Post Colonialism And The Politics Of Kenya
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| Author | : D. Pal S. Ahluwalia |
| Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781560723875 |
The study of Africa arouses many passions and prejudices which are the subject of this book. This book seeks to examine the hegemonic role that African studies has played in the invention of Africanism. Politics within Kenya remains entrapped by Western constructions of institutions and the practice of politics. The post-colonial period is linked inextricably to the colonial period. Kenya's political, economic, social and cultural framework has been and continues to be dominated by the colonial legacy. The discussion of Africanism earlier suggests that the decolonisation process did not achieve liberation fully, except in the narrowest of political terms. Rather, the West continued its dominance by more subtle means which has permeated the very imagination of the colonised. It is this continuing colonisation of the imagination which dominates the political scene. The ever increasing hegemonic role of donor agencies and donor countries, under the guise of structural adjustment programmes, ensures that countries such as Kenya become hostage to the latest manifestation of Africanism.
| Author | : Rok Ajulu |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 185 |
| Release | : 2021-07-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1317077466 |
This engaging reassessment of postcolonial Kenya argues that the country’s political turmoil over the last fifteen years is a continuation of repeating patterns of political contestation and conflict across Kenya’s history. When Kibaki stole the 2007 presidential election, leading to a spiral of violence that left over 1,000 people dead in the space of a month, many analysts wondered how this could happen in a country that had previously been considered an oasis of peace in an otherwise conflict prone region. Combining political economy with political sociology, in this book Rok Ajulu demonstrates that in fact authoritarianism and the predatory deployment of the state has been the predominant feature of Kenya’s post-colonial period. Focusing on how power has been mediated in the country politically and the characters of the elites in charge, the analysis shows the dominance of extra-economic political coercion in economic activity. In a context in which economic activity remains predominantly political, continued control of state-power is so crucial for the new ruling class that it must be retained at all costs. Rok Ajulu’s masterful final book is a powerful and wide-ranging contribution to studies on post-colonial Kenya and will be an important resource for researchers from across political science, economics, history, sociology and African Studies.
| Author | : Nicholas K. Githuku |
| Publisher | : Lexington Books |
| Total Pages | : 575 |
| Release | : 2015-12-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1498506992 |
Mau Mau Crucible of War is a study of the social and cultural history of the mentalité of struggle in Kenya, which reached a high water mark during the Mau Mau war of the 1950s, but which continues to resonate in Kenya today in the ongoing demand for a decent standard of living and social justice for all. This work catalyzes intellectual debate in various disciplines regarding not just the evolution of the Kenyan state, but also, the state in Africa. It not only engages historians of colonial and postcolonial economic and political history, but also sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and those who study personality and social branches of psychology, postcolonialism and postmodernity, social movements, armed conflict specialists, and conflict resolution analysts.
| Author | : Godwin R. Murunga |
| Publisher | : Zed Books |
| Total Pages | : 370 |
| Release | : 2007-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781842778579 |
Shows how the struggle for democracy has been waged in civil society, through opposition parties, and amongst traditionally marginalised groups like women and the young. This book also considers the remaining impediments to democratisation, in the form of a powerful police force and damaging structural adjustment policies.
| Author | : Ken Ochieng' Opalo |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2019-06-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 110849210X |
Examined the development of legislatures under colonial rule, post-colonial autocratic single party rule, and multi-party politics in Africa.
| Author | : David P. Sandgren |
| Publisher | : University of Wisconsin Pres |
| Total Pages | : 216 |
| Release | : 2012-08-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0299287831 |
In 1963 David P. Sandgren went to Kenya to teach in a small, rural school for boys, where he remained for the next four years. These were heady times for Kenyans, as the nation gained its independence, approved a new constitution, and held its first elections. In the school where Sandgren taught, the sons of Gikuyu farmers rose to the challenges of this post colonial era and, in time, entered Kenyan society as adults, joining Kenya’s first generation of post colonial elites. In Mau Mau’s Children, Sandgren has reconnects with these former students. Drawing on more than one hundred interviews, he provides readers with a collective biography of the lives of Kenya’s first postcolonial elite, stretching from their 1940s childhood to the peak of their careers in the 1990s. Through these interviews, Mau Mau’s Children shows the trauma of growing up during the Mau Mau Rebellion, the nature of nationalism in Kenya, the new generational conflicts arising, and the significance of education and Gikuyu ethnicity on his students' path to success.
