Historical Reflections on Kenya Intellectual Adventurism, Politics and International Relations / Macharia Munene.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Munene, Macharia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kenya--Colonization.

Kenya.

Kenya--Intellectual life.

Kenya--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (227 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Nairobi : University of Nairobi Press (UONP), 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

This book thematically tackles issues that relate to the perpetual struggle between the forces of control and the forces of mental and intellectual liberation in Africa and Kenya in particular. The book addresses the colonial legacy of poverty creation, as well as the socio-political conditioning of Africans to dislike each other and to be irresponsible and disunited in the face of external threats. Poverty, hatred of other Africans, and excessive dependency on European powers can be traced to the policies adopted by colonial officials. Related to these issues, is post-colonial Kenya's attempts to addresses the political developments, the involvement of different types of media in those developments, Kenya's foreign policy, and the problem of political party transition. Ultimately, there are topical issues that continue to affect Kenya which include the question of coalition politics, the lessons of the 2002 elections, the media and corruption, parliament and foreign policy, and Africa's relations with the United States of America.

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Section One - Contextualising History; Chapter One - Thoughts on History as the Cement of Society; Introduction; The challenges; Recitation of dates; Propagation of myths; Records of the past; Irrelevant and useless discipline; Contemporary Kenya; The Mau Mau legacy and influence; The class structure; Post-modern colonialism; Conclusion: history as the cement of society; Chapter Two - Hazards of Post-modern Colonialism in Kenya; Introduction; Classical colonialism; Neo-colonialism, 1963 to 1990

Kenyatta and neo-colonialism, 1963-1978Moi and neo-colonialism, 1978-1990; Post-modern colonialism, since 1990; Moi and post-modern colonialism; Kibaki and post-modern colonialism; Conclusion: the hazards of post-modern colonialism; Chapter Three - Africans and their Interpreters in International Relations; Introduction; White and black interpreters and the colonial state; Euro-American rivalry in the 1950s; Creating the African Studies Association in the United States; Interpreting Africa in the 1960s; Ideological debates and the rise of the tyrants, the 1970s and 1980s

Interpreting the post-cold warConclusion: Africans and their interpreters; Chapter Four - Africans and Intellectual Adventurism: East Africa's Intellectual Warriors; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; Section Two - Socio-economic and Political Setting; Chapter Five - The Creation of Poverty; I; II; III; IV; Chapter Six - The Colonial Origins of Central Kenya Bashing; The roots of colonial Gikuyu bashing, 1900-1957; Responding to colonial Gikuyu bashing; Responding to Gikuyu bashing in post-colonial Kenya; Conclusion; Section Three - Post-colonial Kenya

Chapter Seven - A Political Overview of Post-colonial Kenya, 1963-2002Introduction; Uhuru na Kenyatta; Kenyatta's presidency in the 1960s; Repression in the 1970s; The Moi political honeymoon; Imposing the fimbo ideology; Challenges to the fimbo ideology; Yote yawezekana; Conclusion; Chapter Eight - The Print Media and Political Change in Kenya, 1958-1998; Introduction; The Nation; Print media and Kenyatta's last decade, 1968-1978; The press and the evolution of Moi's fimbo ideology, 1978-1988; Media challenge and resistance to fimbo ideology; Conclusion

Section Four - Topical Issues of ConcernChapter Nine - The Role of the Media in Fighting Corruption: The Best Practices; I; II; III; Chapter Ten - Expectations and Disappointments in Africa-US Relations; Introduction; African pre-independence period; The cold war period; Post cold war period; Focus on Kenya; Conclusion; Suggested Bibliography; Index; Back cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

912318006