How tribalism stunts Kenyan democracy

Political violence soon took on an ethnic dimension after Kenya's disputed 2007 elections

The boy screams as a police officer approaches his home Thursday (17.01.2008) in the Kibera slum. Photograph by Getty Images

In the west of the country, at least 30 people including many children were burned to death when an angry mob set light to a church in Eldoret.

Eighty-year-old Thabita held her cat, the only possession she was able to save from a fire in Mathare, where she lived. Photo: Roberto Schmidt/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images

At least half a million people have been displaced by the violence throughout the country.