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...decades. Rather, the protests are the language of the weak against a regime that rigged itself into power. The violence is motivated by century-old tribal wounds that had been allowed to fester. Second, tribalism is not the brainchild of Kenya's first President; it started with the imperial British driving wedges between people so they could colonize them with ease. It was then perfected by myopic postcolonial leaders who were keener on self-aggrandizement than on improving living conditions for poor folks. Developed countries like the U.S. are not half as enthusiastic about a stable democratic Africa as they...
...both the monarchy and the army, and its princely rulers all descended from the same messianic line. Power and legitimacy radiated outward from the palaces of Kathmandu into a highly hierarchical society in the countryside, where feudal mores and caste discrimination still hold sway. Propped up first by the British, keen to have a client buffer to the north of its imperial heart, and later India, this arrangement rarely had to fear outside interference and had remained roughly intact for more than two centuries...
...street-design principle he quietly pioneered in more than 120 projects across Friesland. By the time he died of cancer last month, Monderman's local lessons had gone global: his notion of shared space has become a buzzword for urban designers all over the world. Ben Hamilton-Baillie, a British traffic and urban-design consultant, says Monderman's legacy goes beyond even that: "Hans took a very mundane profession and made it explore much wider political and social questions about what public space and public life are all about...
...decades. Rather, the protests are the language of the weak against a regime that rigged itself into power. The violence is motivated by century-old tribal wounds that had been allowed to fester. Second, tribalism is not the brainchild of Kenya's first President; it started with the imperial British driving wedges between people so they could colonize them with ease. It was then perfected by myopic postcolonial leaders who were keener on self-aggrandizement than on improving living conditions for poor folks. Developed countries like the U.S. are not half as enthusiastic about a stable democratic Africa as they...
...ethnic clashes have certainly exposed deep grievances over land and other resources. Much of the worst violence has occurred in the Rift Valley, where land ownership has always been politically sensitive. In the colonial era, the region's fertile farmland was reserved for British settlers. Britain sold it off to the newly independent government, which in turn parceled it out to members of the Kikuyu tribe, setting off a pattern of ethnic conflict in the Rift Valley that has persisted for much of Kenya's independent history. Many Kalenjins and others who had once lived there believed - rightly or wrongly...