The 2022 Kenyan elections

With their upcom­ing pres­i­den­tial elec­tions lat­er this sum­mer, Kenyans con­tin­ue their col­lec­tive effort at strength­en­ing and deep­en­ing their democ­ra­cy. But the moment is also fraught. The August 9 vote is expect­ed to be the most tight­ly con­test­ed in Kenya’s recent his­to­ry, with polit­i­cal ten­sions ris­ing since Kenyan Pres­i­dent Uhu­ru Keny­at­ta shift­ed his sup­port from Deputy…