Inequality, Ethnicity and the Fight Against Corruption in Africa: A Kenyan Perspective

Perceptions of inequality among different ethnic groups have the power to shape the fortunes of nations by affecting the political and economic choices of both ruling elites and their voters. In ethnically heterogeneous African states with a tradition of political patronage economic inequality is manifested along ethnic and regional lines. This paper argues for a constitutional dispensation that includes both the diffusion of executive power and systematic action in regard to structural economic inequalities that have assumed an ethnic expression.