Power and the presidency in Kenya : the Jomo Kenyatta years

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dc.contributor.authorANGELO, Anais
dc.date.accessioned2019-11-06T09:16:23Z
dc.date.available2019-11-06T09:16:23Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractIn 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.en
dc.description.tableofcontents-- Introduction -- 1 Kenyatta’s Stateless Political Imagination -- 2 From Prison to Party Leader, an Ambiguous Ascension(1958–1961) -- 3 Kenyatta, Land, and Decolonization (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 -- Indexen
dc.description.versionPublished version of EUI PhD thesis, 2016
dc.identifier.citationCambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019, African studiesen
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/9781108625166
dc.identifier.isbn9781108494045
dc.identifier.isbn9781108713832
dc.identifier.isbn9781108625166
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/64824
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dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen
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dc.titlePower and the presidency in Kenya : the Jomo Kenyatta yearsen
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