Anaïs Angelo

Power and the Presidency in Kenya

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781108494045
• ISBN-10: 1108494048
• Artikelnr.: 56928138

Autorenporträt

Anaïs Angelo is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Universität Wien, Austria, where her research focuses on the history of presidentialism, political biographies and women in politics in postcolonial Africa. She holds a Ph.D. in History from the European University Institute, Florence and has conducted extensive archival research in Kenya.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Kenyatta's stateless political imagination
2. From prison to party leader, an ambiguous ascension (1958-1961)
3. Kenyatta, land and decolonisation (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
Index.