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Authors: Michela Wrong
1 Jomo Kenyatta was not alone in regarding the word âKikuyu' as a European deformation of the more correct âGikuyu'. However, âKikuyu' so predominates in both the Kenyan media and academic writing that using âGikuyu'ânow widely reserved for the languageâto refer to the community strikes me as pretentious.
2 âKenya's Chance for a New Beginning',
Financial Times
, 30 December 2002.
3 Chinua Achebe,
The Trouble with Nigeria
, Fourth Dimension, 1983.
4 Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale,
Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and Africa, Book Two
, James Currey Ltd, 1992.
5 Wangari Muta Maathai,
Unbowed: One Woman's Story
, Heinemann, 2004.
6 Michael Blundell,
A Love Affair with the Sun: A Memoir of Seventy Years in Kenya
, Kenway Publications, 1994.
7 Gerard Prunier, âKenya: Histories of Hidden War', www.opendemocracy.net, 29 February 2008.
8 Karuti Kanyinga, âWhen Figures Count: Governance, Institutions and Inequality in Kenya', Society for International Development (SID).
9 âMinisters' Home Areas Get Lion's Share of Roads Cash',
Daily Nation
, 20 July 2006.
10 Jean-François Bayart, Stephen Ellis and Beatrice Hibou,
The Criminalisation of the State in Africa
, African Issues Series, James Currey Ltd, 1999, p. 103.
11 Transparency InternationalâKenya, âKenya Bribery Index 2001', www.tikenya.org.
12 M. Brockerhoff and P. Hewitt, âEthnicity and Child Mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa', Population Control, New York, 1998.
13 âPublic servants would have engaged in business covertly anyway if they had not been allowed to do so by regulation': Duncan Ndegwa,
Walking in Kenyatta Struggles: My Story
, Kenya Leadership Institute, 2006, p. 498.
14 By 1998, Kenya's stock of pending bills stood at an estimated 22 billion shillings. As Transparency International reported in its 2002 report âPublic Resources, Private Purposes', âpending bills remain a slow time bomb that will explode in the face of Kenyan taxpayers'. Another useful paper on the various scams used throughout Kenyan history is Gladwell Otieno, âThe NARC's Anti-Corruption Drive in Kenya: Somewhere Over the Rainbow?',
African Security Review
, Vol. 14, No. 4,2005.
15 Peter Warutere, âThe Goldenberg Conspiracy: The Game of Paper, Gold, Money and Power', Institute for Security Studies, Paper 117, September 2005; âReport of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the Goldenberg Affair', Chairman Hon. Mr Justice S.E.O. Bosire, October 2005.
16 âA Survey of Seven Years of Waste', Centre for Governance and Development, Nairobi, February 2001.
17 âIf you take a skunk home as a pet willingly, it's yours, together with its disturbing fragrance. It's disingenuous of you to blame the person you took it from for the smell and it is equally dishonest for the person who gave it to you to point at you and scream that these days you smell': John Githongo,
East African Standard
, 30 September 2006.
18 Jomo Kenyatta,
Facing Mount Kenya
, East African Educational Publishers Ltd, 1938. Other key publications on pre-colonial Kikuyu society are L.S.B. Leakey,
Mau Mau and the Kikuyu
, Methuen and Co. Ltd, 1952; Fr C. Cagnolo,
The Agikuyu: Their Customs, Traditions and Folklore
, 1933, revised edition 2006.
19 Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen,
Kenya Diary 1902â1906
, Oliver & Boyd, 1957.
20 Godfrey Muriuki,
A History of the Kikuyu 1500â1900
, Oxford University Press, 1974.
21
Time
magazine, 30 March 1953.
22 David Anderson,
Histories of the Hanged: Britain's Dirty War in Kenya and the End of the Empire
, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005.
23 E.S. Atieno Odhiambo and John Lonsdale,
Mau Mau and Nationhood
, James Currey Ltd, 2003, p. 46.
24 Anderson,
Histories of the Hanged
, op. cit., Caroline Elkins,
Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya
, Jonathan Cape, 2005, and Lotte Hughes,
Moving the Maasai
, Palgrave Macmillan, 2006, are the most notable examples.
