Things may be a little slow for the next week as we adjust to school year schedules. But it seemed appropriate to record the first anniversary, on August 27, 2011, of the Constitution of Kenya (2010). (pdf file; for a summary of the constitution, see here)
That constitution replaced the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya (1963) (an annotated version that shows the various amendments), which was significantly amended in 1982, 1991, and 2008, had been adopted when Kenya became independent. An attempt to implement a new constitution in 2005 was defeated by a popular referendum (see also the discussion of that process, from a political economy perspective, here, pdf). The Constitution of 2010 was written by a Committee of Experts and released for public discussion in 2009; the draft was revised by a Parliamentary Select Committee in 2010. The revised version was then approved by parliament in April 2010, and submitted to the Kenyan people in a referendum on August 4, 2010. After being approved by over two-thirds of the voters, it was signed into law on August 27, 2010.
For an update (and here) and some reflections, official and otherwise, on the anniversary of the Constitution of 2010, see here and here.
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