Kenya: Post-Crisis Agendas (from Africa Focus)
20 March 2008AfricaFocus Bulletin
Mar 20, 2008 (080320)
Editor’s Note
“The Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation between the political parties provides Kenya’s leaders with a historic opportunity to step back from the brink and to reform and establish institutions that can help build long-term stability. … However, challenges remain in ensuring that the institutions created actually deliver accountability for recent [...]
ACAS Press Statement on the Crisis in Kenya
5 January 2008Association of Concerned Africa Scholars
January 5, 2008
The Association of Concerned Africa Scholars (ACAS), an organization of United States-based academics and activists, today rejected superficial and misleading popular and media portrayals of the post-electoral violence in Kenya as “tribal.”
We are equally concerned about the role of the U.S. government — far from a neutral player — [...]
U.S. Military Activities in Kenya
5 January 2008By Daniel Volman
January 5, 2008
Now that President George Bush’s special envoy to the Kenyan crisis, Jendayi Fraser (US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs) has admitted that the elections in Kenya were seriously flawed (a polite way of saying they are fraudulent) and ordered President Mwai Kibaki to meet the opposition leader, Raile Odinga, [...]
Action Alert : Ngugi and Njeeri Wa Thiongo Wa Ngugi
14 January 2005Association of Concerned African Scholars
January 14, 2005
Dear Friends,
As you may already know, world renowned Kenyan playwright, novelist and social critic Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and his wife Njeeri Wa Ngugi were brutally attacked on August 11, 2003 in an apartment in Nairobi, Kenya. Ngugi was severely beaten and burned with cigarettes, and his wife, Njeeri, was [...]
The Case Against the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act
8 March 1998Association of Concerned Africa Scholars
March 8, 1998
The Case Against the Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (H.R. 1432)
Since the end of the Cold War US policy toward Africa has drifted and become increasingly erratic. ACAS thus welcomes new thinking and initiatives. Unfortunately our analysis suggests that the new Africa Growth and Opportunity Act does not represent [...]