The politics of control in Kenya: Understanding the bureaucratic-executive state, 1952–78
@article{Branch2006ThePO, title={The politics of control in Kenya: Understanding the bureaucratic-executive state, 1952–78}, author={Daniel Branch and Nick Cheeseman}, journal={Review of African Political Economy}, year={2006}, volume={33}, pages={11 - 31} }
Colonial rule in Kenya witnessed the emergence of a profoundly unbalanced institutional landscape. With all capacity resided in a strong prefectural provincial administration, political parties remained underdeveloped. The co-option of sympathetic African elites during the colonial twilight into the bureaucracy, the legislature and the private property-based economy meant that the allies of colonialism and representatives of transnational capital were able to reap the benefits of independence…
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