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African successes : four public managers of Kenyan rural development / David K. Leonard.

Title: African successes : four public managers of Kenyan rural development / David K. Leonard.
Author: Leonard, David K., 1941-
Publication: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1991.

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Description

xxxi, 375 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps; 24 cm

Summary

"For the past twenty-five years Kenya has progressed while much of Africa has stagnated. Instead of the economic disasters, underdevelopment, and serious food shortages that have plagued its neighbors, Kenya has enjoyed an expanding economy and agriculture. And instead of a corrupt and incompetent public administration, Kenya has established several successful rural development programs run by public servants with integrity and professional commitment. What accounts for these Kenyan successes? In this innovative study, David Leonard illustrates the way public policy is made and implemented in Kenya by focusing on four public officials who have had a great impact on rural development. He skillfully weaves his analyses of Kenya's political, economic, and administrative systems into evocative biographical portraits of Charles Karanja, General Manager of the Kenya Tea Development Authority, Harris Mule, administrative head of Finance and Planning, Ishmael Muriithi, head of the Veterinary Department, and Simeon Nyachae, Cabinet Secretary and chief of the Civil Service. The result is a fascinating glimpse of Kenyan political life from the inside, set in the context of the historical and social forces that have shaped that country's government"--Publisher's description.

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-361) and indexes.

Additional Formats (note)

A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.

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Contents

Simplified Family Trees of the Administrators Studied -- Introduction: Individuals, Institutions, and Interests -- An Example of Successful Management -- Successful Managers -- Rural Development Policies -- The Nature and Evolution of the Kenyan State -- A Modest Theoretical Framework -- Four Public Servants -- The Foundation -- Everything Has a History -- Disruption -- The Agricultural Economy -- The Missions -- Colonial African Administration -- The Emerging African Social Structure -- Monopoly and Control -- Growing Up and Out of Colonialism -- Charles Kibe Karanja -- Mau Mau from Kiambu -- Simeon Nyachae -- The Political Struggle for Independence -- Ishmael Muriithi -- Dan Mbogo -- Harris Mutio Mule -- Independence and the Emerging Class Structure -- The Political Background to the Republic -- The Colonial Class Structure -- Ethnic Tensions -- Africanization of the Civil Service -- Africanization and the Four Administrators -- Did "Tribalism" Overlay Africanization in the Civil Service? -- Africanizing Land Ownership -- Class Formation and the Matajiri -- Administrators and Land -- Africanizing Commerce and Industry -- Interests: The Interaction of Class and Ethnicity -- Nyachae and Administrative Power in the Kenyatta State -- The Institutional Legacy -- Nyachae and the Provincial Administration -- Administration of Land -- Political Representation and Control -- The Balance of Administrative and Political Power -- The Weberian Theory of Administrative Power Applied to Kenya.

ISBN

0520070755
9780520070752
0520070763
9780520070769

LCCN

90011089

OCLC

21672465
SCSB-11352332

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