Charles Hornsby

Kenya (eBook, ePUB)

A History Since Independence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since independence from Great Britain in 1963, Kenya has survived five decades as a functioning nation-state, holding regular elections; its borders and political system intact and avoiding open war with its neighbours and military rule internally. It has been a favoured site for Western aid, trade, investment and tourism and has remained a close security partner for Western governments. However, Kenya's successive governments have failed to achieve adequate living conditions for most of its citizens; violence, corruption and tribalism have been ever-present, and its politics have failed to transcend its history. The decisions of the early years of independence and the acts of its leaders in the decades since have changed the country's path in unpredictable ways, but key themes of conflicts remain: over land, money, power, economic policy, national autonomy and the distribution of resources between classes and communities.While the country's political institutions have remained stable, the nation has changed, its population increasing nearly five-fold in five decades.
But the economic and political elite's struggle for state resources and the exploitation of ethnicity for political purposes still threaten the country's existence. Today, Kenyans are arguing over many of the issues that divided them 50 years ago. The new constitution promulgated in 2010 provides an opportunity for national renewal, but it must confront a heavy legacy of history. This book reveals that history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 976
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780755627745
• Artikelnr.: 63043137

Autorenporträt

Charles Hornsby holds a D.Phil on Kenyan politics from St Antony's College, Oxford and has combined a professional career in information technology with a deep engagement with Kenya. He is the co-author (with David Throup) of Multi-Party Politics in Kenya (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction 2: Independence! 3: Struggle for the State, 1964
1965 4: Multi
Party, but not Democracy, 1966
1969 5: Golden Years, 1970
1974 6: Rigor Mortis, 1975
1978 7: Too Many Cooks, 1978
1983 8: Heavy Footsteps, 1984
1989 9: A Second Liberation? 1990
1992 10: Conflict and Change, 1993
1997 11: Unnatural Succession, 1998
2002 12: Back to the Future, 2003
2008 13: Epilogue: Cold War, 2008
2009 14: Conclusions Notes Bibliography Index