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10 Transnat'l L. & Contemp. Probs. 517 (2000)
Constitutional Trends in Africa-The Kenya Case

handle is hein.journals/tlcp10 and id is 531 raw text is: Constitutional Trends In Africa - The Kenya Case J.B. Ojwang* I. Introduction ................................................................................................ 517 II. Kenya's Constitutional Evolution to the Threshold of the Third M illennium ............................................................................ 519 A . Pre-Colonial Tim es .............................................................................. 519 B . Colonial Tim es ..................................................................................... 520 C. A Westminster-Model Constitution ................................................... 522 D. From Westminster to an African Republic ........................................ 523 E. The Constitution, the President, and the Party in the African Republic .................................................................................. 524 III. The Post-Independence Political and Constitutional O rder ........................................................................................................... 526 A . Introduction ........................................................................................ 526 B. Constitutional Change in Kenya, 1964-2000 ..................................... 526 1. Preliminary Remark ....................................................................... 526 2. The Presidency ................................................................................ 526 3. The Legislature ................................................................................ 530 4. The Judiciary ................................................................................... 533 C. Evaluating Kenya's Constitutional Status Today ............................. 535 IV. Constitutionalism in Kenya and Africa - Future Prospects ................... 538 I. INTRODUCTION The relevance of the theme, Constitutional Trends in Africa, is to be appreciated in the first place with regard to the interplay between international law and municipal law-this relationship itself makes a case for formulating perspectives on the African position. The threshold in this relationship has been stated by Michael Akehurst in these terms: International law does not entirely ignore municipal law. For instance, ... * LL.B, LL.M. (Nairobi); Ph.D. (Cambridge) Professor of Law & Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi.