If until the repercussions of the event could not be grave one could call the fracas outright stupid. But the protract fracas that has been created by the recent advent of the issue of the women’s reservation bill has caused enough of headache to the major political parties and also in a...

The new Kenyan Constitution gives a very critical treatment to gender. It seeks to repudiate the historical exclusion of women from the mainstream society. It strikes at the socio-legal barriers that Kenyan women have faced over history. Compared with the old constitutional order, the new legal...