25 Blundell,
A Love Affair with the Sun
, op. cit.
26 Society for International Development, âPulling Apart. Facts and Figures on Inequality in Kenya', October 2004.
27 Kenya National Audit Office, âSpecial Audit Report of the Controller and Auditor-General on Financing, Procurement and Implementation of Security Related Projects', April 2006.
28 Mars Group Kenya GAP Report No. 2, âIllegally Binding: The Missing Anglo-Leasing Scandal Promissory Notes', www.marsgroupkenya.org.
29 NARC's Assistant Justice Minister Njeru Githae, âNew Plan to Recover the Looted Billions',
Daily Nation
, 16 July 2003.
30 Paul Collier,
The Bottom Billion
, Oxford University Press, 2007, p. 109.
31 Stephen Brown, âAuthoritarian Leaders and Multiparty Elections in Africa: How Foreign Donors Help to Keep Kenya's Daniel arap Moi in Power',
Third World Quarterly
, Vol. 22, No. 5, 2001, pp. 725â39.
32 Bronwen Maddox, âCracks Under Surface of the £5bn Labour Mission for World's Poor',
The Times
, 19 March 2007.
33 Department of Institutional Integrity, World Bank, âKenya Detailed Implementation Review Report', 10 January 2007. This strictly confidential report was published on the website of the
Wall Street Journal
(âKenya and the World Bank') on 6 March 2008.
34 Richard Beeston and Xan Rice, âRegime is Told to Clean up its Act or Pay Price', âWatchdog Muzzled by his Master Prepares to Bark',
The Times
, 21 January 2006.
35 âExclusive: The Anglo Leasing Truth',
Daily Nation
, 22 January 2006.
36 The Kenyan government commissioned an inquiry into the Artur brothers saga, dubbed the Kiruki Commission. In April 2007 the government announced that its findings would not be publicly released for reasons of ânational security'.
37 Public Accounts Committee, âReport on Special Audit on Procurement of Passport Issuing Equipment by the Department of Immigration, Office of the Vice-president and Ministry of Home Affairs', Kenya National Assembly, March 2006.
38 UNDP, 5th Kenya Human Development Report, 2006.
39 British aid to Kenya rose from £24.9 million in 2002â03 to £64.2 million in 2005â06, according to DfID's annual reports. Despite talk of contracts with British companies being cancelled under Kibaki, UK exports to Kenya were £214.98 million in 2006, compared to £158.86 million in 2002, the last year of the Moi presidency, according to the UK Department of Trade and Industry. With £1.5 billion in investments, the UK remains by far the largest foreign investor in Kenya.
40 âEthnicity and Violence in the 2007 Elections in Kenya', Afrobarometer Briefing Paper No. 48, February 2008; Roxana Gutierrez Romero, Mwangi S. Kimenyi and Stefan Dercon, âThe 2007 Elections, Post-Conflict Recovery and Coalition Government in Kenya',
Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth
, 26 September 2008.
41 Well-researched reports on the 2007â08 election crisis include: âStill Behaving Badly', Second Periodic Report of the Election-Monitoring Project, December 2007; Kenya National Commission on Human Rights; âKenya in Crisis', Africa Report No. 135, Crisis Group, 21 February 2008; and âBallots to Bullets: Organised Political Violence and Kenya's Crisis of Governance',
Human Rights Watch
, Vol. 20, No. 1 (A), March 2008.
42 David Anderson and Emma Lochery, âViolence and Exodus in Kenya's Rift Valley, 2008: Predictable and Preventable?',
Journal of Eastern African Studies
, Vol. 2, No. 2, July 2008.
43 Britain's 2005 Commission for Africa report, âOur Common Interest', makes this point in its âCulture' chapter, quoting academics Stephen Ellis and Gerrie ter Haar: âNo more than anyone else do Africa and Africans have an authentic, unchanging culture that is transmitted from one generation to another, or ought to be.'
44 cf Bayart, Ellis and Hibou,
The Criminalisation of the State in Africa
, op. cit., p. 101: âSpecial anti-corruption units and commissions exist essentially to attack political and economic rivals, while at the same time placating aid donors.'