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| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2015 |
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It was also argued at the time that since the railway needed customers, Europeans should be allowed to settle in the highlands to encourage the Africans to develop their resources to the point of 186 The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa making the railway viable (Ochieng 1985). [...] During the Second World War, Britain had interpreted its duty in Kenya as that of protecting the interests of the Africans because it was within its own interest to do so as Africans 188 The Crises of Postcoloniality in Africa had been recruited to fight for the British against the Germans in the King's African Rifles. [...] Onyango: Postcolonial Politics in Kenya 191 A Comparative Analysis of Precolonial, Colonial and Postcolonial Regimes in Kenya The three regimes since the formation of the state of Kenya, namely, the colonial and postcolonial regimes led by Kenyatta Moi and Kibaki effectively used the colonial, political and economic exclusive strategies evident in the practices of postcoloniality to govern Kenya. [...] In this relationship the core of the periphery continues to serve the interests of the core by being a producer of raw materials and a consumer of the manufactured goods from the core. [...] The neo-colonialist hold the instruments of power and the post-colonialists (in this case perceived as critics of neo-colonialists) have the knowledge and awareness of the reality and the fact that the so-called independence of Kenya is artificial and has not been translated into real economic independence and freedoms.
| Author | : Ndirangu Mwaura |
| Publisher | : Algora Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 506 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0875863213 |
"Examining the impact of foreign aid, trade policies, study-abroad programs, religion, entertainment, the media and other forms of foreign influence on Kenya and other under-developed African nations, the author finds that initiatives billed as "assistance" in many cases serve instead to keep in place the colonial status of dependency"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Poppy Cullen |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2017-06-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3319562762 |
This book explores British post-colonial foreign policy towards Kenya from 1963 to 1980. It reveals the extent and nature of continued British government influence in Kenya after independence. It argues that this was not simply about neo-colonialism, and Kenya’s elite had substantial agency to shape the relationship. The first section addresses how policy was made and the role of High Commissions and diplomacy. It emphasises contingency, with policy produced through shared interests and interaction with leading Kenyans. It argues that British policy-makers helped to create and then reinforced Kenya’s neo-patrimonialism. The second part examines the economic, military, personal and diplomatic networks which successive British governments sustained with independent Kenya. A combination of interlinked interests encouraged British officials to place a high value on this relationship, even as their world commitments diminished. This book appeals to those interested in Kenyan history, post-colonial Africa, British foreign policy, and forms of diplomacy and policy-making.
| Author | : Denielle Elliott |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 379 |
| Release | : 2018-09-03 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 1351672363 |
This book examines the development of medical sciences in postcolonial Kenya, through the adventures and stories of the controversial Kalenjin scientist Davy Kiprotich Koech. As a collaborative life story project, it privileges African voices and retellings, re-centring the voice of African scientists from the peripheries of storytelling about science, global health research collaborations, national politics, international geopolitical alliances, and medical research. Focusing largely on the development of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and its collaborations with the US Centers for Disease Control, the Walter Reed Project, Japan’s International Cooperation Agency, the Wellcome Trust, and other international partners, Denielle Elliott and Davy Koech challenge euro-dominant representations of African science and global health in both the contemporary and historical and offer an unconventional account which aims to destabilize colonial and neo-colonial narratives about African science, scientists, and statecraft. The stories force readers to contend with a series of questions including: How do imperial effects shape contemporary medical research and national sovereignty? In which ways do the colonial ghosts of early medical research infuse the struggles of postcolonial scientists to build national scientific projects? How were postcolonial nation-building projects tied up with the dreams and visions of African scientists? And lastly, how might we reimagine African medicine and biosciences? The monograph will be of interest to students, educators, and scholars working in African Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Global Health, Cultural Anthropology, and Medical Anthropology.
