Decolonization & Independence In Kenya: 1940-93 (Eastern African Studies)

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This is a sharply observed assessment of the history of the last half century by a distinguished group of historians of Kenya. On the same time the book is a courageous reflection within the dilemmas of African nationhood.

Professor B. A. Ogot says:

“The primary purpose of the book is to turn that decolonization does not only mean the transfer of alien power to sovereign nationhood; it will have to also entail the liberation of the worlds of spirit and culture, in addition to economics and politics.

“The book also raises a more fundamental question, that may be: How much independence is to be had to any state, national economy or culture in lately’s world? It asks how far are Africa’s miseries linked to the colonial past and to the method of decolonization?

“In particular the book raises the basic question of how far Kenya is avoidably neo-colonial? And what does neo-colonial dependence mean? The book answers these questions by discussing the dynamic between the politics of decolonization, the social history of class formation and the economics of dependence. The book ends with a provocative epilogue discussing the transformation of the post-colonial state from a single-party to a multi-party system.”

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