There are two ways to read the results of the presidential election Kenya held last week. The first is to see it as a triumph of democracy, especially after the controversy, chaos and violence that followed the last poll in 2007. A second interpretation will see it as a victory for Kenyan nationalism and a snub of the international community.
The first assessment is undoubtedly true; the second a little less so, although there is no mistaking the anger Kenyans, along with many Africans, feel toward a world that seems unduly focused on the behavior of their leaders.
Mr. Uhuru Kenyatta, son of Kenya's founding leader and the current deputy prime minister, won a convincing victory with 50.07 percent of the vote, narrowly topping the 50 percent threshhold that is required for him to claim a first-round win.