A Place at the Table

The Political Integration of Muslims in Kenya, 1963–2007

Bibliographic Data

ID9352009
AuthorsMohamed Bakari (FATIH UNIVERSITY, BÜYÜKÇEKMECE, ISTANBUL, TURKEY, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume4
Issue1
Pages15-48
Publication date2013-04-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueIslamic Africa (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0803-0685 • E-ISSN: 0806-7120
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.5192/21540993040115
OpenAlexW1549602725
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited1

Kenyan Muslims are well integrated within the Kenyan political system. This process of political integration gained momentum when President Daniel Arap Moi regained power after the aborted military coup attempt by the Kenya Air Force in August 1982. His increasingly authoritarian rule faced a challenge from the younger generation of politicians who began to challenge his legitimacy because of the loss of basic democratic rights through mass demonstrations and civil disobedience. A new generation of Muslim politicians and activists joined the fray. This new Muslim leadership was the product of social transformations that were ushered in by new educational opportunities that presented themselves immediately after Kenya gained independence. Muslims were able to be integrated gradually within the political system through social mobility and pragmatic policies of Jomo Kenyatta and later through the politics of cronyism and co-option under Moi. With the widening of political space and the new politics of inclusion, Muslims have now been completely integrated within Kenyan society

African studies · Authoritarianism · Cronyism · Democracy · Independence (probability theory · Kenya · Legitimacy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · African history and culture analysis · Gender Studies · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · Law

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