Kenya’s Constitution explicitly protects media freedom. Yet attacks, intimidation, legal pressure and financial fragility can change journalism without formally censoring it. The abduction of editor Alex Kiprotich makes the question urgent.
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Kenya Constitution Meets Reality
Kenya’s 2010 Constitution did not eliminate political conflict. It changed where conflict goes and what citizens can demand. Sixteen years later, courts, election disputes and Gen Z politics reveal a country testing whether constitutional rules still bind power when they become inconvenient.