normativism to explain the contribution of low state identity to persistent poor administrative behaviour in Africa. Historical institutionalism theory is also used to attempt at resolving the challenge of equilibrium for which Riggs' theory is commonly criticized. The author avers that communalism, a value that supports group interest in a traditional society, subsists in most poly‐communal transitional African countries, leading to distortions in administrative behaviour. A good number of African countries were mobilized through colonialism but poorly assimilated, thus lacking strong common state identity, which leads to ineffective public administration. The article suggests that resolving the trapping of the administrative system in Africa requires resolving the challenge of poly‐communalism and lack of common identity among a state population.

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“…The violence can be prior, during or even after elections and is used to intimidate voters and electoral officers amongst other victims. While the main purpose for electoral violence is the manipulation of the electoral system to favour particular candidates or political parties through the use of violence, various forms of violence are usually employed by unpopular candidates with the aim of hijacking the electoral process to their favour (Opondo, 2014).…”

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A Quantitative Analysis of the Health, Education and Security Perspectives of Election-Related Violence in Nigeria

Adigwe¹,

Ajoku²

2022

IJSMR

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Election Related Violence (ERV) constitutes one of the major challenges facing democracies around the world and is mostly common among developing countries with young democracies, these countries are often left with debilitating effects from ERV. While there are many dimensions of ERV, this quantitative study explores the health, education and security perspectives of ERV. A total of 500 questionnaires were administered and 287 questionnaires were received, female participants constituted the minority (32%) while participants within the age bracket of 31-40 made up over a third (38%) of the respondents, furthermore, majority (38%) of the respondents possessed a Bachelor’s degree while a strong majority of the respondents (76%) were senior civil servants between the grade levels of seven to fourteen. Over a third (40%) of the respondents agreed that various types of trauma were the most common health challenges of those who experienced ERV. Another majority (60%) of the respondents believe that the absence of viable political education among the masses was largely responsible for ERV. Over a third (40%) of the respondents opined that the security lapses from security agents was one of the key factors responsible for ERV. The results drawn from the study indicated that ERV in Nigeria may have been amplified by poor voter education among the masses and shortfalls in the provision of adequate security structure employed for the purpose of the peaceful conduct of elections, the study also showed that there was a dearth of adequate health policies that would have helped address the attendant health related aftereffects of ERV. This study provides insights on the health, education and security perspectives of ERV. This could help in creating a deeper understanding of the ERV phenomenon as well as the development of strategies and policies that could lead to the effective control of ERV in areas where it is prevalent.

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Ethnic politics and post-election violence of 2007/8 in Kenya

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Global Capitalism and the Underdevelopment of African Political Economy: Where Will Our Help Come From?

Global Capitalism and the Underdevelopment of African Political Economy: Where Will Our Help Come From?

Bureaucratization and administrative development in Africa: A reading of Riggs' theory of prismatic society

A Quantitative Analysis of the Health, Education and Security Perspectives of Election-Related Violence in Nigeria

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