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In December 1963, Kenya formally declared its independence yet it would take a year of intense negotiations for it to transform into a presidential republic, with Jomo Kenyatta as its first president. Archival records of the independence negotiations, however, reveal that neither the British colonial authorities nor the Kenyan political elite foresaw the formation of a presidential regime that granted one man almost limitless executive powers. Even fewer expected Jomo Kenyatta to remain president until his death in 1978. Power and the Presidency in Kenya reconstructs Kenyatta's political biography, exploring the links between his ability to emerge as an uncontested leader and the deeper colonial and postcolonial history of the country. In describing Kenyatta's presidential style as discreet and distant, Angelo shows how the burning issues of land decolonisation, the increasing centralisation of executive powers and the repression of political oppositions shaped Kenyatta's politics. Telling the story of state building through political biography, Angelo reveals how historical contingency and structural developments shaped both a man and an institution - the president and the preside

Kenyatta, Jomo. --- Jomo Kenyatta --- Jūmū Kīnyātā --- Kenyatta, Mzee Jomo --- Kīnyātā, Jūmū --- Kenya --- Politics and government --- History --- HISTORY / Africa / General

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This book is the first systematic political history of Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya’s founding president. The first of two parts, it explores Kenyatta’s formative years in nationalist activism in Kenya and Britain, the complex links between colonial and British intelligence services and Kenyatta’s career and the political compromise he forged between Kenya and Britain. This book draws on primary sources to analyze this compromise, which marked his transformation from "leader to darkness and death" to the most beloved post-colonial African leader in the West. .

Kenyatta, Jomo. --- Kenya --- Politics and government. --- Jomo Kenyatta --- Jūmū Kīnyātā --- Kenyatta, Mzee Jomo --- Kīnyātā, Jūmū --- Africa, Sub-Saharan-History. --- Imperialism. --- Great Britain-History. --- Africa-Politics and government. --- History of Sub-Saharan Africa. --- Imperialism and Colonialism. --- History of Britain and Ireland. --- African Politics. --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Africa, Sub-Saharan—History. --- Great Britain—History. --- Africa—Politics and government.