The Politics of the Independence of Kenya (Contemporary History in Context)
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (990 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312222017 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 278 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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BookWoman said Good read of history up to Independence. This book was a good read - informative and absorbing, unlike so many dry books about Kenya's independence that are out there. Kyle was a journalist in Kenya at the time of Uhuru and he has a journalist's flair for writing. You get not just the facts but his spin on the personalities involved as well. My only disappointment was that the book ends immediately after independence, with only a brief postscript to describe any of the history following. Moi's presidency is not covered at all. Too bad he didn't write another book on Kenya's more recent history.
“The combination of research and personal observation, separated by a gap of some thirty-five years, brings a unique blend of authority and immediacy to the book.” —John Lonsdale, Trinity College, Cambridge“ as a primer for understanding this period and as a work of good common sense this book has much merit.” —Internationa Journal of African Historical Studies
Keith Kyle reported from Kenya on BBC television during these stirring events.. It is a story of strong personalities--of Jomo Kenyatta, after nine years of prison and restriction, emerging as the savior of his country; of Tom Mboya, the talented young man who out-debated, out-maneuvered, and out-shone whites and blacks alike, but who generated an amazing degree of hatred and died by an assassin's bullet; of Iain Macleod, who made the crucial recognition that Kenya was a black African country; and of Malcolm MacDonald, without whom it could still have all ended in disaster. The remarkable story of how Kenya traveled, in a very few years, from the trauma of violent revolution to peaceful independence is retold here with full access to official documents