Anaïs Angelo

Power and the Presidency in Kenya

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Produktbeschreibung

Reconstructing Jomo Kenyatta's political biography and presidency in order to explore the links between his emergence as an uncontested leader and the deeper colonial and postcolonial history of Kenya, this is the first study to use Kenyatta as a basis for examining the origins of presidentialism in Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781108713832
• ISBN-10: 1108713831
• Artikelnr.: 60039580

Autorenporträt

Anaïs Angelo is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Universität Wien, Austria, where her research focuses on the history of presidentialism, political biographies and women in politics in postcolonial Africa. She holds a Ph.D. in History from the European University Institute, Florence and has conducted extensive archival research in Kenya.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Kenyatta's stateless political imagination
2. From prison to party leader, an ambiguous ascension (1958-1961)
3. Kenyatta, land and decolonisation (1961-1963)
4. Independence and the making of a president (1963-1964)
5. Kenyatta, Meru politics and the last Mau Mau (1961/3-1965)
6. Taming oppositions: Kenyatta's 'secluded' politics (1964-1966)
7. Ruling over a divided political family (1965-1969)
8. 'Kenyatta simply will not contemplate his own death' (1970-1978)
Conclusion
Sources
Bibliography
Index.