ASAUK 2018

This is a comprehensive and multilayered narrative of empire-building in East Africa and the radical process of social change wrought by imperialism, and Kenyatta as the embodiment of anti-colonialism and, ultimately, a powerful statesman. It is an account of individual agency; not just of the man but, also, other key colonial and postcolonial players, as well as being, simultaneously, a structural analysis of the socioeconomic transformation of African societies by colonial capitalism. I focus on the multi-agent process of structural reproduction following a system of ideas, values and beliefs that actors use to produce socioeconomic and political structures as a matter of routine.