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Kenya After 50

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

Editors: Kithinji, Michael Mwenda; Koster, Mickie Mwanzia; Rotich, Jerono P.

DOI: 10.1057/9781137558305

ISBN: 978-1-349-56460-6

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Dec 27, 2015

1 - 10 of 11 Chapters

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Introduction

Kithinji, Michael Mwenda; Koster, Mickie Mwanzia; Rotich, Jerono P.

Pages: 1 –15

[Kenya marked a pivotal occasion in its postcolonial history on December 12, 2013, when it celebrated fifty years of independence. This Golden Jubilee anniversary presented an opportune moment for scholars and other curious observers on Kenya to reflect on the key milestones in the nation’s...
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The Demise and Rise of Majimbo in Independent Kenya

Maxon, Robert M.

Pages: 19 –48

[The demise and rise of federalism as a governing system in independent Kenya, normally referred to by the Swahili word majimbo (literally provinces/states), remains a scarcely studied and understood subject in that nation’s first fifty years of independence. This is surprising as the histories...
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Recasting the Mau Mau Uprising: Reparations, Narration, and Memory

Koster, Mickie Mwanzia

Pages: 49 –63

[Although it is over fifty years since independence, Kenya is still grappling with the contested memory and meaning of Mau Mau. It is unclear how it should be remembered. Was Mau Mau a reversion to ethnic primordialism or was it an act of nationalism? The meaning and outcome of this history can...
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Rethinking the Shifta War Fifty Years after Independence: Myth, Memory, and Marginalization

Weitzberg, Keren

Pages: 65 –81

[In an influential piece on Kenyan nationalism written in 2003, E. S. Atieno Odhiambo noted: “what we have got so far is the political history of nationalism to 1963, rendered by those who won the political struggle” (Atieno Odhiambo, 2003, 45). Historians of Kenya, he argued, had not yet...
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“Rendillelane”: Spatial Views from the Periphery of Kenya

Segal-Klein, Hilah

Pages: 83 –106

[For centuries, borders were the way the academic discipline of geography was understood by geographers. A person’s territory (their living space) was defined by society as far as its limitation and its demarcations. In Africa, the drawing of borders and its academic analysis play a major role in...
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Politics and the Lack of Labor Militancy in Kenya: Trade Unionism after Independence

Otenyo, Eric E.

Pages: 107 –133

[Trade unionism in Kenya had a shared history with its European colonial antecedents. Its national origins were rooted in colonial capitalism, which had been characterized by the use of cheap or forced African labor. The colonial government established administrative systems that ensured control...
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The Strategic Art of Appeasing Old Lovers while Courting New Friends: Kenya’s Foreign Relations in Retrospect

Nzau, Mumo

Pages: 137 –164

[As Kenya marks fifty years of independence, the picture is painted in different circles of a state whose foreign relations outlook has undergone a major paradigmatic shift over the past decade or so. Subsequently, she has increasingly been portrayed as having significandy drifted away from her...
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Kenya at Fifty and the Betrayal of Nationalism: The Paradoxes of Two Family Dynasties

Nasong’o, Wanjala S.

Pages: 165 –187

[The fight for political independence in Kenya was waged on many fronts—the cultural, the social, the political, the economic, and the military—and by multiple social forces—individual and corporate, ethnic and religious, as well as regional and transregional. Nevertheless, in spite of the...
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Elusive Justice: The Maasai Contestation of Land Appropriation in Kenya: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective

Koissaba, Ben Ole

Pages: 189 –219

[The arrival of the colonialists in Africa in the late 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s ushered in new and devastating century-long governance and economic systems that were not in tandem with the indigenous systems. From the advent of colonialism till today, this has characterized African...
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Kenya at Fifty: State Policing Reforms, Politics, and Law, 1963–2013

Otiso, Wycliffe Nyachoti; Kaguta, Ruth Joyce

Pages: 221 –244

[As Kenya transited from a colony to an independent government, part of the fundamental issues preceding the full transfer of power was the debate on leadership and the structure of police intelligence. The debate was settled, or so it appeared, when a Cabinet resolution in October 1963...

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