Governor Nathif Jama at one of the Garissa county offices. ‘The actualization of county governance required fundamental reorganization of governance systems and structures at the national and county level. The […]

By YASH PAL GHAI and JILL COTTRELL GHAI Background Last week’s article explained the new structure and role of the judiciary, pointing to major constitutional reforms. Today’s topic is how […]

Before the 2010 constitution The purpose of this article is to explain constitutional provisions on the nature and role of the judiciary. Next week’s article will examine the successes and […]

By JILL COTTRELL GHAI and YASH PAL GHAI This is the final article in this Katiba Corner series on values and principles. Last week’s article was a rather depressed one: […]

Lack of internal democracy, mobilising political support along tribal and regional lines, and using violence to intimidate rivals or force certain opinions are some features of some of the political […]

I struggled for weeks after being asked by a man I hold in the highest esteem, Prof Yash Pal Ghai, to write this article on ‘Integrity and the Constitution’. Why? […]

1.Promise of democracy An overarching theme of the 2010 constitution is democracy. Perhaps no other constitution in the world has paid so much attention to democracy. A significant part of […]

Kenya’s new constitution provides for ‘community lands’. Group ranches and trust lands will be vested in communities. But why, some ponder, would modern citizens want to own land as communities? […]