Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-521) and index.
Contents:
The long Kenyan century : a people's elusive quest for "the good life." Foreword / by Robert M. Maxon -- Inside the Mau Mau mind : "Returning the imperial" gaze in centennial perspective -- White man's country : the colonial foundations and legal architecture of the Kenyan state -- Colonial rupture : African experiential anxiety of transformation in time, space and place, 1900-1951 -- 52 minds on Kenya's destiny : the view from "the above" -- Drudgery in Pyrrhic victory : whither the fruits of independence? -- "Matigari ma Njirungi" : bifurcation, atomization and survival of the mentaliteĢ of struggle -- "Bado Mapambano," solidarity forever : latter-day travails of critical publics -- The long Kenyan century : a people's elusive quest for "the good life."
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