Entrenching the Right to Participate in Government in Kenya's Constitutional Order

Some Viable Lessons from the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights

Bibliographic Data

ID16766726
AuthorsMorris Kiwinda Mbondenyi (corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume55
Issue1
Pages30-58
Publication date2011-04-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of African Law (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0221-8553 • E-ISSN: 1464-3731
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/s0021855311000027
OpenAlexW2127726401
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

A practice of frequent constitutional amendments started shortly after Kenya attained her independence in 1963. Consequently, the country has witnessed a confusion of systems of governance, ranging from single-party autocracy to virtual multi-party democracy, which have served to endorse the chronic condition of human rights violations in the country. In the process of such experimentation, Kenyans have unabatedly been denied the enjoyment of many of their fundamental rights and freedoms, including the right to participate in their government. This article analyses Kenya's constitutional order with the intention of highlighting the extent to which the country's citizens have been denied the right to participate in their government. Drawing inspiration from the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, the article recommends ways in which this right could be entrenched in the country's constitutional order

Bill of rights · Business · Charter · Constitution · Constitutional right · Democracy · Fundamental rights · Government (linguistics) · Human rights · Independence (probability theory) · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Human Rights and Development · International Law and Human Rights · Law

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