Kenya : the quest for prosperity
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Kenya : the quest for prosperity
（Westview profiles, . Nation of contemporary Africa）
Westview Press, 1994
2nd ed
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-232) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780813382012
Description
Kenya today is strategically one of Africa's most important, yet controversial countries. Although beautiful, it is also vast, rural and poor, with no mineral resources, only a fraction of its land available for dense human settlement, and demographic pressures continuing to pose very serious socioeconomic, ecological and environmental challenges. This second edition of a national profile addresses these and other social issues facing Kenya in the 1990s, as well as tracing the country's political and economic developments from early pre-colonial times to the present day.
Table of Contents
- The colonial legacy
- independence
- the Kenyatta era
- modern society and ecology
- modern politics
- the Moi era
- modern economic realities
- the international dimension.
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: pbk ISBN 9780813382029
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Kenya is one of Africa's most important and controversial nations. It has simultaneously been heralded for its political stability and economic success and criticized as a wellspring of elitism and class exploitation. Kenya remains a close ally of the West and a symbol of capitalism in Africa, and it occupies a position of strategic importance to the Middle East and the Indian Ocean. Yet all of these distinctions are now coming under question in the fourth decade of independence.Kenya's exquisite natural beauty and renowned wildlife refuges hide a more mundane reality. The country is vast, rural, poor, and without oil or other mineral wealth. It is dependent on smallholder agriculture and export earnings from international tourism, tea, and coffee. Although the population is only 28 million, less than 20 percent of Kenya's land area is readily available for dense human settlement. Population growth has slowed, but demographic pressures still pose very serious socioeconomic, ecological, and environmental challenges.In this second edition of a critically acclaimed profile, Miller and Yeager address these and other social issues while tracing political and economic developments from early precolonial times to the contemporary period and the recent fourth-term reelection of President Daniel arap Moi. The book captures the aggressive, self-confident spirit that characterizes Kenya and provides unique insights into how this nation of contemporary Africa is faring in its continuing quest for prosperity.
Table of Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- The Colonial Legacy -- Independence: The Kenyatta Era -- Ecology and Society in Modern Kenya -- Modern Politics: The Moi Era -- Modern Economic Realities -- The International Dimension -- Kenya at the Crossroads of Development
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