Screen LibraryPower and the Presidency in Kenya : the Jomo Kenyatta years /
"In December 1963, Kenya formally declared its independence yet it would take a year of intense negotiations for it to transform into a presidential republic, with Jomo Kenyatta as its first president. Archival records of the independence negotiations, however, reveal that neither the British c...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2020. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
African studies series ;
146 |
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| Summary: |
"In December 1963, Kenya formally declared its independence yet it would take a year of intense negotiations for it to transform into a presidential republic, with Jomo Kenyatta as its first president. Archival records of the independence negotiations, however, reveal that neither the British colonial authorities nor the Kenyan political elite foresaw the formation of a presidential regime that granted one man almost limitless executive powers. Even fewer expected Jomo Kenyatta to remain president until his death in 1978. Power and the Presidency in Kenya reconstructs Kenyatta's political biography, exploring the links between his ability to emerge as an uncontested leader and the deeper colonial and postcolonial history of the country. In describing Kenyatta's presidential style as discreet and distant, Anaïs Angelo shows how the burning issues of land decolonization, the increasing centralization of executive powers, and the repression of political oppositions shaped Kenyatta's politics. Telling the story of state-building through political biography, Angelo reveals how historical contingency and structural developments shaped both a man and an institution - the president and the presidency"-- |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 306 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-303) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108494045 1108494048 9781108713832 1108713831 |
| Index Number: | DT433 |
| CLC: |
D742.42 K834.247 |
| Call Number: | K834.247/K378A |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Kenyatta's Stateless Political Imagination -- From Prison to Party Leader, an Ambiguous Ascension (1958-1961) -- Kenyatta, Land, and Decolonization (1961-1963) -- Independence and the Making of a President (1963-1964) -- Kenyatta, Meru Politics, and the Last Mau Mau (1961/3-1965) -- Taming Oppositions: Kenyatta's "Secluded" Politics (1964-1966) -- Ruling over a Divided Political Family (1965-1969) -- "Kenyatta Simply Will Not Contemplate His Own Death" -- (1970-1978) -- Conclusion |