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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Section One - Contextualising History -- Chapter One - Thoughts on History as the Cement of Society -- Introduction -- The challenges -- Recitation of dates -- Propagation of myths -- Records of the past -- Irrelevant and useless discipline -- Contemporary Kenya -- The Mau Mau legacy and influence -- The class structure -- Post-modern colonialism -- Conclusion: history as the cement of society -- Chapter Two - Hazards of Post-modern Colonialism in Kenya -- Introduction -- Classical colonialism -- Neo-colonialism, 1963 to 1990 -- Kenyatta and neo-colonialism, 1963-1978 -- Moi and neo-colonialism, 1978-1990 -- Post-modern colonialism, since 1990 -- Moi and post-modern colonialism -- Kibaki and post-modern colonialism -- Conclusion: the hazards of post-modern colonialism -- Chapter Three - Africans and their Interpreters in International Relations -- Introduction -- White and black interpreters and the colonial state -- Euro-American rivalry in the 1950s -- Creating the African Studies Association in the United States -- Interpreting Africa in the 1960s -- Ideological debates and the rise of the tyrants, the 1970s and 1980s -- Interpreting the post-cold war -- Conclusion: Africans and their interpreters -- Chapter Four - Africans and Intellectual Adventurism: East Africa's Intellectual Warriors -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- V -- VI -- VII -- VIII -- Section Two - Socio-economic and Political Setting -- Chapter Five - The Creation of Poverty -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Chapter Six - The Colonial Origins of Central Kenya Bashing -- The roots of colonial Gikuyu bashing, 1900-1957 -- Responding to colonial Gikuyu bashing -- Responding to Gikuyu bashing in post-colonial Kenya -- Conclusion -- Section Three - Post-colonial Kenya.
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Section One - Contextualising History; Chapter One - Thoughts on History as the Cement of Society; Introduction; The challenges; Recitation of dates; Propagation of myths; Records of the past; Irrelevant and useless discipline; Contemporary Kenya; The Mau Mau legacy and influence; The class structure; Post-modern colonialism; Conclusion: history as the cement of society; Chapter Two - Hazards of Post-modern Colonialism in Kenya; Introduction; Classical colonialism; Neo-colonialism, 1963 to 1990
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Kenyatta and neo-colonialism, 1963-1978Moi and neo-colonialism, 1978-1990; Post-modern colonialism, since 1990; Moi and post-modern colonialism; Kibaki and post-modern colonialism; Conclusion: the hazards of post-modern colonialism; Chapter Three - Africans and their Interpreters in International Relations; Introduction; White and black interpreters and the colonial state; Euro-American rivalry in the 1950s; Creating the African Studies Association in the United States; Interpreting Africa in the 1960s; Ideological debates and the rise of the tyrants, the 1970s and 1980s
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Interpreting the post-cold warConclusion: Africans and their interpreters; Chapter Four - Africans and Intellectual Adventurism: East Africa's Intellectual Warriors; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; VII; VIII; Section Two - Socio-economic and Political Setting; Chapter Five - The Creation of Poverty; I; II; III; IV; Chapter Six - The Colonial Origins of Central Kenya Bashing; The roots of colonial Gikuyu bashing, 1900-1957; Responding to colonial Gikuyu bashing; Responding to Gikuyu bashing in post-colonial Kenya; Conclusion; Section Three - Post-colonial Kenya
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Chapter Seven - A Political Overview of Post-colonial Kenya, 1963-2002Introduction; Uhuru na Kenyatta; Kenyatta's presidency in the 1960s; Repression in the 1970s; The Moi political honeymoon; Imposing the fimbo ideology; Challenges to the fimbo ideology; Yote yawezekana; Conclusion; Chapter Eight - The Print Media and Political Change in Kenya, 1958-1998; Introduction; The Nation; Print media and Kenyatta's last decade, 1968-1978; The press and the evolution of Moi's fimbo ideology, 1978-1988; Media challenge and resistance to fimbo ideology; Conclusion
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Section Four - Topical Issues of ConcernChapter Nine - The Role of the Media in Fighting Corruption: The Best Practices; I; II; III; Chapter Ten - Expectations and Disappointments in Africa-US Relations; Introduction; African pre-independence period; The cold war period; Post cold war period; Focus on Kenya; Conclusion; Suggested Bibliography; Index; Back cover
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789966792136
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Historical Reflections on Kenya : Intellectual Adventurism, Politics and International Relations
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