02989cam a2200361 i 4500 ocn812688596 EG-ScBUE 20240626125251.0 121004s2013 enka f b 001 0 eng d 9781780765013 UKMGB eng rda UKMGB OCLCO BTCTA BDX YDXCP NLGGC WEA WEX I3U EG-ScBUE f-ke--- 22 967.6204 HOR Hornsby, Charles, author. 40134 Kenya : a history since independence / Charles Hornsby. New edition. London ; New York : I. B. Tauris, 2013. xviii, 958 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm rdacontent text txt unmediated rdamedia n volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Independence! -- Struggle for the state 1964-1965 -- Multi-party but not democracy 1966-1969 -- 'Golden years' 1970-1974 -- Rigor mortis 1975-1978 -- Too many cooks 1978-1983 -- Heavy footsteps 1984-1989 -- A second liberation? 1990-1992 -- Conflict and change 1993-1997 -- Unnatural succession 1998-2002 -- Back to the future 2003-2008 -- Cold war and compromise 2008-2011. "Since independence in 1963, Kenya has survived nearly five decades as a functioning nation-state, with regular elections, its borders intact and without experiencing war or military rule. However, Kenya's independence has always been circumscribed by its failure to transcend its colonial past; its governments have failed to achieve adequate living conditions for most of its citizens; and its politics have been fraught with controversy - illustrated most recently by the post-election protests and violence in 2007. The decisions of the early years of independence, and the acts of its leaders in the decades since - from Jomo Kenyatta, Tom Mboya and Oginga Odinga to Daniel arap Moi and Mwai Kibaki - have changed the country's path in unpredictable ways, but key themes of conflicts remain: over land, tribalism - including the simmering Kikuyu-Luo rivalries - money, power, national autonomy and the distribution of resources. The political elite's endless struggle for access to state resources has damaged Kenya's economy and the political exploitation of ethnicity still threatens the country's stability. In this definitive new history, Charles Hornsby demonstrates how independent Kenya's politics have been dominated by a struggle to deliver security, impartiality, efficiency and growth, but how the legacies of the past have continued to undermine their achievement, making the long-term future of Kenya far from certain."-- BUEsh Kenya History 1963- BUEsh Kenya Politics and government. BUEsh Kenya Economic conditions 1963- BUEsh Kenya Social conditions 1963- BUEsh BUSBOL June2016 Reading book ddc BB 21855 21827 0 0 ddc 0 0 Alahram MAIN MAIN 2ND 2016-06-08 Purchase 235.00 1 19 967.6204 HOR 000032639 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2017-02-04 293.75 2016-06-08 BB