45 David Pallister, âFraud Office Inquiry into UK Links to Kenyan Cash and Arms Scandal',
Guardian
, 1 October 2007.
46 Niels Tobiasen, Danish managing director of a Wiltshire security firm, was given a suspended five-month sentence in September 2008 for bribing a Ugandan official in order to win Ugandan army training contracts ahead of a Commonwealth summit in Kampala. Also cf Transparency International Progress Report 2008, âEnforcement of the OECD Convention on Combating Bribery of Foreign Public Officials'.
47 âDid Kamani Meet Kibaki?',
Nairobi Star
, 18 May 2008.
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(JG indicates John Githongo)
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a'Nzeki, Archbishop Ndingi Mwana 221
Achebe, Chinua 42, 132
Africa Commission 206, 212
Akunga, Conrad Marc 153, 154, 155, 158, 334
Al Qaeda 78, 258â9, 277
Ali, Major General Hussein 256
Anderson, David 107, 232, 308
Anglo Leasing and Finance Company Ltd 129, 162, 206; British investigation into 328; contracts with Kenyan government 85, 164, 165, 166, 169, 173, 180; cost of Kenyan government contracts with 165â6, 169, 174, 210, 216; elections, money from deals used to fund NARC campaigns (âresource mobilisation') 215â16, 219â20, 243; foreign donors' reaction to scandal 260â4, 266, 267; forensic laboratory contract 164, 173; âghost firms' sue Kenyan government for breach of contract 328; JG investigates 79, 80â97, 135, 163â6, 233â45, 248â54, 268â9; JG releases details of investigation into 248â54; KANU and 77â9; Kibaki and 219, 220, 222, 234, 235â6, 238, 244â5, 251, 265â6, 268, 273; Maore reveals scandal 77â9, 85, 86; media coverage of scandal 240, 245, 248â54, 255â6, 269â70; ministers involved with 84â97, 118, 165, 166, 171â2, 173, 177, 179, 215â16, 217â20, 222, 223, 245, 250â1, 268; Moi and 165, 171â2; NARC and 79, 84â97, 118, 165, 166, 171â2, 173, 177, 179, 215â16, 217â20, 222, 233â6, 241, 242â3, 245, 250â4, 261, 268, 269â74; navy frigate contract 165, 180; passport printing and lamination contract 78â9, 84â7; payments to 164â5, 170â1, 173, 219, 268, 328; police Mahindra jeep contract 78, 84; classic procurement scam 168â72; âProject Nexus' 165; shadowy nature of 171â2
Annan, Kofi 314, 315
Anti-Corruption and Economic Crimes Act 66, 285
Artur brothers 256â60
Asians, Kenyan 139, 146, 168, 172, 173, 270, 281, 303, 316
Awori, Moody 84, 85, 87, 213, 245, 250, 251, 268, 301
Â
BAE Systems 276â7, 334
Bellamy, William 193â4, 222â3, 224, 250, 259
Benn, Hilary 267, 276
Biwott, Nicholas 301
Blair, Tony 54, 194, 200, 206, 212, 276
Bland, Simon 267
Blixen, Karen 8â9, 121
Blundell, Michael 50, 112
Bomas of Kenya 73, 74, 241
Bono 205, 266
Bosire Commission 65, 268, 321
British High Commission, Nairobi 194, 195, 198, 202â3, 253, 268, 296
Brown, Stephen 188
Bruce, Colin 260, 263, 275, 278, 333
Bush, George W. 262, 263, 275, 277
Buwembo, Joachim 306
Â
Cameron, James 109
Castle, Barbara 109
Central Bank, Kenya 62, 78, 93, 164â5, 259, 318, 319, 320, 322
Central Province, Kenya 52, 73, 99, 102, 108, 113, 114, 117, 127, 147â8, 243, 280, 282, 297, 298, 301, 304
Charterhouse Bank Ltd 259â60
China 209, 240
Christian Aid 160, 205
Churchill, Winston 105
CIA 82â3
Clay, Sir Edward 71, 171, 183, 194â204, 210â15, 224, 225, 254, 259, 267, 277, 333â4
