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

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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