Undercurrents of Ethnic Conflicts in KenyaThis book analyses the ethnic conflict that engulfed Kenya s Rift Valley Province at the turn of the nineties when multi-party democratic politics were being reintroduced in the country. Its central thesis is that ethnic conflict in the country then was a function of several issues, among them ethnocentrism, politics, the land question and criminal behaviour in certain circles. Both its determinants and consequences are demographic, economic, political and socio-cultural, implying the risks involved in oversimplifying issues. |
Contents
Evidence and Conceptual | 3 |
A Conceptual Framework for Analysing Determinants of Conflict 22 | 22 |
Historical and Social Background | 35 |
GeographicalPopulation Regions and Administrative Units of Kenya | 39 |
Ethnic Groups and Names in Kenya 1978 | 43 |
Administrative Boundaries of Kenya 1924 | 45 |
Administrative Units of Kenya 1929 | 47 |
Administrative Boundaries of Kenya 1961 | 48 |
Exogenous Determinants of Conflict | 101 |
National Historical Political and Demographic | 108 |
Ethnic Composition of Major InMigration Provinces | 124 |
Number of Urban Centres and the Distribution | 131 |
A Recipe for Ethnic | 132 |
Kenyas Actual and Potential Settlement Areas Forests and Their Utility | 137 |
Geographical and Functional Characteristics of | 139 |
Settlement Schemes in the Kenya Highlands | 143 |
Kenya Administrative Boundaries 1998 | 49 |
Population and Ethnic Arithmetic | 53 |
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Kenya Population Distribution 1989 Census | 60 |
Distribution of Ethnic Groups and Political Party | 63 |
Evidence and Pattern of Ethnic Conflicts in Kenya | 70 |
Media Coverage of Ethnic Clashes in Kenya | 72 |
Areas of Conflicts in Kenya 19911994 | 80 |
Chronology of Ethnic Clashes in Kenya and Attendant | 90 |
Major Components of the Kenyan Land Settlement | 150 |
Settlement Schemes Hectarage Settled Number | 156 |
Consequences of Conflict | 173 |
A Conceptual Framework for Analysing the Consequences of Conflict | 175 |
The Search for Durable Solutions | 186 |
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A Nature and Scope of Conflicts in Selected SSA Countries | 219 |
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