Abstract: The road to Kenya’s first free, fair, and peaceful in 2022 was a long and bloody one. Since independence from the deconstructing British Empire in 1962, each opportunity for the democratic process was marred by ethnopolitical conflict, economic turmoil, and the repression of the dynastical executive branch. As a result of this journey, however, Kenya has launched itself onto the global political stage, becoming a major actor in not only their East African region, but internationally into conflict zones such as Haiti in 2024. This research explores how the lasting British legacy of society, economics, and politics, hindered and then transformed Kenya as a democratic republic. (April 2024 – unpublished)