About the Author

Willy Mutunga is the executive director of the Human Rights Commission. He taught law at the University of Nairobi, served as an advocate and chairperson of the Law Society of Kenya, and has recently been appointed senior counsel by the president of the Republic of Kenya. His many publications include The Rights of Arrested and Accused Persons and Constitution-Making from the Middle: Civil Society and Transition Politics in Kenya. Alamin Mazrui is an associate professor of African Studies at Ohio State University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Kenya Human Rights Commission. His publications include Swahili, Society and the State, The Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience, both with Ali A. Mazrui; Out for the Count: the 1997 General Elections and the Prospects for Democracy in Kenya; and Black Reparations in the Era of Globalisation and English in Africa: After the Cold War, co-edited with Marcel Rutten and Francois Grignon.