In the wake of Kenya’s contested 2007 presidential election, the country descended into one of the darkest chapters of its modern history. What began as a dispute over vote counting rapidly unraveled into a national crisis. Communities fractured along political and ethnic lines, and within days, violence spread across the Rift Valley and beyond. Over 1,000 people were killed, hundreds of thousands were displaced, and the nation’s image as a stable democracy was suddenly in question.