Kenya's Independence Constitution [electronic resource] : Constitution-Making and End of Empire.
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TextPublication details: Lanham : Fairleigh Dickinson, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (361 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781611470536 (electronic bk.)
- 1611470536 (electronic bk.)
- Decolonization -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century
- Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963
- Kenya -- Politics and government -- To 1963
- Kenya. Constitution (1963)
- Kenya. Constitution (1963)
- Decolonization -- Kenya -- History -- 20th century
- Kenya -- Politics and government -- To 1963
- Kenya -- History -- 1895-1963
- LAW / Constitutional
- LAW / Public
- 342.676202
- KSK1744.51963 .A5 2011
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KENYA'S INDEPENDENCE CONSTITUTION; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1. Background to Constitution-Making and Decolonization; 2. Pressures for a New Constitution: Kenya, 1960-61; 3. Majimbo Takes Center Stage; 4. The Battle for Majimbo: Lancaster House II; 5. Making the Constitution, April-December 1962; 6. Completing the Constitution, December 1962-April 1963; 7. The 1963 Election and Setting a Date for Independence; 8. Change the Constitution Part 1, April-September 1963.
9. Change the Constitution Part 2: Lancaster House III and Kenya's Independence Constitution, September-December 196310. Constitution-Making: Uhuru na Majimbo; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Kenya's Independence Constitution, by Robert M. Maxon, details the evolution of Kenya's constitution during the final stage of decolonization. Starting with the close of the first Lancaster House conference of 1960, Maxon illuminates the many influences that shaped Kenya's constitution-making. It concludes in 1963, coinciding with the end of empire, when political ethnicity dominated discourse. While the self-government constitution provided for majimbo, or federal constitution, the winning party in the 1963 elections changed the constitution such that federalism's life expectancy was brief.
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