Collier, Professor Paul 31, 51, 185â6, 232, 326
Collier, Val 326
Cornwell, David (John le Carré) 23
Â
Daily Nation
63, 68, 91, 119, 131, 202, 222, 247â51, 253, 282â3, 291, 298, 319
De La Rue 78
Delamere family 8, 105
Democratic Party 69, 118, 135, 175â6, 242
Democratic Republic of Congo 15, 83, 115, 124, 196, 325
Department for International
Development, UK (DfID) 194, 204, 205â12, 225, 261â2, 267, 275, 276, 337
Diop, Makhtar 190â2, 199, 223â4, 260
Dorobo tribe 103, 105
Â
EastAfrican
12, 141
East African Community 140, 307
East African Standard
41, 56â60, 248, 255â7, 259
Easterly, William 207
Eigen, Peter 141, 142
Eldoret 112, 114, 290, 307
Electoral Commission of Kenya (ECK) 298, 301, 306, 307, 315n
Eliot, Sir Charles 46
Embu 43, 72, 108, 216, 291, 307, 313
End of Poverty, The
(Sachs) 192
Escrivá, JosemarÃa 33, 134
Ethiopia 9, 50, 115, 192, 277
European Union: Common Agricultural Policy 207; elections 2007, observers in Kenya for 298, 307; gives greater say to Kenyan Treasury on how aid is spent 286; JG's resignation, reaction to 223
Executive
magazine 65, 138, 139, 141
Â
Face Technologies 78
Facing Mount Kenya
(Kenyatta) 103â4, 107
FBI 228, 326
Financial Times
11, 12, 23, 187, 189â90, 333
Fish, Dave 267
Ford Foundation 264
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, UK (FCO) 194, 196, 201, 203, 206, 225, 259, 334
Â
G8 meeting, Gleneagles (2005) 206, 212, 262
Gado 63, 202
Geldof, Bob 205, 266
Gellhorn, Martha 8
General Service Unit (GSU) 3, 13, 34, 79, 187, 311, 337
Gethi, John 129
Getonga, Alfred 72, 85, 87, 91, 129, 177, 179, 215, 251
Gikonyo, Dr Dan 70â1, 175, 242
Gikuyu language 26, 74, 136, 222
Gikuyu, Embu, Meru Association (GEMA) 113, 126, 144, 176, 243, 337
Githongo, Ciru (JG's sister) 39, 125, 133
Githongo, Gitau (JG's brother) 125, 131, 132, 138, 239â40
Githongo, Joe (JG's father): accountant 126â7; attempts to influence JG through 94â5, 118â19; Catholic faith 123, 142, 143; home 123; JG and 15â16, 94â5, 119, 130â1, 133, 137, 175, 238â9, 250, 265; Kenyatta regime, role in 118,
160; London, life in 125; loner 135â6; marriage 123; Mau Mau and 123â4, 125; Moi regime and 118, 160; railways, work on 126; social standing 135â6; Transparency International, role in birth of 14, 141; tribalism, loathing of 126â7, 142â3; UN, work for 124â5
Githongo, John (JG): African roots, disconnection from 143â4, 145, 229, 266â7, 286â7; Anglo Leasing, compiles dossier on 233â5, 240â1, 242, 243, 244â5, 248â54; Anglo Leasing, investigation into government contracts with 78â9, 80â97, 163â6, 233â5, 240â1, 242, 243, 244â5, 248â54; Anglo Leasing, releases details of investigation to media 248â54; author, relationship with 12â13, 14, 19, 20, 23â31, 74; author, stays with 19, 20, 23â31; birth 125, 160, 229; Britain, connection with 125, 160, 229, 266â7, 286â7; Catholic faith 27â8, 133â5, 142, 143, 159, 174, 175, 176, 237, 248; character 12, 13, 19, 27, 35â6, 37â40, 81, 132â3, 135, 161, 175â7, 216â17, 233, 235, 236, 264â5, 318, 323, 329â31; Chief of the Burning Spear 31â2, 218; childhood 127, 130â1; diaries 32, 135, 216, 234; elections 2002, role in 14; exile 227â60, 263â7, 271â8, 329; family home 121â3; family, effect of actions upon 175â6, 216, 238â40, 250, 265; father, relationship with 15â16, 17, 118â19, 130â1, 137, 145, 