The Politics of the Independence of Kenya

Kyle, Keith

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“…Coalition governance in Zimbabwe between Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) was ephemeral because of the ethnic dominance of one party resulting in mistrust and political turmoil (Sithole, 1986). In Kenya, the coalition government was driven more by the British's external influence as it claimed to create stability (Bennet, 1963;Kyle, 1999). In Nigeria, coalition governance was also swayed by the British government as an attempt to maintain territorial integrity but lacked principles and was ideologically dissonant to coalesce contending parties (Oyugi, 2006).…”

Section: Politics Of Coalition Governance In Africamentioning

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Coalition Governance: Unchartered Waters in South African Political Landscape

Makole

Ntshangase

Adewumi

2022

BEL

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Coalition governance in South Africa is adjudged as an opportunity for nation-building and social compact, which intends to jettison the apartheid legacy of racial and social separation. Coalition governance in South Africa quintessentially demonstrates a maturing nation-building project whereby political parties embrace a cohesive spirit for democratic governance and citizenship representation. However, the lack of consensus about a developmental posture to drive nation-building in South Africa put different political parties on antithetical dissimulations that undermine effective coalition governance in both national and local governmental spheres. An era of dominant party hegemony is approaching its final demise, which challenges political parties to build workable and collaborative consensus toward leading South Africa out of its current developmental stagnation. The study examines the challenges and opportunities of coalition governance in South Africa. The objective of the paper is to understand how coalition building can be a leverage for Nation building in the context of South African political structure. A qualitative study is undertaken by analyzing strategic and policy documents of political parties and journal articles to examine challenges and opportunities for coalition governance in South Africa. The thematic content analysis examines emerging patterns from primary and secondary documentary sources to generate relevant themes that influence and guide conceptualization, challenges, and opportunities for coalition governance in South Africa. Findings revealed that a major challenge for coalition governance in South Africa is political brinkmanship by political parties who negotiate in bad faith, demanding more concessions than votes garnered from election results, which demonstrates political immaturity. However, a positive aspect of coalition governance might be for parties to formalize binding coalition agreements that can serve as conflict management mechanisms that can compel parties to demonstrate reciprocal accountability during governance.

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Section: Politics Of Coalition Governance In Africamentioning

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Coalition Governance: Unchartered Waters in South African Political Landscape

Makole

Ntshangase

Adewumi

2022

BEL

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“…Although land occupation has a long history in Kenya, the 1960s marked a shift in the decolonization struggles over land, paving the way for the occupation of the colonial Crown Lands (see Berman and Lonsdale 1992; Branch 2009; Hornsby 2012; Kanyinga 1998; Leo 1989). Studies focusing on the post-1960 settlement (Wasserman 1976; Kyle 1999; Nottidge and Goldsack 1966; Leo 1989) have paid little attention to the question of the ways in which different ethnic groups formed relationships around the lands they occupied. Instead, they have focused on questions of land reform and its consequences (Leo 1981; Kanyinga 1998; Anderson and Lochery 2008).…”

Section: Competition and Collaboration: The History Of Land Settlemenmentioning

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Cooperation in the midst of violence: land deals and cattle raids in Narok and Laikipia, Kenya

Gravesen¹,

Kioko²

2019

Africa

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What drives the formation of ties and networks in ethnically hybrid spaces despite the occurrence of conflict? We approach this question by examining the actors involved, the institutions affected, and the economic and environmental contexts surrounding such tendencies. This study explores socially thick arrangements between Maasai and Kikuyu in Narok and their role in the non-violent use of formerly contested lands. In Laikipia, we examine how young Samburu and Kikuyu cooperate in a dangerous yet economically beneficial network involving cattle-rustling ventures. We revisit the history of land settlement in Kenya's Rift Valley, particularly in the study areas of Narok and Laikipia, and show how access and settlement rights to land are negotiated peacefully, encouraging ethnic assimilation and cooperative social and economic relations. Based on this context and the exploration of our case studies, we argue that the formation of alliances in multi-ethnic settings tends to override other identities when mutual benefits drive such associations.

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“…50 As Kyle has argued, 'the polices of Kenyatta's Government, officially non-aligned, possessed a quite definite tilt towards the West'. 51 In aid, investment, and military deals, Britain remained Kenya's largest and most prominent partner. Kenya was not as obviously tied to a Cold War side as some African states, but Kenya's ideological leanings and partnerships were apparent.…”

Section: Kenyan Foreign Policymentioning

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‘Playing Cold War politics’: the cold war in Anglo-Kenyan relations in the 1960s

Cullen

2017

Cold War History

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in the 1960s 'It will be a difficult task keeping Africa clear of ideologies. There will be the Cold War growling its thunder around us'. 1 So wrote leading Kenyan politician Tom Mboya in 1963, the year of Kenyan independence from the British Empire. The Cold War certainly had a striking influence on the African continent as countries gained independence from European colonialism and sought to carve out independent foreign policies. In Kenya, the influence of the Cold War has most often been explored in the realm of domestic politics and the factional disputes of the early 1960s between the American-backed Mboya, Minister for Economic Planning and Development, and Vice President Oginga Odinga, who fostered relations with communist countries. This article will focus on the 1960s, when Kenya publicly committed to the common African tropes of non-alignment and African Socialism, but, despite this, under the leadership of President Jomo Kenyatta favoured the West, and had especially close links to Britain. Recent scholarship has stressed the importance of the Cold War in contexts beyond the superpowers or their most obvious allies. 2 Following Westad, historians' attention has turned to the global nature of the Cold War. 3 For African countries, the Cold War could be beneficial in giving the continent a significance for the international community that it might otherwise have lacked. In his study of Africa during the Cold War period, Reynolds has argued that Cold War competition 'offered African leaders and activists opportunities and options that simply had not existed a decade or two before'. 4 On this reading, this was in fact an advantageous time for decolonization to occur, as it gave increased opportunities to negotiate relationships. McKay, writing in 1966, even went so far as to suggest that 'although Africans often tell the West to "keep the Cold War out of Africa", some of them regard it as a blessing in disguise'. 5 The

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The Politics of the Independence of Kenya

Cited by 88 publications

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Coalition Governance: Unchartered Waters in South African Political Landscape

Coalition Governance: Unchartered Waters in South African Political Landscape

Cooperation in the midst of violence: land deals and cattle raids in Narok and Laikipia, Kenya

‘Playing Cold War politics’: the cold war in Anglo-Kenyan relations in the 1960s

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