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Kenyan Foreign and Security Policies : The Jomo Kenyatta Presidency and Legacy
Kenyan Foreign and Security Policies : The Jomo Kenyatta Presidency and Legacy
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Author(s): Cheluget, Kipyego
ISBN No.: 9781666962413
Pages: 240
Year: 202512
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 165.60
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

"Kipyego Cheluget and Stephen Wright evaluate the legacy of Kenyas first president, Jomo Kenyatta. Following a nationalist uprising and brutal colonial repression, Kenya became independent in December 1963. With much of the agricultural land still under European settler control, Jomo Kenyatta promoted foreign and security policies to balance Kenyan, African, and settler interests, attracting foreign investment into the new country. Kenyattas programs, however, favored the West and established a growing need for British and American security guarantees to sustain Kenya in an increasingly unstable Eastern African region. In this book, Cheluget and Wright show that despite the growing pressures within Kenyan civil society for diversification of policies and redistribution of economic wealth, Kenyatta consistently maintained pro-western policies until his death in 1978. This book is split into 3 parts. Part I discusses the growth of Kenyan nationalism, the end of the colonial era, and the birth of the Kenyan State. Part II considers the political economy and development strategies of the Kenyan State.


Part III assesses the degree of continuity of the succeeding leadership portrayed from the Jomo Kenyatta presidency. Through this detailed analysis, the authors examine Kenyattas policies and examine how successive Kenyan presidents have largely maintained his policies and venerated his legacy"-- Provided by publisher.


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