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Stephen N. Ndegwa

Stephen N. Ndegwa is associate professor of government and directs the Program on Civil Society and Governance in Africa at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. He is editor of A Decade of Democracy in Africa (2001) and has published widely on African and Kenyan politics.

July 2003, Volume 14, Issue 3

Kenya: Third Time Lucky?

After falling short in 1992 and 1997, Kenya’s large but fractious opposition coalition swept to victory at the polls in 2002. Transition has arrived, but can democratic transformation follow?