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? […]

In considering the role of civil society in the implementation of the constitution, it is important to appreciate civil society’s contribution in the wider democratisation process… But first we need […]

Some members of the Constitution Kenya Review Commission were concerned that the kind of transformative constitution that its terms of reference required – and the public wanted – would be […]