Description
Book SynopsisThis book explores the journey that Kenya has travelled as a nation since its independence on December 12, 1963. It seeks to advance understanding of the country's major milestones in the postcolonial period, the challenges and the lessons that can be learned from this experience, and the future prospects.
Trade Review“These two volumes in the "African Histories and Modernities" series, designed to provide a voice for African scholarship, do just that. … This important book makes it clear that the future is still up for grabs, but that the current generation of scholars owns the past. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.” (W. Arens, Choice, Vol. 54 (3), November, 2016)
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Section 1 – Contesting History and Memories
Chapter 1: The Demise and Rise of Majimbo in Independent Kenya - Robert M. Maxon
Chapter 2: Recasting Kenyan History: Mau Mau Reparations, Narration, and Memory- Mickie Mwanzia Koster
Chapter 3: Rethinking the “Shifta War” Fifty Years after Independence: Myth, Memory, and Marginalization - Keren Weitzberg
Chapter 4: Rendilelane: Spatial Views from the Periphery of Kenya- Hilah Segal- Klein
Chapter 5: Politics and the Lack of Labor Militancy in Kenya: Trade Unionism After Independence - Eric E. Otenyo
Section 2: Reassessing Policies and Politics
Chapter 6: The Strategic Art of Appeasing Old Lovers while Courting New Friends: Kenya’s Foreign Relations in Retrospect- Mumo Nzau
Chapter 7: Kenya At Fifty and the Betrayal of Nationalism: The Paradoxes of Two Family Dynasties –Wanjala S. Nasongo
Chapter 8: Elusive Justice: The Maasai Contestation of Land Appropriation in Kenya: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective - Ben Ole Koissaba
Chapter 9: Kenya at Fifty: State Policies Reforms, Politics and Law, 1963-2013 - Wycliffe Nyachoti Otiso and Ruth Joyce Kaguta
Chapter 10: Continuity and Change in Kenya’s Defense and Foreign Policy: The Impact of the New Security Dilemma- Oscar Gakuo Mwangi
