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Author_Norman Miller
Author_Rodger Yeager
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Daniel Arap Moi
demographic transition Africa
East African development
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environmental sustainability Africa
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International Monetary Fund
KANU
Kenneth Matiba
Kenya Legislative Council
Kenya's Transition
Kenyan Economy
Kenyan Society
Kenyatta Era
Kenya’s Transition
Lake Victoria Basin
Maasai Mara National Reserve
Maendeleo Ya Wanawake
Martin Shikuku
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Modern Kenya
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Moi Government
Mwai Kibaki
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Oginga Odinga
Paul Muite
political economy of African nations
postcolonial state formation
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President Moi
Rodger Yeager
rural livelihoods analysis
socioeconomic inequality
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Tom Mboya
Wangari Maathai
West Germany
Young Kikuyu Association
Product details
- ISBN 9780813382029
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1993
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Kenya is one of Africa's most important and controversial nations. It has simultaneously been heralded for its political stability and economic success and criticized as a wellspring of elitism and class exploitation. Kenya remains a close ally of the West and a symbol of capitalism in Africa, and it occupies a position of strategic importance to the Middle East and the Indian Ocean. Yet all of these distinctions are now coming under question in the fourth decade of independence.Kenya's exquisite natural beauty and renowned wildlife refuges hide a more mundane reality. The country is vast, rural, poor, and without oil or other mineral wealth. It is dependent on smallholder agriculture and export earnings from international tourism, tea, and coffee. Although the population is only 28 million, less than 20 percent of Kenya's land area is readily available for dense human settlement. Population growth has slowed, but demographic pressures still pose very serious socioeconomic, ecological, and environmental challenges.In this second edition of a critically acclaimed profile, Miller and Yeager address these and other social issues while tracing political and economic developments from early precolonial times to the contemporary period and the recent fourth-term reelection of President Daniel arap Moi. The book captures the aggressive, self-confident spirit that characterizes Kenya and provides unique insights into how this nation of contemporary Africa is faring in its continuing quest for prosperity.
Norman Miller is professor at Dartmouth College and president of the African-Caribbean Institute. He has published extensively in the fields of African environment, health, and politics and currently serves as editor of the international research and policy bulletin AIDS and Society. He has taught at the University of Nairobi and has lived and w orked in East Africa for long periods since 1960. Rodger Yeager is professor of political science, adjunct professor of Afri>can history, and director of international studies at West Virginia University. His current research is focused on public-policy problems of natural resource conservation, rural development, and demographic change in eastern and southern Africa.
