1st Edition

Post-Colonial Kenya The Rise of an Authoritarian and Predatory State

By Rok Ajulu Copyright 2021
210 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This engaging reassessment of postcolonial Kenya argues that the country’s political turmoil over the last fifteen years is a continuation of repeating patterns of political contestation and conflict across Kenya’s history. When Kibaki stole the 2007 presidential election, leading to a spiral of violence that left over 1,000 people dead in the space of a month, many analysts wondered how this... Read more

Part I  Chapter 1: Introduction  Part II  Chapter 2: The Origins of the Political Power of the Post-colonial Elite and the Making of the Post-Colony  Chapter 3: Independence and the Struggle for the Control of the Post-colonial State: 1963 -1969  Chapter 4: Kenyatta and the Making of an Authoritarian State, 1969 – 1978  Chapter 5: Moi’s Presidency and the Consolidation of Authoritarian Rule  Part III  Chapter 6: Sunset on the Moi Regime, 1992 -2002  Chapter 7: Kibaki and the Return of the Mount Kenya Crowd  Epilogue

Biography

Rok Ajulu (1950-2016) was a renowned Kenyan academic and internationalist. A political economist, he obtained his DPhil from Sussex University then taught successively at Leeds University (1990-1994), Rhodes University (1994-2003), the University of the Witwatersrand (2003-2007) and thereafter at the University of South Africa (2008-2010) as a research professor.