On the one hand, there is a sense in which the panic-imperative is overwhelming: “Kenya could as well postpone the March elections. Last week’s party primaries made one thing crystal clear. Kenya is ill-prepared to conduct free and fair elections in March…No one and no single institutions, is ready for the elections. Only a goddamned fool would go down a cliff with a car that’s got no brakes. There is a real danger that peace would be seriously disturbed during, and after, the elections,” wrote eminent legal scholar Professor Makau Mutua in the January 27, 2013 edition of the Sunday Nation...
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