Kenya: The Quest For Prosperity, Second Edition (Westview Profiles/Nations of Contemporary Africa) - Hardcover

Miller, Norman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813382017 ISBN 13: 9780813382012

Publisher: Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

Kenya today is strategically one of Africa's most important, yet controversial countries. Although beautiful, it is also vast, rural and poor, with no mineral resources, only a fraction of its land available for dense human settlement, and demographic pressures continuing to pose very serious socioeconomic, ecological and environmental challenges. This second edition of a national profile addresses these and other social issues facing Kenya in the 1990s, as well as tracing the country's political and economic developments from early pre-colonial times to the present day.

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About the Author

Norman Miller is professor at Dartmouth College and president of the African-Caribbean Institute. Rodger Yeager is professor of political science, adjunct professor of African history, and director of international studies at West Virginia University. Norman Miller is professor at Dartmouth College and president of the African-Caribbean Institute. Rodger Yeager is professor of political science, adjunct professor of African history, and director of international studies at West Virginia University.

From the Back Cover

Kenya is one of Africa's most important and controversial nations. It has simultaneously been heralded for its political stability and economic success and criticized as a wellspring of elitism and class exploitation. Kenya remains a close ally of the West and a symbol of capitalism in Africa, and it occupies a position of strategic importance to the Middle East and the Indian Ocean. Yet all of these distinctions are now coming under question in the fourth decade of independence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0813382017
• ISBN 13: 9780813382012
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 254