Power and the presidency in Kenya : the Jomo Kenyatta years
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Power and the presidency in Kenya : the Jomo Kenyatta years
（African studies series, 146）
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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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. 276-303) and index
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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, Angelo shows how the burning issues of land decolonisation, the increasing centralisation 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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Kenyatta's stateless political imagination
- 2. From prison to party leader, an ambiguous ascension (1958-1961)
- 3. Kenyatta, land and decolonisation (1961-1963)
- 4. Independence and the making of a president (1963-1964)
- 5. Kenyatta, Meru politics and the last Mau Mau (1961/3-1965)
- 6. Taming oppositions: Kenyatta's 'secluded' politics (1964-1966)
- 7. Ruling over a divided political family (1965-1969)
- 8. 'Kenyatta simply will not contemplate his own death' (1970-1978)
- Conclusion
- Sources
- Bibliography
- Index.
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