Kenya’s elections: everyone came to see by Mienke Mari Steytler Election day dawns in downtown Nairobi, Kenya’s capital. It is still dark as queues of people snake around several blocks of the inner city. Many have been waiting since the previous evening, clutching their identification cards, anticipation etched on their faces. Just before 6am a few cars pull up to the entrance of a primary school, which has been turned into a polling station. Out pour several men and women, dressed in khaki flak jackets embroidered with “official election observer”. They are holding paper cups of coffee to ward off…
