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Post-Colonial Kenya: The Rise of an Authoritarian and Predatory State

Post-Colonial Kenya: The Rise of an Authoritarian and Predatory State

Ajulu, Rok

Paperback

Series: Contemporary African Politics

General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032030585
ISBN13: 9781032030586
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 31 2023
Pages: 198
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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