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Kenya: A History Since Independence

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Since independence in 1963, Kenya has survived nearly five decades as a functioning nation-state, with regular elections, its borders intact and without experiencing war or military rule. Then again, Kenya’s independence has all the time been circumscribed by its failure to transcend its colonial past; its governments have failed to reach adequate living conditions for so much of its citizens; and its politics have been fraught with controversy – illustrated so much recently by the post-election protests and violence in 2007. The selections of the early years of independence, and the acts of its leaders within the decades since – from Jomo Kenyatta, Tom Mboya and Oginga Odinga to Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki – have changed the rustic’s path in unpredictable ways. The political elite’s endless struggle for get entry to to state resources has damaged Kenya’s economy and the political exploitation of ethnicity still threatens the rustic’s stability. On this definitive new history, Charles Hornsby demonstrates how independent Kenya’s politics have been dominated by a struggle to deliver security, impartiality, efficiency and growth, but how the legacies of the past have continued to undermine their achievement, making the long-term future of Kenya a ways from certain.

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