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The Palgrave Handbook of Kenyan History, Hardback Book

The Palgrave Handbook of Kenyan History Hardback

Edited by Wanjala S. Nasong'o, Maurice N. Amutabi, Toyin Falola

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This volume covers Kenya’s history, society, culture, economics, politics, and environment from precolonial times through the first years of independence.

The book comprises twenty-one chapters divided into two parts.

Part I focuses on the long precolonial moment, detailing the nature of precolonial Kenyan societies and their economics, politics, gender dynamics, and social organization.

Part II examines Kenyan societies’ encounters with British colonialism, critically outlining the impact and implications of these encounters.

The volume concludes with an examination of political consolidation after the country’s attainment of political independence and the subsequent foundations for political authoritarianism.

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