175, 238â9; foreign donors and 15, 38â9, 194, 222â3, 235, 236, 261â2, 263â4, 266, 267; girlfriend 28, 91, 216â17, 221, 250, 264â5, 335; high treason charge, possibility of 237, 251; informers 81â4, 86, 172, 180, 232, 244â5; journalist 12, 14, 138â41, 143; KACC, testifies before 254, 256, 268, 271, 272; Kibaki, relationship with 14, 15, 17â18, 34â5, 37, 66â8, 71, 86, 87, 90â1, 172â5, 179â82, 217, 219, 220, 222, 235â6, 238, 244â5, 265â6, 311â12; Kikuyu ethnicity 13, 97, 115, 117â19, 130, 142â4, 145, 159â62, 163â4, 243, 253, 287â8, 289; legacy of revelations 322â4, 327, 328; media, relationship with 14, 22, 92, 240, 245, 248â50, 251, 252, 253â4; Michael Holman, stays with 39, 31; Ministry of Justice, role in setting up of 66; Moi, investigates corruption under 14, 86; mother, relationship with 133â4, 175, 238â9; NARC and 14, 66â8, 79â87, 164â6, 171â82, 215â25, 229, 233â6, 241, 242â3, 244â5, 250â4, 268â74; Oxford University, stays at 31, 32, 228â33, 235, 242, 243, 264, 285, 290, 322, 329; PAC, testifies before 95, 237â8, 254, 257, 268; Permanent Secretary in Charge of Governance and Ethics, appointment as 12, 15â18, 17, 36â7, 118â19, 145; Permanent Secretary in Charge of Governance and Ethics, abortive attempt to demote from post as 18, 177â82, 215; Permanent Secretary in Charge of Governance and Ethics, office 34â6; Permanent Secretary in Charge of Governance and Ethics, resigns as 20, 21â3, 220â5; physique 12â13, 132; police, joins 137â8; public view of 165â6, 252â4, 286â90, 322; return to Kenya 329â30; revolt, reasons for ability to 158â62, 175â6; school 127â9, 133, 135, 136, 175; smear campaign against 91â2, 231, 254, 264; State House office 34â5, 164; studies in England 12; taping of ministers' conversations 21, 32, 88â90, 233â5, 251, 252, 253â4, 273â4, 289, 321â2; threats to 18, 26, 37, 87â8, 90â7, 176, 218â19, 222, 227â8, 229, 230â2, 250, 257â8, 274, 329â30; Transparency International and 14, 15, 141â2; travel within Africa 12; university in Wales 136, 143; World Bank Volcker panel, recruited by 263, 278
Githongo, Mary (JG's mother) 123â4, 125, 133â4, 238â9
Githongo, Mugo (JG's brother) 39, 126, 136, 138, 158, 178, 221, 239, 240, 274â5
Githongo & Company 126â7
Goldenberg scandal 62â3, 65, 86, 89, 139, 165â6, 168, 211, 216, 221, 228, 251, 268, 269, 284, 311, 319, 320, 321, 322, 324
Goldsmith, Lord 276
Grand Regency hotel 63, 322
Â
Hall, Francis 104
Hannan, Lucy 312
Hemingway, Ernest 8
Hileman, Milena 162
HIV/AIDS 166, 171, 208, 302, 325
Holman, Michael 30, 31
Home Guard 108, 110, 123, 142, 288
Howells, Kim 259
Human Rights Watch 35
Â
Infotalent Ltd 173
International Monetary Fund (IMF) 60â1, 170, 184, 186, 261
Iraq 262, 275
Islamic extremism 78, 188
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Kaggia, Bildad 50
Kaiser, Father 26
Kamani, Deepak 84, 173, 327, 329
Kamani, Rashmi 327
Kamba people 43, 48, 58â9, 102, 116, 129, 157, 163, 313
Kantai, Parselelo 324
KANU party 77, 86, 262, 337; Anglo Leasing and 78, 171â2; elections 1997 188; elections 2002 2; elections 2007 215; independence and 109; Kikuyu and 113, 114; long grip on power 2
see also
Moi, Daniel arap
Karanja, Lisa 35â6, 38, 92, 95â6, 178, 217, 289, 324
Karen, Nairobi 121â2, 134, 135, 175, 242, 330
Kariuki, J.M. 26, 279
Karua, Martha 271, 311, 334
