What the goal of this essay is to find out how ethnicity and political representation in Kenya takes its shape. And to understand the importance ethnicity is to voters, representatives and politics in general. What I strive for is to give the reader an insight and increased understanding of Kenya's politics. My questions are as follows: 1. In what way are factors such as ethnic communities and citizenship part of Kenya's politics? And 2. How do political representatives use ethnicity to win voter support? The method I chose is a Qualitative method. The analysis is a Qualitative text analysis called Discourse analysis. The choice of method and analysis was due to my choice of material, scientific articles and news articles, with a focus on language. My results where how the emergence of ethnic politics in the country was due to two factors. Ethnic societies and "dual" citizenship. Ethnic citizenship. Ethnicity became important because it became a part of the political system. Via these two factors. How the political representatives receive voter support is that they use the ethnic division in the country. Uses this to there advantage. But many youngervoters are fighting back.
2022-05-25