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They also highlight some of the shortcomings of ideas about development. explore the limitations of narrowly structuralist Maxist theory of the state, and reflect on the role of history in the future of Africa.
This book offers a genealogical critique of how food scarcity was governed in colonial Kenya. With an approach informed by the ‘analysis of government’, the study accounts for the emergence and persistence of dominant approaches to promoting food security in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa – policies and practices that prioritize increased agricultural production as the principal means of achieving food security. Drawing on a range of archival sources, the book investigates how those tasked with governing colonial Kenya confronted food as a particular kind of problem. It emphasizes the ways in which that problem shifted in conjunction with the emergence and consolidation of the colonial state and economic relations in the territory. The book applies a novel conceptual approach to the historical study of African food systems and famine, and provides the first longitudinal and in-depth analysis of the dynamics of food scarcity and its government in Kenya.
In this book the author examines the efforts of the colonial regime to shape the process of decolonization in Kenya from the end of World War II until independence in 1963, focusing on the conflict between the state’s two imperatives–promoting economic development and establishing and maintaining control. Dr. Gordon reviews the different political
This engaging reassessment of postcolonial Kenyan political history develops a theory of historical change and the role of leading figures in it. Combining political economy with political sociology it demonstrates how violence following the contested presidential election of 2007 represented, to a much more extreme extent, a continuation of the pattern of political contestation that has repeated itself throughout Kenya's political history. Like many other sub-Saharan countries, Kenya's authoritarianism and the predatory deployment of the state has been the predominant feature of the post-colonial period. To understand the roots of political crisis and obstacles to democratization in Kenya, Rok Ajulu focuses attention on the character of the post-colonial state, its forms of accumulation, the character of the elites which control it, and how this power is mediated politically. This analysis shows that, precisely because extra-economic coercion remains the dominant medium in economic activity, economy and society remain locked together in the sphere of politics and thus most economic activity also remains predominantly political. Economic mobility and expansion of the new ruling class is largely tied to continued control of state-power and this control is so crucial it must be retained at all costs.
became the object of political competition and conflict.
The study of Africa arouses many passions and prejudices which are the subject of this book. This book seeks to examine the hegemonic role that African studies has played in the invention of Africanism. Politics within Kenya remains entrapped by Western constructions of institutions and the practice of politics. The post-colonial period is linked inextricably to the colonial period. Kenya's political, economic, social and cultural framework has been and continues to be dominated by the colonial legacy. The discussion of Africanism earlier suggests that the decolonisation process did not achieve liberation fully, except in the narrowest of political terms. Rather, the West continued its dominance by more subtle means which has permeated the very imagination of the colonised. It is this continuing colonisation of the imagination which dominates the political scene. The ever increasing hegemonic role of donor agencies and donor countries, under the guise of structural adjustment programmes, ensures that countries such as Kenya become hostage to the latest manifestation of Africanism.