Scholar Assesses Kenya Politics

Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga signed an agreement to create a power-sharing government on Thursday, hoping to end months of bitter negotiations and ethnically charged violence that erupted after disputed presidential elections in December.

The fighting resulted in the deaths of at least 1,000 people and forced an estimated 300,000 to flee their homes, putting Kibaki and Odinga under intense international pressure to work out a governing arrangement.

Ndegwa answered your questions about the power-sharing deal and what it means for the long-term political and ethnic divides in Kenya.