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Article: Kenya's watershed elections.

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African Business
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December 1, 1997
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Kenya's population will be going to perhaps the most important polls in their history on December 29. What is the significance of the forthcoming election and after.

Is Kenya mature enough, its people forgiving enough, and its politicians pragmatic enough to survive the bitter upcoming election and its unknown aftermath? Is Kenya entering a stage of full democracy and a renewed period of stability? Or will it go the way of the Congo, Somalia, and the Sudan, and be ripped apart by tribal politics?

The run-up to the elections have not been auspicious: political violence and civil unrest, IMF loans suspended due to government corruption, the tourist industry in a ...

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