The pictures are all taken during the presidential elections and the post election crisis in Kenya in December 2007 / 2008. The ethnical motivated violence that broke out, after incumbent President Mwai Kibaki was declared the winner of the presidential election held on December 27, 2007, left more than 1200 people dead and more than 450.000 flee their homes. Supporters of Kibaki's opponent, Raila Odinga of the Orange Democratic Movement, alleged electoral manipulation. The Kikuyu, Kenya’s largest tribe, have dominated Kenya both politically and economically since independence from Britain in 1963, stirring up ancestral rivalry with the Luos and leading to jealousy and frustration among other communities. Thousands of shops and business were burned and destroyed as a result of the economical and political imbalance of the country. The outbreak of violence left one of Africa’s most stable and fast growing economies in pieces.
