Healing the wound : personal narratives about the 2007 post-election violence in Kenya /

Healing the wound : personal narratives about the 2007 post-election violence in Kenya /

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Imprint:Nairobi : Twaweza Communications, ©2009.
Description:1 online resource (318 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Subject:
Elections -- Corrupt practices -- Kenya.
Ethnic conflict -- Kenya.
Political violence -- Kenya.
Elections -- Corrupt practices.
Ethnic conflict.
Politics and government
Political violence.
Kenya -- Politics and government -- 2002-
Kenya.
Electronic book.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11220802
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Other authors / contributors:Njogu, Kimani.
ISBN:996672446X
9789966724465
9789966028143
9966028145
9789966724458
9966724451
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Print version record.
Summary:The narratives collected by Twaweza Communications in this volume tell yet another side of the story about the violence that engulfed Kenya towards the end of 2007 and the beginning of 2008. The narratives are part of a Daraja Initiative involving media monitoring, reflections and documentation of the traumatic post-election violence period often associated with the contested presidential results of 2007. The goal of the project is to contribute to the protection of constitutional rights of all Kenyans and to the development of a just and democratic country. Because violent conflicts constitute ruptures and continuities and are often preceded by tensions over the uncomfortable co-existence of political, economic, social and cultural systems and relations of power as well as what is perceived as valuable, mobilisation for violence is driven by narratives of the legality and correctness of action such that notions of history, justice and memory are functions of narrative construction, power and authority. Narratives of violent conflict, such as happened in Kenya, are not absolute: they are contested, contradictory and incomplete. But they must be told so that the multiple voices from the citizens are heard.
Other form:Print version: Healing the wound. Nairobi : Twaweza Communications, ©2009

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