Kenya and the Politics of a Postcolony by Wanjala S. Nasongo - 9781839980275

Kenya and the Politics of a PostcolonyAuthor(s): Wanjala S. Nasongo\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Anthem Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Anthem Press\nISBN-13: 9781839980275, 978-1839980275\nSynopsis\nThis book sets out to probe, explore and evaluate the betrayal of anticolonial nationalism in Kenya. Contemporary Kenyas emergence is rooted in the colonial enterprise, its deleterious effects and the subsequent decolonization spearheaded by a fierce anti-colonial nationalism that was embodied in freedom struggles at the cultural, political, and military levels. As a settler colony, the colonial settlers hived off millions of hectares of the best land in the highland areas of Kenya and appropriated them for themselves thereby generating a large mass of the landless. This land alienation constituted one of the most deeply felt grievances which, together with the exclusivist, exploitative and oppressive colonial system, inflamed anti-colonial nationalism that undergirded the struggle for .