Transmutation of Politics in Gem Constituency, Siaya County (Kenya)

Dr. Antony Odhiambo Owak
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Dr. Antony Odhiambo Owak: Jaramogi Oginga Odinga, Kisumu, Kenya

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2025, vol. 9, issue 2, 699-711

Abstract: Post-Colonial Kenya’s political composition and structure welcomed diversified philosophies and policies. It was a trial and error because Kenya was not mature enough to govern itself politically. It is clear that between 1920 when Kenya became one of the British Colonies and 1963 when Kenya became a Republic barely forty-three years. The political morphology was based on regions where the active political actors hailed from. This formation was affected by the boundary structures that had been mapped by the colonialists. It is obvious that due rush for independence Kenyans was compelled to adopt them as they were. The second challenge that emerged immediately after independence was the merging of communities together either at the province, district, constituency, or location. The other elephant in the room was the emergence of tribalism which affected mostly the metropolitan regions.

Date: 2025
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