Constitution-making in Kenya: an African appraisal
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Constitution-Making
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P L, Agweli Onalo
Transafrica Press
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Frankfurt am Main
CONTENTS
A Tribute and In Memoriam ii
Dedication vi
Foreword vii
Preface viii
Acknowledgements • xvii
Abbreviations and Acronyms xxii
The Essence of a Constitution 1
Flexible and Rigid Constitutions 5
A Constitution as the Basic Law 10
Constitutional Democracy 13
Majority Rule and Minority Rights IS
A Democratic Society 16
The Pillars of Democracy 17
The Culture of Democracy 17
Civic Culture 17
Democracy and Education 18
Conflict, Compromise and Consensus 19
Legal and Political Perspectives 22
Decolonization and Independence 22
The Second Liberation 23
Democracy and Power 26
The Rivalry 27
Constitutionalism 29
Decolonization and the Legal Opposition 32
Developments in Constitution-Making 35
Conditionalities for Self-Government 40
Exclusion of Mbiyu Koinange and Jomo Kenyatta at
the 1960 Lancaster House Conference 42
Introductory Remarks at the I960 Conference 44
Statement by the Governor of Kenya 47
The Lancaster House Conferences 50
The First Conference 50
Aims 51
The Safeguards 60
A Bill of Rights 61
Special Procedure for Constitutional Change 62
A Second Chamber : 63
The Courts of Law V 64
The 2nd and 3rd Lancaster House Conferences 65
The Search for Relevance 71
Law, Sovereignty and the Supremacy of the Constitution - 78
The Concept of Law : 78
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Sources of Kenya Law 82
Sovereignty : 85
Terms 85
The Story of Rome as a Republic 88
The Story of the USA as a Republic 88
Intent of the American Founding Fathers 90
20th Century Changes in Constitution Thinking 92
Democracy as a Means to an End 95
Kenyan Republican Status 97
The Kenyan Oaths of Allegiance 99
The Chapters of the Constitution 100
Preamble 102
5 Constitutional Change in Kenya 104
A Parliamentary or a Presidential System 105
The Difference 106
Representatives 107
Parliaments and Presidents 108
The Indian Experience 110
Introduction 110
Presidential Democracy 112
• City Level 115
State Level 116
Degeneration into Dictatorship 117
Weaknesses in Presidential Systems 118
Corruption 118
The Common Man vis-a-vis Presidential Democracy 120
The Effect of Devolution 120
The Model of Presidential Democracy favoured by
the Indian Forum 121
The Kenyan Option 123
Checks and Balances 125
Devolution and the Doctrine of Subsidiarity • 127
The Provincial Administration 130
Executive Supremacy 133
Presidential Directives and Constitutionalism 137
Correcting Presidential Absolutism 141
Curtailing Presidential Authoritarianism in Africa 141
Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda and Malawi 143
President Sam Nujoma and Namibia 144
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and Uganda 144
Zambia and Chiluba 145
Ghana and Rawlings, an Exception 148
Advantages of Limitations 148
Lessons in Power Politics 149
Presidential Terms and their Provisions Elsewhere 151
Kenya and Moi 152
Parliamentary Approval of Constitutional Appointments - 154
Judicial Independence 154
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The Attorney-General 156
The Police Force 157
Parliament • 158
Multiparty Democracy 159
Partyism 159
The Role of Political Parties in Kenya 161
The History of Political Parties 162
Funding of Political Parties 164
Public Financing of Political Parties 165
V Amending the Independence Constitution 168
An Unworkable Document 168
The Critical Amendments 169
• The Second Liberation Amendments - 191
A Road Map to Constitutionalism 195
7 The Review Process 199
The Characteristics of a Constitution 200
t The Concept of Amendments 201
Constitution-Making and People-Driven Democracy 202
Grey Areas in Constitution-Making 213
Comparative Constitution-Making 214
(a) Uganda 214
(b) South Africa s Transformation 219
The Long Road to Freedom 220
The Lessons 222
The United States Review Process 224
Basic Principles • 225
Individual Liberties 226
Historical Background 226
Revision Plans 227
The Convention of 1787 - 228
Ratification of the Constitution 232
Historical Interpretation • 233
The Amendments 234
Judicial Interpretation - 237
The Review Teams 241
The Ugly Face of Populism in Democracy 242
Arena of the Absurd out there at Bomas 243
What is Good for Mankind? 244
The Economic Face of the Review 250
IGE and ISE 253
IGE 253
ISE 255
The Review Issues for Kenya and Africa 256
D Transparency and Accountability in Public Administration 258
The Machinery of Government 258
An Ombudsman 262
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The Role of an Ombudsman t 263
The Origins of the Concept 264
The Question of Jurisdiction 265
An Ombudsman vis-a-vis Parliamentary Question Time 267
Independence and Impartiality 267
9 African Customary Law and Traditional Democracy 269
Towards Autochthonicity 269
Jurisprudence: The Case for African Customary Law - 273
The Nation-State: The Question of Kenyan Nationalities 284
Pre-European Kenya 285
The British Tidal Wave 286
The Departing British and the Incoming Africans 287
Wrong Start, Cumulative Sins 289
The Search for an Autochthonous Constitution 291
Modern Constitutional Democracy - Locke and
Montesquieu 291
The Surges of Democracy 292
Traditional Democracy 293
Ethnic Justice and the Concept of the Nation-State 296
Africa s Search for True Democracy 299
1 0 Independence and Globalization 304
The International Legal Order 304
The Deceptions of a Rogue Superpower 309
The Hypocrisies in Western Democracy 3JJ
Cultural Imperatives 3 R
The Historical Background of the Kadhi Courts 316
The Neo-Right Man Syndrome 324
Africa s Independence in Double Jeopardy 330
Pawns on the Global Chessboard 330
Slaves again to the Economic Masters of the World 331
The Legacy of Western Educational Imperialism - 336
The Death Throes of African Culture? 338
Poverty and the Emasculation of Independence 339
The Birth of the African Union 343
Kenya s Potential Role in African Affairs 344
The African Union on the Move 346
AU vis-a-vis OAU - : 348
The Organs of the African Union 350
Appendix I: A Summary of the Proposals in the Draft
Constitution 353
Appendix II: The Elected Members of the Steering Committee
of the National Constitutional Conference 368
Select Bibliography 369
Index 372
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