Kenya after 50 reconfiguring historical, political, and policy milestones / edited by Michael Mwenda Kithinji, Mickie Mwanzia Koster, and Jerono P. Rotich.

Other author Kithinji, Michael Mwenda.
Other author Mwanzia Koster, Mickie.
Other author Rotich, Jerono P.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoHoundmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Descriptionvi, 277 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
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Parallel title Kenya after fifty
SeriesAfrican histories and modernities
African histories and modernities. ^A1334167
Contents Section 1. Contesting history and memories -- The demise and rise of Majimbo in independent Kenya / Robert M. Maxon -- Recasting Kenyan history: Mau Mau reparations, narration, and memory / Mickie Mwanzia Koster -- Rethinking the "Shifta War" fifty years after independence: myth, memory, and marginalization / Keren Weitzberg -- Rendilelane: spatial views from the periphery of Kenya / Hilah Segal -- Politics and the lack of labor militancy in Kenya: trade unionism after independence / Eric E. Otenyo -- Section 2. Reassessing policies and politics -- The strategic art of appeasing old lovers while courting new friends: Kenya's foreign relations in retrospect / Mumo Nzau -- Kenya at fifty and the betrayal of nationalism: the paradoxes of two family dynasties / Wanjala S. Nasongo -- Elusive justice: the Maasai contestation of land appropriation in Kenya: a historical and contemporary perspective / Ben Ole Koissaba -- Kenya at fifty: state policies reforms, politics and law, 1963-2013 / Wycliffe Nyachoti Otiso and Ruth Joyce Kaguta -- Continuity and change in Kenya's defense and foreign policy: the impact of the new security dilemma / Oscar Gakuo Mwangi.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2015024442
ISBN9781137574213 (hardback : alk. paper)