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All across the world in the late fifties and sixties could be heard what Byron once called the ‘First Dance of Freedom’. Not long afterwards came the cry of failure as civil wars, tribalism, coups and corruption descended on the recent freedom dances.

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Commissions of inquiry have been called by government a number of times in the past to investigate large scale atrocities by police, including the massacres in Uitenhague in 1985, and Sebokeng in 1990.

In an attempt to construct a cohesive Kenyan state, one of the key questions facing the country is how to coalesce the many ethnic groups into one nation state. [1] Ethnicity has been a powerful organising force in Kenyan politics.

‘We were only tolerated simply because our cheap labour is needed.’ - Steve Biko

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