Our turn to eat : politics in Kenya since 1950 / edited by Daniel Branch, Nic Cheeseman, Leigh Gardner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Branch, Daniel, 1978-

Cheeseman, Nic, 1979-

Gardner, Leigh.

Series:

Afrikanische Studien (Münster in Westfalen, Germany)

Afrikanische Studien ; Bd. 34 = African studies ; v. 34

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nation-building--Kenya.

Nation-building.

Elections--Kenya.

Elections.

Politics and government.

Kenya.

Kenya--Politics and government--1963-1978.

Kenya--Politics and government--1978-2002.

Kenya--Politics and government--2002-.

Kenya--Politics and government--20th century.

Physical Description:

ii, 303 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Lit ; London : Global [distributor], [2010]

Summary:

This book provides an overview of the troubled process of nation-building in post-colonial Kenya. Despite the distinctive features of the Moi and Kenyatta regimes, contributors make the case that since the late colonial period continuity, and not change, has been the dominant theme in Kenyan political life.

Contents:

Our turn to eat / Daniel Branch & Nic Cheeseman

Majimboism : the troubled history of an idea / David M. Anderson

An unstable foundation : taxation and development in Kenya, 1945-63 / Leigh Gardner

Government and opposition in Kenya, 1966-69 / Susanne Mueller

Going for cai at Gatundu : reversion to a Kikuyu ethnic past or building a Kenyan national future? / Ben Knighton

The political economy of agrarian laws in Kenya : legal impediments to socio-economic change, 1963-2002 / Cosmas Ochieng

Of national longing and the antinomies of post-colonial Kenya : the case of Eric Wainaina's Sawa Sawa / Joyce Nyairo

Histories of association and difference : the construction and negotiation of ethnicity / Gabrielle Lynch

Political parties, elections and ethnicity in Kenya / Sebastian Elishcher

Constitutional reform and the crisis of democratization in Kenya / Shadrack Nasong'o

The failure of nation-building and the Kenya crisis / Daniel Branch & Nic Cheeseman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-287) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Our turn to eat.

ISBN:

9783825898052

3825898059

OCLC:

648101989