Understanding the economic foundations of ongoing protests in Kenya

Popular discontent, intra-elite distributive politics, and possible ways forward

Nearly all of An Africanist Perspective is free content. My goal here is to think through important structural issues that are not in the headlines with readers from Dakar, to Abuja, to Dar es Salaam. In addition, there is revealed demand for content on issues in the headlines — like what I cover in this post. Moving forward, these “current affairs” pos…