Author: Daniel KaranjaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780991062515
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Origins and Evolution of Kenya's International Boundaries
Author: Daniel KaranjaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780991062515
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Kenya
Author: Charles HornsbyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755627741
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1102
Book Description
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.
The Evolution of Kenya's International Boundaries
Author: African Boundaries
Author: Paul NugentPublisher: Pinter
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Discusses the development and function of African boundaries from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Beginning with the historical perspective, the book then considers the impact of boundaries on pastoralists, the use of borders as "cordons sanitaire" against diseases, and as places of refuge.
From Divided Pasts to Cohesive Futures
Author: Hiroyuki HinoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108476600
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
Offers an insightful yet readable study of the paths - and challenges - to social cohesion in Africa, by experienced historians, economists and political scientists.
Colonialism and Its Legacies
Author: Jacob T. LevyPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739142941
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Colonialism and Its Legacy brings together essays by leading scholars in both the fields of political theory and the history of political thought about European colonialism and its legacies, and postcolonial social and political theory. The essays explore the ways in which European colonial projects structured and shaped much of modern political theory, how concepts from political philosophy affected and were realized in colonial and imperial practice, and how we can understand the intellectual and social world left behind by a half-millennium of European empires. The volume ranges from the beginning of modernity to the present day, examining colonialism and colonial legacies in India, Africa, Latin America, and North America.
The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics
Author: Nic CheesemanPublisher:
ISBN: 0198815697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Kenyan Politics provides a comprehensive and comparative overview of the Kenyan political system as well as an insightful account of Kenyan history from 1930 to the present day.
African Peacekeeping
Author: Jonathan FisherPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108499376
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
An examination of how peacekeeping is woven into national, regional and international politics in Africa, and its consequences.
Delimitation and Demarcation of Boundaries in Africa
Author: History, Identity and the Bukusu-Bagisu Relations on the Kenya and Uganda Border
Author: Peter Wafula WekesaPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 166691925X
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
"This book examines the history of community relations across the Kenya-Uganda border using the case of the Bukusu and the Bagisu. From this microcosmic level, the book explores the social, economic, and political relations that have evolved between the two communities and states over time"--