Karume, Njenga 175
Kaufmann, Daniel 207â8, 263, 327
Keane, Fergal 251
Kalenjin people 42; Asian Kenyans, relationship with 172; character of 43, 44; elections 2007 and 290, 297, 308, 312, 316; ethnic violence in the early 1990s, role in 114, 140, 141; history of 49, 112, 113, 114, 140, 141; invention of 49; Kenyatta and 112, 113; Moi and 51, 52, 56, 57, 142, 284, 300
KENYA
AID AND DONORS, FOREIGN: Anglo Leasing, reaction to scandal of 192, 260â4, 266, 267; anti-corruption drive 262â4, 266â7, 275â8; Cold War 183, 185; Consultative Group meeting (April 2005) 223; corruption, general approach to 8, 9â10, 14, 38â9, 51, 53â5, 60â4, 184â225, 260â4, 266â7, 275â8, 324â5, 327â8; DfID
see
Department for International Development, UK; Gleneagles (2008) 206, 212, 262; High Commissioner Clay raises corruption as an issue 193â204; history of aid to Kenya 183â204, 205â22; intimacy of relationship between donors and government ministers 190â3, 224; IMF
see
IMF; JG, relationship with 15, 38â9, 194, 197, 198, 222â3, 235, 236, 261â2, 263â4, 266, 267; JG, reaction to resignation of 220â5; KACA and 186; under Kenyatta 184; under Kibaki 11, 38â9, 197â204; legislation passed to appease 185â6; under Moi 8, 9â10, 14, 170, 184, 185â7; multi-party politics, enforces 51, 62; NARC regime and 170, 183, 210â11; as percentage of government spending 184; structural adjustment funding 160, 184; UK aid 187, 193â204, 205â12, 225, 261â2, 267, 275, 276â7, 337; vastly boosted aid, recent culture of 205â13, 262; War on Terror and 275â6, 277; World Bank
see
World Bank
COLONIAL RULE: Asian Kenyans under 172; clichés of 8â9; corruption under 60; economy under 11; education under 134; ethnic self-awareness, role in 45â50, 52; foreign aid and history of 184, 194, 202, 203; Karen under 122; Kikuyu under 104â10, 115; living
standards under 11; modern Kenyan attitudes towards 286â8; pre-eminent role of Kenya in Africa as a result of 8â9
CORRUPTION: Anglo Leasing and
see
Anglo Leasing and Finance Company Ltd; anti-corruption legislation 65â6, 283â4, 285â6, 327; banks and 61, 259â60, 270; bribes 11, 55, 337; challenges to pan-African 326â7; donor communities' approach towards 8, 9â10, 14, 38â9, 51, 53â5, 60â4, 184â225, 260â4, 266â7, 275â8, 324â5, 327â8; economy and 11, 60â1, 160â1; effect upon stability of country 258â9; elections 2002, NARC campaign on 2; history of 41â2, 50â3, 56â9, 60â3; Islamic terrorism and 258â9; JG fights
see
Githongo, John; judiciary 65, 268â9; Kenyan ambivalence towards 55â6, 166â8, 169, 287â8; Kibaki and
see
Kibaki, Mwai;
kitu kidogo
(âpetty' corruption) 55, 337; land grabbing 61â2, 65; layers of Kenyan 41â2; legal system used to fight action against 268â9; Moi and
see
Moi, Daniel arap; NARC and
see
National Rainbow Coalition; NSIS investigations into 80â1; âOur Turn to Eat' culture (patronage) and 8, 11, 35, 42, 44, 5â3, 56â60, 72â4, 112â14, 116â19, 143, 144, 145, 157â62, 272, 282, 290â2, 297â300, 325â6; âpending bills' 61, 65; Permanent Secretary in Charge of Governance and Ethics, post created 11â12; public procurement and 65, 77, 78â97, 168â72, 200
see also
Anglo Leasing and Finance Company Ltd; state loans and 61; âstraddling' 60; UN Convention Against Corruption, ratifies 65; Transparency International
see
Transparency International