Kenya After 50

1. Introduction
Michael Mwenda Kithinji, Mickie Mwanzia Koster, Jerono P. Rotich

Part I. Contesting History and Memories

2. The Demise and Rise of Majimbo in Independent Kenya
Robert M. Maxon

3. Recasting the Mau Mau Uprising: Reparations, Narration, and Memory
Mickie Mwanzia Koster

4. Rethinking the Shifta War Fifty Years after Independence: Myth, Memory, and Marginalization
Keren Weitzberg

5. “Rendillelane”: Spatial Views from the Periphery of Kenya
Hilah Segal-Klein

6. Politics and the Lack of Labor Militancy in Kenya: Trade Unionism after Independence
Eric E. Otenyo

Part II. Reassessing Politics and Policies

7. The Strategic Art of Appeasing Old Lovers while Courting New Friends: Kenya’s Foreign Relations in Retrospect
Mumo Nzau

8. Kenya at Fifty and the Betrayal of Nationalism: The Paradoxes of Two Family Dynasties
Wanjala S. Nasong’o

9. Elusive Justice: The Maasai Contestation of Land Appropriation in Kenya: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective
Ben Ole Koissaba

10. Kenya at Fifty: State Policing Reforms, Politics, and Law, 1963–2013
Wycliffe Nyachoti Otiso, Ruth Joyce Kaguta

11. Continuity and Change in Kenya’s Defense and Foreign Policies: The Impact of the New Security Dilemma
Oscar Gakuo Mwangi

Avainsanat: Science, Science, general