The politics played out at highest octane levels right from the beginning of the year, and ended on August 16, when Dr William Ruto, the deputy president and leader of the Kenya Kwanza political alliance was declared winner of the 2022 presidential election, on his first stab at the presidency.
His rival and the man he beat, Raila Odinga, has rejected the results and is headed to the Supreme Court. This books mentions both men as being among the lead actors in the making of the 2010 constitution in a convergence of power, politics and law.
In his own words, Prof Githu Muigai, a former Attorney General of Kenya for most of the 2010s, calls this book his ‘’valedictory lecture.’’
Right from the foreword, by former Chief Justice Willy Mutunga, to the list of authorities, preface and Table of Cases, one knows right away that they are in for more of an academic treatise than an insider’s treat from the actual thriller of being a player in one of the continent’s most intriguing politics. Yet it is nowhere near boring. Afterall, it is Prof Muigai, the man of law and not former Attorney General Githu, chief government adviser, who authored the book.
The book, published by Kabarak University Press, starts off in 1887, where African legal experiences were considered to be operating in ”a constitutional wasteland’’ and where eventually native law was always secondary to English Law, historically because the “original doctrine of English laws was that the laws of infidels are abrogated upon European conquest.”
