In fast changing society, Kenya elections are crucial to deal with vast challenges and inequities

Kenyan youths campaign for peaceful polls

AFP – Perched on a rickety ladder, 10-year-old Harriet daubs a message on a wall in the sprawling Kibera slum of Nairobi ahead of elections next week, the first since post-poll violence five years ago. “Good security”, the painted message appeals, one of a series scrawled on the crowded shanty town.

Will Twitter make an impact in Kenya elections next week?

The Christian Science Monitor

Social media – tweets, tags, pokes, posts, uploads – were not part of Kenya’s last election. So new media can’t be blamed for the violence that dented Kenya’s image of stability in 2007. Back then, Web-enabled mobile phones were the playthings of elites and too costly; most people relied on newspapers. Kenyans will go to the polls on March 4 to vote for a president and other public offices. It’s the first national election since 2007, when a previous presidential vote devolved into nationwide violence that killed more than 1,000 people. | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles