Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 34 No. 113 Mungiki: 'Neo-Mau Mau' & Prospects for Democracy in Kenya

Abstract of Briefing

Title:	Mungiki: 'Neo-Mau Mau' & the Prospects for Democracy in Kenya
Author:	Awinda Atieno
Location:	Vol.34 No.113 (Sept 2007), pp526-531

Political insecurity in Kenya has recently focused attention on the emergence of the Mungiki movement. Depicted in the Kenyan media as a thuggish, criminal organisation set on disrupting the already insecure climate in Nairobi and its outskirts, a spate of Mungiki-attributed activity (numerous beheadings of Mungiki opponents, racketeering, vigilantism, extortion of matatu (taxi) businesses, forcible circumcision of women) has for obvious reasons been condemned in the press as unnecessarily brutal and savage.

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