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Power and the Presidency in Kenya : the Jomo Kenyatta years
- Title
- Power and the Presidency in Kenya : the Jomo Kenyatta years / Anaïs Angelo.
- Author
- Angelo, Anaïs, 1987-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- ©2020
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- Description
- ix, 306 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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, Anaïs Angelo shows how the burning issues of land decolonization, the increasing centralization 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"--
- Series Statement
- African studies series ; 146
- Uniform Title
- African studies series ; 146.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Kenyatta's Stateless Political Imagination -- From Prison to Party Leader, an Ambiguous Ascension (1958-1961) -- Kenyatta, Land, and Decolonization (1961-1963) -- Independence and the Making of a President (1963-1964) -- Kenyatta, Meru Politics, and the Last Mau Mau (1961/3-1965) -- Taming Oppositions: Kenyatta's "Secluded" Politics (1964-1966) -- Ruling over a Divided Political Family (1965-1969) -- "Kenyatta Simply Will Not Contemplate His Own Death" -- (1970-1978) -- Conclusion
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-1096
- ISBN
- 9781108494045
- 1108494048
- 9781108713832
- 1108713831
- LCCN
- 2019037029
- OCLC
- 1114282563
- Author
- Angelo, Anaïs, 1987- author.
- Title
- Power and the Presidency in Kenya : the Jomo Kenyatta years / Anaïs Angelo.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- African studies series ; 146African studies series ; 146.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- Since 1963
- Other Form:
- Online version: Angelo, Anaïs, 1987- Power and the presidency in Kenya Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020 9781108625166 (DLC) 2019037030
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-1096