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This chapter by Willy Mutunga, Kenya’s former Chief Justice and President of the Supreme Court, highlights debates on human rights by African intellectuals and dynamics of Kenya’s human rights movement. Further, it explores the transformation of the Judiciary and envisions the possibility of a human rights state in the context of Kenya’s 2010 transformative Constitution. Overall, Mutunga posits that Kenya’s Constitution and the new judiciary provides a firm foundation for the country’s transformation.
This chapter is a revised version of my 2015 article titled “Human Rights States and Societies: A Reflection From Kenya,” The Transnational Human Rights Review 2: 63–102. I thank Professors Jill Ghai, Yash Ghai, Makau Mutua, Joel Ngugi, Joe Oloka Onyango, and Duncan Okello for their brilliant comments on earlier drafts of this article.
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Mutunga, W. (2019). Human Rights States and Societies: A Reflection from Kenya. In: Sahle, E. (eds) Human Rights in Africa. Contemporary African Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51915-3_2
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