Power and the Presidency in Kenya

Power and the Presidency in Kenya

The Jomo Kenyatta Years

Angelo, Anais (Universitat Wien, Austria)

Cambridge University Press

10/2019

322

Dura

Inglês

9781108494045

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Reconstructing Jomo Kenyatta's political biography and presidency in order to explore the links between his emergence as an uncontested leader and the deeper colonial and postcolonial history of Kenya, this is the first study to use Kenyatta as a basis for examining the origins of presidentialism in Africa.
Introduction; 1. Kenyatta's stateless political imagination; 2. From prison to party leader, an ambiguous ascension (1958-1961); 3. Kenyatta, land and decolonisation (1961-1963); 4. Independence and the making of a president (1963-1964); 5. Kenyatta, Meru politics and the last Mau Mau (1961/3-1965); 6. Taming oppositions: Kenyatta's 'secluded' politics (1964-1966); 7. Ruling over a divided political family (1965-1969); 8. 'Kenyatta simply will not contemplate his own death' (1970-1978); Conclusion; Sources; Bibliography; Index.