particular, multi-dimensional settings in which they occur. The current emphasis on...
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..., for example, and detentions without trial have been legalized. The secret ballot for popular elections has been replaced with a “queuing” system where voters are required to stand in line behind a photo of their candidate. With only one legal party, candidates are hand-picked by the leadership, and dissent is dealt with by threats of expulsion from the party and further reprisal.
With regard to social and economic rights, medicine and education are state-subsidized in Kenya. Many banks and industries are state-owned *920 and thus instrumental in providing employment and financial opportunities. Yet rights in these areas have also been eroded, according to Kuria. Jobs and property rights are infringed. Business licences are arbitrarily denied. Board members of public companies owning agricultural land are replaced, and land is divided selectively among shareholders. Land ownership is also threatened through governmental interference with payment for the products of cooperative societies and illegal taxation in the form of “voluntary contributions.”16 As a result of these conditions, the legitimacy of the government has been called into question to the point of confrontational public protest. A presidential commission appointed in 1990 has been evaluating the Kenyan Constitution; its recommendations are currently under review by the government.