Kenya after 50
Subtitle: reconfiguring historical, political, and policy milestones
By: [edited by] Michael Mwenda Kithinji, Mickie Mwanzia Koster, and Jerono P. Rotich
Series: African histories and modernities; African histories and modernities
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9781137574213
Subjects: Politics and government; History
Other titles: Kenya after fifty
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Section 1. Contesting history and memories; title: The demise and rise of Majimbo in independent Kenya  -- Robert M. Maxon; title: Recasting Kenyan history: Mau Mau reparations, narration, and memory  -- Mickie Mwanzia Koster; title: Rethinking the "Shifta War" fifty years after independence: myth, memory, and marginalization  -- Keren Weitzberg; title: Rendilelane: spatial views from the periphery of Kenya  -- Hilah Segal; title: Politics and the lack of labor militancy in Kenya: trade unionism after independence  -- Eric E. Otenyo -- Section 2. Reassessing policies and politics; title: The strategic art of appeasing old lovers while courting new friends: Kenya's foreign relations in retrospect  -- Mumo Nzau; title: Kenya at fifty and the betrayal of nationalism: the paradoxes of two family dynasties  -- Wanjala S. Nasongo; title: Elusive justice: the Maasai contestation of land appropriation in Kenya: a historical and contemporary perspective  -- Ben Ole Koissaba; title: Kenya at fifty: state policies reforms, politics and law, 1963-2013  -- Wycliffe Nyachoti Otiso and Ruth Joyce Kaguta; title: Continuity and change in Kenya's defense and foreign policy: the impact of the new security dilemma -- Oscar Gakuo Mwangi.