The Politics of the Independence of Kenya

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3911635
AutoresRobert L Tignor, Keith Kyle (University of Ulster)
Año1999
Volumen32
Número1
Páginas147
Fecha de publicación1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe International Journal of African Historical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0361-7882 • E-ISSN: 2326-3016
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/220820
OpenAlexW1996344787
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas21
Referencias citadas3

Although Iain Macleod is fully entitled to the credit for breaking the constitutional deadlock over Kenya by clearing the path to African rule, his subsequent actions were dictated by fear of British public opinion. He felt unable to risk the Governor's threat to resign if he were to be stopped from calling Jomo Kenyatta ‘a leader to darkness and death’. Macleod's stonewalling over Kenyatta's release resulted in sending the African majority party into opposition and allowing the minority party to insist on its own embarrassingly complicated constitution. The situation looked so desperate by 1962 that, fearing another Congo, Harold Macmillan wanted to ask the UN to take over control of Kenya. At the last minute two men, Jomo Kenyatta and Malcolm MacDonald, saved Britain and Kenya from a great imperial fiasco

Kenya · Political science · Politics · Statistics · African history and culture studies · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Law · Mathematics