Kenyan Election 2002: The End of Machiavellian Politics?

On the 27th of December, 2002, Kenyans went to the polls to elect a 210 member National Assembly.This was Kenya’s 8th election in the last 40 years as an independent state.For all these years , the government was dominated by the ruling party, Kenya African National unio‎n (KANU). Infact through a series of strategies, KANU had managed to perpetuate itself in power as a de facto, and later, a de jure , one party state.With the fall of the Soviet unio‎n in 1990, politics and states in much of the world was transformed in many ways.In Kenya, the early nineties ushered in a serious opposition movement , the Forum for the Restoration of Democracy, which was an alliance of disgruntled politicians, young political idealists and other groups that were yearning for change from the autocratic politics of Daniel Toroitich Arap Moi and the power elite.