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Once the major success story of a troubled continent, by the early 1990s Kenya came to be regarded as its fallen star. This book challenges such images of reversal and the analytical polarities which sustain them. Based on several years of research in Kenya, the analysis ranges from telescopic to microscopic fields of vision - from national political culture, oratory, and the staging of politics, to everyday struggles for livelihood among people in one rural locale during the past century. This sliding scale of analysis allows the author to experiment theoretically with a number of themes informed by contemporary analytical tensions among post-modernist 'chaos', historical contingency, and structural regularities. The result is a study which combines many disciplines and perspectives to give a rich and varied picture of the culture of politics in twentieth-century Kenya.

Political culture --- Culture politique --- Kenya --- Politics and government --- Economic conditions --- Social conditions --- Politique et gouvernement --- Conditions économiques --- #SBIB:328H419 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:39A11 --- Instellingen en beleid: andere Afrikaanse landen --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- -Economic conditions --- -Social conditions --- -#SBIB:328H419 --- -Political culture --- Conditions économiques --- Sociology of the developing countries --- Kīnyā --- Kenia --- Kenii︠a︡ --- Chenia --- Cenia --- Government of Kenya --- Republic of Kenya --- GOK --- Jamhuri ya Kenya --- Kenya Colony and Protectorate --- Colony and Protectorate of Kenya --- ケニア --- קניה --- Ḳenyah --- Quênia --- كينيا --- Kīniyā --- 肯尼亚 --- Kenniya --- Кения --- Culture --- Political science --- Embu (Kenya : District) --- East Africa Protectorate --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions. --- Politics --- Economic conditions. Economic development --- Social Sciences --- Anthropology --- Political culture - Kenya. --- Embu District (Kenya)