By Charles Hornsby
Read Online or Download Kenya: A History Since Independence PDF
Best africa books
Shorelines: A Journey Along the South African Coast
Award successful trip writers Chris Marais and Julienne du Toit pack their trusty bakkie and force the complete size of South Africa's seashores, from Alexander Bay within the west to Kosi Bay within the east, assembly the bizarre and the glorious, the felony and the loopy components of seashore South Africa en path.
Coppernica, a rustic which bears a terrifying fictional resemblance to the Belgian Congo, is engaged within the fight for independence, the blood of violence, the clinging greed and moribund assumptions of white imperialism. Caute, additionally a political historian (Communism and the French Intellectuals, 1914-1960) has a dramatic grab of heritage; he's capable of make this ebook converse via person realities in the scope of its setting--Africa, Europe and the U.
Kenya: A History Since Independence
On account that independence in 1963, Kenya has survived approximately 5 a long time as a functioning countryside, with common elections, its borders intact, and with out experiencing struggle or army rule. even though, Kenya's independence has continuously been circumscribed by way of its failure to go beyond its colonial previous: its governments have did not in achieving enough residing stipulations for many of its electorate and its politics were fraught with controversy - illustrated so much lately through the post-election protests and violence in 2007.
Additional resources for Kenya: A History Since Independence
Example text
This ended with the 2007 elections, the shattering violence of January–February 2008 and its aftermath in the creation of Kenya’s first true coalition. An epilogue, Chapter 13, covers events since April 2008. The ‘grand coalition’ endured, but struggled to solve Kenya’s problems, with the notable exception of a new constitution, which was inaugurated in 2010 with great hope but with huge risks as well. Chapter 14, the conclusion, reprises the themes of the book. It weaves together a picture of how Kenya’s politics have been dominated by a struggle to deliver security, efficiency and growth, but how a few divisive political themes and the legacies of the past have undermined their achievements, making the long-term future of Kenya’s institutions and the security of the country’s people far from certain.
Indian immigrants also brought new forms of Islam and the Hindu religion into urban areas. Although Christianity first arrived in Kenya during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it had little impact until the twentieth century. The British conquest saw the Bible arrive alongside the gun, as missionaries moved into Kenya in the 1890s and 1900s. The result was the rapid growth of competing evangelical missions from European Christian communities. These included the Anglican Church Missionary Society, the Presbyterian Church of Scotland Mission, the African Inland Mission/Church, Methodists, Pentecostal churches, Quakers and the Catholic Church.
Indb 32 14/11/2011 10:59:46 Independence! 33 mixture of Muslim Arabs, Swahili, Mijikenda and growing numbers of upcountry workers, particularly Luo and Kamba, working around the port. Smaller settlements included Kisumu and Nakuru. Originally, the urban areas were designed for permanent European and Asian occupation only, with Africans regarded as temporary visitors. This policy soon broke down, but strict racial segregation was still observed, and most urban land was European or Asian owned until the 1960s.