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Old habits die hard: How colonial blues have impeded constitutionalism in Kenya

President Mwai Kibaki signs the new constitution into law at a public function witnessed by the nation at Uhuru Park, Nairobi. Standing by is Attorney General Amos Wako Promulgation of Kenyan Constitution 2010 at Uhuru Park, 27 August 2010.[FILE/Standard]

The constitutional story in Kenya is a profile of serial piracy and betrayal by the national Executive. Daniel Branch recalls Jaramogi Oginga Odinga’s cynicism towards the Constitution in 1964. Parliament was then making the first amendment to the independence Constitution.

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