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Post-Colonial Kenya - The Rise of an Authoritarian and Predatory State (Hardcover)
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Post-Colonial Kenya - The Rise of an Authoritarian and Predatory State (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary African Politics
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This engaging reassessment of postcolonial Kenya argues that the
country's political turmoil over the last fifteen years is a
continuation of repeating patterns of political contestation and
conflict across Kenya's history. When Kibaki stole the 2007
presidential election, leading to a spiral of violence that left
over 1,000 people dead in the space of a month, many analysts
wondered how this could happen in a country that had previously
been considered an oasis of peace in an otherwise conflict prone
region. Combining political economy with political sociology, in
this book Rok Ajulu demonstrates that in fact authoritarianism and
the predatory deployment of the state has been the predominant
feature of Kenya's post-colonial period. Focusing on how power has
been mediated in the country politically and the characters of the
elites in charge, the analysis shows the dominance of
extra-economic political coercion in economic activity. In a
context in which economic activity remains predominantly political,
continued control of state-power is so crucial for the new ruling
class that it must be retained at all costs. Rok Ajulu's masterful
final book is a powerful and wide-ranging contribution to studies
on post-colonial Kenya and will be an important resource for
researchers from across political science, economics, history,
sociology and African Studies.
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