In voting overwhelmingly to support a new constitution, Kenyans sent a clear message on Aug. 4 about
the need for reform in a country brought nearly to its knees by corruption and bad governance.
And in going to the polls peacefully and en masse, capping a campaign season that included
a bomb attack in the early days and persistent rumors of preparations for rancor around the country, the more than 70 percent of eligible voters who cast their ballots spoke volumes about the need to obviate the memory of previous elections: the last of which left more than 1,000 dead and tumbled east Africa's largest economy into crisis. ...